[UPDATE] Since this article has recently started receiving a high amount of traffic, I want to point out that the information below was true as of this article’s publication (September 10, 2010) and that more up to date data can be found in the Lineage 2 category.
Lineage II is one of NCsoft’s biggest hits, scoring #3 worldwide in NCsoft’s sales lists for Q1 2010, and having the benefit of being so good that addicted kidults are willing to sue over it. Granted, most of Lineage II’s sales and subscribers come from Korea while over in North America and Europe, not so much.
So it is with great…I would imagine joy that NCsoft announced that the North American and European Lineage II servers will be shut down and accounts will be merged into two servers (one NA, one EU). As part of the merging process, any character under level 20 that has been inactive for a year will be deleted. In addition, players will only be able to keep seven characters from all servers combined, and those with the lowest experience will be deleted, so it is advised that players move items from low level to high level accounts, and figure out which they want to keep and which they would like to delete.
The merger hits October 5th (reflected in the MMO Fallout calendar, so you don’t forget). This move consolidates five US servers into one, and three EU servers into one. There is currently no information on how clans, alliances, Olympiads, castles, etc will play out.
MMO Fallout 