NCsoft has revealed that it could be merging servers for its MMO Aion: The Tower of Eternity in North America and Europe, because of dropping server populations.

A timetable and technique to the mergers can be revealed "in the coming weeks," producer Chris Hager mentioned in his newest letter toward local community (via Massively).

"Some from the particular concerns you've informed us about cope with problems finding groups in game, owning options to contribute toward all round server economy, and getting in a placement to collect powerful adequate forces to get satisfaction from the carry out fixture content," Hager said.

"After reviewing all from the game, character, and server data we found that particular level ranges or courses experienced healthful numbers, but throughout ALL level ranges and professions the majority of our servers didn't have perfect populations.

"I don't relish the believed of mergers... However, as quickly since it is complete you could observe improvements in every sole from the brand new server economies, an abundance of avid gamers to set and run instances with, relatively a few awesome Legions to sign up for or people nowadays to type new kinds with, jointly with a extra tightly knit community. When all is mentioned and done, Aion can be considered a an ideal offer better fixture merely because from the server merge," he finished.

Hager also revealed how the game's subsequent patch, update 1.9, will go reside on 2nd June. The patch grants new skills to every sole character class, overhauls questing and speeds up levelling.

A character send service, which NCsoft first announced shortly quickly after the game's start in September last year, will go reside in mid-June and be costless for just about any limited period, he said.

Finally, the 2.0 patch, which adds a tremendous quantity of new content articles to Aion, is headed for just about any fall launch in North America and Europe, based on Hager.