The day is finally here that will change Dungeons and Dragons Online forever. SSG is activating three new 64-bit servers this afternoon and encouraging all players to pack up from the soon-to-close 32-bit realms onto one of the newer ones.

Play DDO for freeThe studio posted a guide for the transfer process, where players need to hit a button to “pack” up a character, move it to a 64-bit server, and unpack it. The three new realms — Shadowdale (US), Thrane (US), and Moonsea (EU) — will join Cormyr to become the four permanent DDO servers after this summer, as all the older shards will be taken offline after August 31st.

As for the timing, a studio rep posted this yesterday: “We went through several iterations of tomorrow’s rollout plan before ultimately deciding that a clean 2:00 pm Eastern start worked the best for the widest number of people. It will be early to mid evening for much of Europe, afternoon East Coast into mid-morning West Coast and so on.”

Source: DDO UpdateApparently, SSG has decided to delay. “”We are taking a pause on plans to open the new worlds and offer transfers today,” the studio now says. “The worlds will be reopening like usual and we’ll work on something like a game build to address a few issues that came up during our pre-open checks.” (Thanks, Mick!)