Let me be clear: No where have I said that Amazon isn’t capable of more. I just think the people asking for a refund 12 hours after launch are pretty entitled crybabies with zero concept of not receiving everything they want the moment they want it.
Seriously. Its a game. its a FUN game. The queue times will be fixed eventually. I’ll eat my shoe if they aren’t. And once they are fixed people will likely play this game for years. And someone wants a refund after 12 hours because they can’t get in? They’re going to quit just like that? Chill out…
I did not say it’s going to happen on a launch day. I mean two, three, six months after.
I think their plan was to support what is meant to support 2 years down the road. In the first few weeks numbers are usually inflated. That is how gaming scene is right now.
I HOPE for the game and for how much we love it, that it’s simply not true and we just keep on growing from this point I’d love to see numbers like 12 million concurrent players online in an mmo once again.
I could care less about playing with friends atm …there will be option to move servers …problem is that i cannot play … at least not with same char on same shard .
If you have played in the first day of launch, you would understand why 2k cap is enough. There’s a main story mob that you need to kill and there’s nearly 50 people around it what do you do then ? Try and try again for an hour before you get it. Imagine double, triple that. Game’s resources are more limited than the server I think.
Mining Iron? Nah bro, there’s 50 more people going after it.
I honestly think what they are doing is spreading people across zones before increasing the limit cap. So that the next wave of 2k goes again and the others are already in the upper level zones. This way you avoid big congestion.
I have explored entire map and lots of secret areas in Beta …there is lots of places to add resources if needed …could be problem with quests …Once they implement that secret area to the north into game ,lots will be different …but atm servers can’t support more than 2500 to maximum 3000 without breaking game for peeps on that server.
Even retailers tell you how many pre-orders they received…
All the needed to do is simple math.
Take the D-A-C-H Region (GErmany, Austria, Switerland ) do you know how many DE/EN Server they started with? 8…
16k Slots for a region where alone Germany has 82 Million people and if we assume just 0.01% of them are interested that number still is five times what they put out. They knew they hype, they knew how often their adds rolled out, how many they seen and especially how many units were sold where.
They tried to cheapskate, got caught out by it knowingly and well aware of it. Amazon tried to invest as little as possible in infrastructure and caused the issue all by themselves.
Congrats you have no friends that play the game already. I don’t play MMOs alone. Unfortunately, I need to go where my guild is. It’s the blessing and the bane of MMO infrastrucutre.
If I know anything about how large tech organizations think (hint: I do) the thought process is this:
“Okay AGS. This is our first really big adventure into the world of game development. You need to hit xyz KPI’s if you want any additional funding for future projects.”
*looks at KPI’s and sees profitability requirements
“Hmmm… okay guys. We’re going to have to be conservative and controlled with our launch. If we break the bank here then New World and AGS are dead in the water before they even begin.”
You could have all 82 million Germans begging to play on day one. They are no match for a dude at amazon with a finance degree and the power to shut down the entire studio if they don’t post a strong enough margin. Oh and that guy is a total idiot who doesn’t actually know anything about running businesses. He just REALLY likes spreadsheets.
dude EU servers after 2pm all have que times ALL Of them eather u play US server with 200 + ping or wait 13 to 15 hours in a que because when u wait u get a error that restarts ur que again and u wait and wait and wait and wait + some of us have friends that we made on beta and playing together in a company picking a different server is not even an option " and im not saying we picked the most popular server there we picked the one with less ppl and no streamer and we still have 3-5k que
I’d love to see numbers like 12 million concurrent players online in an mmo once again.