Mythic has announced that starting on February 9, players on the Iron Rock and Volkar servers of Warhammer Online in North America will be allowed to transfer their characters free to Gorfang, while European gamers are allowed to transfer their toons from Carroberg to Drakenwald for free. This is being done for the purposes of shutting those three servers down and concentrating populations on the remaining servers.
”The game play experience of our customers is something we highly value. We don’t make changes like this lightly,” said Mythic. “A lot of metrics and analysis accompanies this type of decision. We feel that these changes will help to ensure that server options continue to facilitate that best RvR experience out there. Thanks for playing and see you on the battlefield!”
The health of an MMO can best be examined by whether it gains or drops servers, moreso than subscriber numbers. This is not a good sign for Mythic, with the Warhammer 40,000 version of the MMO still in development.