Posted June 29, 2020 I thought the dev team's initial reasoning behind adding new islands was to attract new players and have the server named "Steam" to help with SEO (Search Engine Optimization.) I don't know what the pvp server will be named. It won't be Wild. We already had a Wild server they re-named Chaos. And they have never reintroduced a formerly used server name. But my vote is that they will call the new pve server "Steam." Is it cool and exciting? No. Is it what I would have named it? No. But if I had a guess based off what I read in Rolf's initial post discussing the new server - it seems that he would name it Steam so that he can try and pull in Steam Players. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted June 29, 2020 53 minutes ago, Atrayu said: I thought the dev team's initial reasoning behind adding new islands was to attract new players and have the server named "Steam" to help with SEO (Search Engine Optimization.) I don't know what the pvp server will be named. It won't be Wild. We already had a Wild server they re-named Chaos. And they have never reintroduced a formerly used server name. But my vote is that they will call the new pve server "Steam." Is it cool and exciting? No. Is it what I would have named it? No. But if I had a guess based off what I read in Rolf's initial post discussing the new server - it seems that he would name it Steam so that he can try and pull in Steam Players. They are currently asking for name suggestions so the name wont be 'Steam'. That's a given. What does SEO have to do with server names anyways? You can't search for the game by server name. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted June 29, 2020 2 hours ago, Angelklaine said: They are currently asking for name suggestions so the name wont be 'Steam'. That's a given. What does SEO have to do with server names anyways? You can't search for the game by server name. Thanks for the info. I thought I read some place, reviewing Rolf's initial talk of new servers. No worries though. I just found the post from Retro. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted June 30, 2020 (edited) 6 hours ago, Atrayu said: I thought the dev team's initial reasoning behind adding new islands was to attract new players and have the server named "Steam" to help with SEO (Search Engine Optimization.) .... But if I had a guess based off what I read in Rolf's initial post discussing the new server - it seems that he would name it Steam so that he can try and pull in Steam Players. Rolf likely meant people searching for "Steam Sandbox Open World Crafting Building Farming Multiplayer Games With Cows And Ships ... And Raiding" People put "STEAM" into their search for game genres now all the time. Server names have nothing to do with it. If a game is not on Steam, it will never pop up on many people's searches. Edited June 30, 2020 by Brash_Endeavors Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted June 30, 2020 That was what I thought I read from his initial posting. Thanks Brash. I'm sorry if I didn't make my original post easier to understand. I had a couple names I submitted: Mythic, Sunrise, and maybe a couple others. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 5, 2020 (edited) On 6/29/2020 at 10:59 AM, Atrayu said: I thought the dev team's initial reasoning behind adding new islands was to attract new players and have the server named "Steam" to help with SEO (Search Engine Optimization.) That would be a harder way to attract new players because the word "steam" when attributed to games is a competitive phrase on Google. Steam players looking for an MMO would probably search by tag within Steam (which is terribly flawed, sadly). On 6/29/2020 at 5:54 PM, Brash_Endeavors said: If a game is not on Steam, it will never pop up on many people's searches. Google does not look for true statements, it looks for words and phrases. For example, you can search for asherons call steam and get 500,000+ result even though the game was cancelled and was never available on Steam. And now this page will be added to those results the next time the Google Bot crawls this page. Edited July 5, 2020 by Whane 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 9, 2020 Steam PvE - Mist Steam PvP - Scald Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 11, 2020 Maybe I missed it, but it is now 11 July GMT. Have the server names been announced? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 11, 2020 4 minutes ago, TheTrickster said: Maybe I missed it, but it is now 11 July GMT. Have the server names been announced? I haven't seen anything, but dates in Wurm are estimates. Just ballparks... lul Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 11, 2020 Well so much for the 10th being name day lol....30mins EST USA time til the 11th Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 11, 2020 Windows ofOpportunity Undecided which would be pvp or pve. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 13, 2020 In light of the situation, I have a couple more suggestions. Apologies if these have already been made. PvP - Vengence PvE - ServerMcSurFace Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 13, 2020 11 minutes ago, Gumbo said: In light of the situation, I have a couple more suggestions. Apologies if these have already been made. PvP - Vengence PvE - ServerMcSurFace Why not ServerMcSurFaceVengence? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 13, 2020 FightyMcStabStab and carebearsville. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 13, 2020 i like Liberation as a name, not sure who tossed that one in but i like it. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 15, 2020 PvE - Macroville PvP - Autoaim 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 17, 2020 PvE - Harmony PvP - Defiance 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 17, 2020 On 7/13/2020 at 7:06 PM, Snoo said: FightyMcStabStab and Carebearsville. Even if these do not win (how could they not??) they will always be the official names in my head cannon (and probably every post I make from today on about them) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 19, 2020 --+ If those are actually going to be the final names it works for me. Better than the original names. But could just be a placeholder. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites