Tera downsizing to three servers this month

Tera's developers have announced in their fall producer letter that the game's 11 existing servers will be merged into three due to lower than acceptable player activity. On September 18th, Tera's four PvP servers will be combined into one, as will its six PvE servers. The only server not affected by merges will be the official roleplaying PvE server, Celestial Hills, which will remain as-is.

A detailed FAQ lays out how everything will be going down. Players with more than eight characters on a single server after the merge will have to delete some until they get down to eight. Duplicate character names will have to be claimed on a first come, first served basis. All Vanarch statuses will be reset, and the candidate registration fees refunded. Post-merge, the race for Vanarchy is likely to become much more competitive.

Len Hafer is a freelancer and lifelong PC gamer with a specialty in strategy, RPGs, horror, and survival games. A chance encounter with Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness changed her life forever. Today, her favorites include the grand strategy games from Paradox Interactive like Crusader Kings and Europa Universalis, and thought-provoking, story-rich RPGs like Persona 5 and Disco Elysium. She also loves history, hiking in the mountains of Colorado, and heavy metal music.