The Horizons Europe Team have just posted this on the log in page....

[i]Dear players,

as you well know after the consolidation of the North American shards we have decided to keep all our shards alive as the situation was not forcing us to take the same action here in Europe. We've spent the past few weeks evaluating how things were evolving on the two sides of the ocean and we put together some considerations.

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