VO 1.8.345 includes:

- Removed older, deprecated method of creating account from within the game client.
- Other background changes to make possible an upcoming server migration.

Not the most exciting update, but we've been really busy with a couple of tasks. One is that we're trying to address a number of recently-reported problems with the MacOS X version of the game, when using the new GL4 renderer. This is proving tricky and time-consuming to debug, as we're finding some surprising and unpredictable OS behaviour.

To our non-Mac users: please have patience. The lack of content updates in the meantime is not that fun, but we really need to squash these kinds of major bugs (across all platforms and versions) prior to the 1.9 release.

Additionally, as mentioned in the release notes above, we're also working our way up to a major server migration. We hope for part of that to wrap next week, which will mark a major improvement in our infrastructure. There'll be an announcement when it goes live, but it's one of those things where.. if all goes well, you won't be able to tell anything changed at all. Nonetheless, take our word for it that this is much-needed (a bit overdue, even), and we'll write more about some of the specific improvements after it goes live.

Have a great weekend, everyone!