It's a sale, they sold to Ascension, someone got paid
Ascension are their bosses now
It's not some kind of merge on equal footing, the epoch guys took the bag, and probably all should be fired anyway, as they can't run a server
All server infrastructure (hardware, performance, security, account handling, anti-cheat, etc.) is now 100% run by Ascension
Epoch is now embedded inside Ascension’s ecosystem — they’ve lost operational autonomy, and if Ascension wanted to, they could effectively control or even replace Epoch’s leadership down the line
- Accounts are being moved to Ascension’s systems and must use Ascension’s launcher. That’s a big operational shift — players will now go thro
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