The new server offers faster connection speeds and optimised event times for players throughout the region.

The original server, Albion West, remains active, and both servers share the same free-to-play model with an optional per-character subscription.

Players can use a single account to access the servers. Both servers are not region-locked, and all players worldwide are free to play on either or both. Both Albion East and West servers will have the same game client and identical game content is available on both.

The server undergoes daily maintenance at 23:00 UTC, which corresponds to 0700 hrs China Standard Time and 0800 hrs Japan/Korea Standard Time.

Sandbox listed Albion East’s features:
1. Improved connection speeds and ping for the whole Asia-Pacific region.
2. A new and untouched version of the game
3. A game world that is fully separate and independent from the existing Albion West server.
Timings of game and server events (territory battles, Crystal League, Faction Warfare, maintenance, etc.) that are optimised for the region.
4. Founder Packs for Albion East remain available until 30 April 2023 with rewards claimable on either server. These rewards include exclusive items that will never be available again, along with valuable Gold and Premium.

Moreover, Sandbox Interactive has announced a special Twitch Drop campaign to celebrate the launch of Albion East, which will run until 29 March 2023. Players can earn exclusive chests with brand-new items by watching any Twitch channel offering regular Albion Twitch Drops.

During this period, campaigns will run daily instead of weekly, and to participate, players must link their Twitch and Albion accounts.

All players can participate and earn rewards, regardless of whether they are part of a guild. This time around, rewards include new Direwolf Skins, in addition to Fame Boosts, Battle Mounts and Avatars. The winners on each server will get their own custom statue in the Conquerors' Hall.

This first appeared in the subscription newsletter CommsWire on 28 March 2023.