Original Jumpgate Servers To Stay Open

25 Nov 2008 at 13:14:35 by

In an interview with IncGamers, lead producer of Jumpgate: Evolution, Hermann Peterscheck has confirmed that the original servers for Jumpgate will remain open.

"I feel bad turning an MMO off because you’re destroying a world that people have invested in," he said discussing why the decision was made to leave them open.

"Unless there is some compelling business reason for doing that, I don’t believe there is any benefit in switching off a server."

With gamers investing time and effort into a game, Peterscheck believes that not only would it be a shame to turn the servers off, but it would also "very cold" and that there is "a lot of pain in just turning off a whole world with a switch of a button."

It's expected that Jumpgate players who have been playing since the late '90s will migrate to the new iteration of the game, but if they  chose not to, then there will still be somewhere familiar for them to go.

Read the full interview with Peterscheck here.

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