General Discussion

NCsoft has announced that they will be merging several of Lineage II's North American servers because of earlier migrations to higher population servers from servers which already had relatively low populations.

Since we opened server transfers in February this year, we’ve all seen a noticeable shift in what servers the Lineage II population is playing on. Many players transferred from lower population servers to higher population servers in the name of greater competition, which is in essence what Lineage II is about. This has left us with a few servers with low enough populations that the communities on those servers have expressed their concern.

After looking at the servers, we agree that some changes need to be made to help us maintain the very highest quality Lineage II experience for all of our players. As such, we will be combining a few of our North American servers in early July. With the exciting changes coming in the next Chaotic Throne installment (which we plan to launch later this summer), we believe that merging some servers now will create an even more active, competitive Lineage II community.

We aim to make this as smooth and painless a transition as possible for our players and feel this will balance and revitalize the overall server populations.

Please see the forum posting here for all the details.

Read more here.

yes i saw this on the offecial server a week ago. the us server did need allot of attention

I'm glad, their subscriptions have stayed the same, just that we release of character transfers most went to  Bartz, Teon, and Franz.

Next thing they will be announcing that they are either dropping or removing subscription rates. hehe

Originally posted by kitsunegirl

Next thing they will be announcing that they are either dropping or removing subscription rates. hehe

There are around 90,000 active accounts still, it's unlikely :P

Originally posted by kitsunegirl

Next thing they will be announcing that they are either dropping or removing subscription rates. hehe

Nah, it's not that type of game. At least in the States/Europe.

It also has a pretty steady subscriber base. If you look at the quarterly results it will list the numbers.

Things had felt a tad bit relaxed. Should be interesting

I would love to see a non-grinder Lineage 2. I love damn near everything about the game, but I can't take the grind.

Originally posted by skeaser

I would love to see a non-grinder Lineage 2. I love damn near everything about the game, but I can't take the grind.

Well, it's possible. It has already been stated in an interview with some of the gm's (a bit ago0 that they were "looking into" different types of alternate rules servers. No eta on this though.

Originally posted by Ephimero

Originally posted by kitsunegirl

Next thing they will be announcing that they are either dropping or removing subscription rates. hehe

There are around 90,000 active accounts still, it's unlikely :P

and thats only eu and na. asia has a ton more

Pretty easy to understand the reason behind this, grinding is an Asian delight.  Not so here in the US or in the EU either.