On July 25, the developer of Bless Online, Neowiz, will merge the existing servers into 2 servers per region. However, in light of the declining player numbers, players are hoping for a different solution.
From 15 servers to 4
This is the plan: At the end of June, Neowiz announced that the existing 15 servers in EU and NA would be consolidated into 2 servers per region by the end of July in a major server merger to counteract the declining player numbers. Bless players had repeatedly called for a server merge in the weeks leading up to this.
Initially, only a few servers were planned for Bless. However, due to the large influx of players at launch, additional servers were opened. They now wanted to close these again.
At the time of the announcement, on June 27, just over 6000 players were playing Bless Online daily. With an equal distribution of players onto the newly created 4 servers, approximately 1500 players would be playing together per server, and most players were looking forward to the server merge. However, some were critical of having to wait almost a month for the merge.
Less is more
Declining player numbers. Nearly a month has passed since the announcement, and the server merger will take place this week on July 25. However, in the last month, the player numbers have continued to decline. Instead of 6000 players, only 2700 players (as of July 23, 2018) are logging in daily to Bless Online.
To combat the declining player numbers, players are therefore requesting in the official Discord channel of Bless Online that Neowiz operates only one server per region. If the existing 2700 players are spread across 4 servers, each server would have approximately 675 players. These players would then be split again between the two factions. Each faction would have only about 337 players.
For PvP modes, such as the Peninsular War, there would theoretically be enough players. However, if player numbers continue to fall, it will become lonely on the servers.
Will Neowiz listen to the players?
The future of Bless. Regardless of the request to limit the servers to one per region, the community has other suggestions for how the server merger should proceed:
- Some players want a server reset. For them, the server merger is the ideal opportunity to combine the existing servers into one while simultaneously opening an entirely new server.
- Other players suggest a cross-server matchmaking for PvP and PvE, allowing players to play together regardless of the servers.
Maybe the Assassin class can attract players. Bless: New class is coming soon – This is what the Assassin can do.
