Board Thread:Online Discussion/@comment-7153552-20130403223900/@comment-7153552-20130422202245

All very well made points, Darynael! The giant server or mega server or whatever it's called for the game at hand makes great use of that, plus there's a future-planning part to it as well. Anyone that follows MMOs can attest that the nail in the coffin for them is when they have to shut down servers. What a mega-server does is makes it so they can open and close the space they need as they need it without displacing characters or upsetting the general ebb and flow of a server-space. This means that if they have a very low number of players at the front-side they can close down some space without shutting down whole realms, which doesn't look like a loss in the way it did with Star Wars: The Old Republic. It's the same reason WoW is trying to slowly convert their servers into some rigged version of a mega server by allowing cross realm zones for under populated quest areas. This way they don't show their true losses and they can keep those servers running for the time being.