Hi everyone,

I would like to bring to the attention of all of MMORPG.com a very important piece of news. A great game, Dark Age of Camelot, is pressed for a major comeback in the coming weeks, and here is why:

1) Soon, ALL old servers will become unplayable archives, saving only character data.

2) A FREE transfer will be provided for ALL characters ever created in the history of the game. The transfer will be to a NEW fresh server called Ywain. This server is normal, however, bots are now less effective, allowing for better competition.

3) The transfer is forced and will consolidate the players into one jam packed server.

4) The transfer will restore the fun, community, and best PVP ever known to the MMO world.

In closing, if you remember your old accounts, and want to be a part of this, reopen. All your old characters will be available for transfer for FREE. If you have never played DAoC, this is the perfect time to get involved.

Once again, this is a big development for the MMO world as a whole, as it will finally give those searching for true competitive PVP a home with directed, group based, skillful PVP.

Come and join the realm war today, with XP bonuses, and other boosts, remember any old characters and new ones yet to be made will be able to transfer.

Thanks,

John

FOR ALBION!!

Where is the news link and who is running the Ywain server?

could u give me the webpage where u found this i have searched everywhere can't find anything baout this. I would really come back if they did this any proof this is real would be great.

I went and found this link on the Camelot Herald; www.camelotherald.com/devblog/news_article.php

    So basically what you are saying is that the game has reached the point where they need to force everyone to go to one server because the pop is too low to keep the other servers alive?? I dont think most of us consider a forced character transfer a "rebirth".......

Originally posted by Theocritus

    So basically what you are saying is that the game has reached the point where they need to force everyone to go to one server because the pop is too low to keep the other servers alive?? I dont think most of us consider a forced character transfer a "rebirth".......

Some people have not considered returning to DAOC whose characters are on the Bossiney and Killbury clusters due to their low populations.  Many, like myself, have already rerolled on Devon due to its high population.  With one server on new hardware, even with current numbers, there will be an average peak of 3000 similtaneous players on per day.

This, combined with proposed changes to potions to decrease the difference between buffed and unbuffed players, will attract even more players.  It also means that Mythics overheads are less, and increases the longevity of this great game :)

Here is the link to the news: http://www.camelotherald.com/devblog/news_article.php?storyid=24

 Some of the specifics are found in a post on the official Dark Age of Camelot forums (VN):
 

http://vnboards.ign.com/devon_cluster/b22958/111067773/p1/?93

"I've gathered and compiled some of the common questions I've seen about character transfers, along with answers taken from various VN and Facebook posts (by Lori), and put them in one post for people to find more easily.

Here ya go:

Will there be incentives for Devon players to transfer to the new server, Ywain?
More than that, the transfer will be forced. All active characters on Devon, Killibury, and Bossiney will be moved to Ywain. Those old clusters will be archived to allow returning players to transfer as well.

Will it cost money to transfer?
No, free of charge.

Will the new server, Ywain, allow access to all 3 realms?
Yes, and there will be a realm timer (undetermined amount of time yet).

What is being done to allow people that have more than 10 characters per realm, across all current servers, to transfer all of their characters?
"We are going to attempt to cluster our lobby, which means the only thing clustered is the entry point (e.g. character select). If it works out, and we believe it will, then this will allow you to transfer more characters."

What exactly will we be able to transfer over to the new server?
"In theory, everything transfers, items, money, rps, houses, guilds (at least associated with the guild leader, and yes, that means fixing the auto promote), etc."

What do you mean decreasing the gap between players with and without buffbots?
"Shearable, "yellow con" buff potions are currently the favored direction in this discussion."

That's pretty much it for now, if I find more I will update it while I can still edit the post."

When Mythic do this I know I will be coming back to the game. Also I know that alot more will be coming back to the game. Because there is no game out now that can compare to DAOC PVP when theres alot of people online. I just hope Mythic have a updated engine running the new server so there won't be alot of crashing in RVR.

Well Phase III of this merger/transfer thing is Origins is back and will be released.

Great news indeed. However I will hold off on reupping my old act/s till after I see the new server going live. I reupped in anticipation of Origins and well we know how that turned out.

Will this new server Ywain allow old EU accounts to be re-opened?

Or just US?

Ya its odd cuz when they first mentioned this.. it wasn't about consolidating down to 2 clusters.  I say 2 because I guess the co-op server will stay up.

The original announcement was that they will open this new server and give the option to transfer there.  They mentioned for Bossiney players they MIGHT keep a mirror of your character in case you didn't like the new server.

I never saw a different announcement... but on CamelotVault I saw them mention all the other clusters would basicly be shut down (just used as a data source for people who came back and hadn't transferred to the new server).

So even this has already changed... compared to the original announcement.  At that time all the clusters were going to remain fully active  and the new server was just an option for those who didn't want to level to 50 again.

/shrug

I think I would rather play a totally new server (Origins).   Guess it depends on how the action looks (bored to death).

Originally posted by Amafi

Will this new server Ywain allow old EU accounts to be re-opened?

 

Or just US?

I can't imagine it will allow EU-accounts, it is a different publisher here in Europe, even if there are only about 10 players left on the english speaking servers...

I will reopen my old account to play this old great game once again. I've played on and off since release and I still say this is the best rvr-oriented game made so far. I know there aren't many players left but I intend to give it a last shot when theres still enough around to give me that familiar thrill in rvr areas.

I have played Dark Age on and off since day 1 (litterally) and I would much rather have a new server like Orgins open up.

Originally posted by Amafi

Will this new server Ywain allow old EU accounts to be re-opened?

 

Or just US?

GOA.

Need I say more.