Colwyn
04-12-2006, 12:30 AM
SOE Fan Faire 2006 on Ten Ton Hammer (http://eq2.tentonhammer.com/index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=display&ceid=777)
The next question that came up from Kendricke was asking about the recent server merges, and more specifically the "suprise merge" of the SOE East servers into the US. Mawie asked about the truth of the merge and Gallenite was of course ready to answer. There had been a press release in early March regarding the closing of SOE East and there could have been a little bit more communication regarding it. The burning question that had been in my mind, was why did SOE East close? Today, I got my answer.
According to Gallenite, the company in question ran the localized Chinese/Taiwanese version of Lineage and were a very good company. The problem that arose was the rate at which EverQuest 2 is updated. The company was running EQ2 in three different languages, and would have to bring on a much larger staff to continue to support the game. The company let SOE know, and they decided to transition their dedicated players to our own US servers.
As a tangent, the problem of the boxes in spatial chat resulting from these transferring players was brought up. Dymus assured everyone that there was some post translation coding errors that were going to go away next live update.
The next question that came up from Kendricke was asking about the recent server merges, and more specifically the "suprise merge" of the SOE East servers into the US. Mawie asked about the truth of the merge and Gallenite was of course ready to answer. There had been a press release in early March regarding the closing of SOE East and there could have been a little bit more communication regarding it. The burning question that had been in my mind, was why did SOE East close? Today, I got my answer.
According to Gallenite, the company in question ran the localized Chinese/Taiwanese version of Lineage and were a very good company. The problem that arose was the rate at which EverQuest 2 is updated. The company was running EQ2 in three different languages, and would have to bring on a much larger staff to continue to support the game. The company let SOE know, and they decided to transition their dedicated players to our own US servers.
As a tangent, the problem of the boxes in spatial chat resulting from these transferring players was brought up. Dymus assured everyone that there was some post translation coding errors that were going to go away next live update.