New World Boasts Over 700K Concurrent Players On Steam While Log In Issues Persist Through The Morni

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New World Boasts Over 700K Concurrent Players On Steam While Log In Issues Persist Through The Morning | MMORPG.com

To say New World was highly anticipated is an understatement. Launching this morning, New World has seen the normal MMO launch day woes of long log-in queues and server instability, thanks in part to over 700K players trying to hit Amazon's servers conccurently right now.

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Groqstrong

I have a feeling it will persist for the next few days. Its gonna be worse when ppl get home from work.

lotrlore

Groqstrong said:

I have a feeling it will persist for the next few days. Its gonna be worse when westcoasters get home from work.

As a West Coaster working from home right now (and have been sitting staring at a queue screen since 8am) I'm dreading this, especially when I have to log off to get my kid from school.

GregorMcgregor

500k in a queue! So glad I dodged this bullet! /phew

Tiller

I don't know why I always forget about launch day queue issues..."Think I'll log in and play a bit, maybe not"

Asm0deus

https://newworldstatus.com/

Scot

The global names and staggered time zones for launch are bizarre, the streamers just icing on a cake of player frustration. But as always these issues will resolve themselves after a few of days, well apart from the global names which will continue to be a pain for players.

Groqstrong

lotrlore said:

Groqstrong said:

I have a feeling it will persist for the next few days. Its gonna be worse when westcoasters get home from work.

As a West Coaster working from home right now (and have been sitting staring at a queue screen since 8am) I'm dreading this, especially when I have to log off to get my kid from school.

Ha I made a deal with the wifey today to pick the kid up from school so I could get home early. I feel like it will be in vain.

lotrlore

Groqstrong said:

lotrlore said:

Groqstrong said:

I have a feeling it will persist for the next few days. Its gonna be worse when westcoasters get home from work.

As a West Coaster working from home right now (and have been sitting staring at a queue screen since 8am) I'm dreading this, especially when I have to log off to get my kid from school.

Ha I made a deal with the wifey today to pick the kid up from school so I could get home early. I feel like it will be in vain.

I've now spent 213 minutes in the same queue. Godspeed when you finally hop in.

Warlyx

Asm0deus said:

https://newworldstatus.com/

Players online :419.673
players on queue: 346.759

LOL

JeroKane

Warlyx said:

Asm0deus said:

https://newworldstatus.com/

Players online :419.673
players on queue: 346.759

LOL

Yup! In a nutshell. Luckily I did not spend more than 2 hours in a queue, so could still get a refund from Steam.

Will check back in a couple weeks how many people are still left, if I am going to bother buying it again.

Amazon really screwed the pooch on this one. Especially since they run AWS, you would have thought they have more than enough hardware to run some more servers.

I fully understand you don't want to open up too many servers, BUT!

1. Over 75% of your current playerbase sitting in a queue is EPIC FAIL. No other way around it.

2. They already have a Cross Server group systems in place, so they can easily merge servers in the future. Hence the Global name lock system.

So again, no harm opening up more servers so people don't have to sit in an eternal queue!
This is a sure fire way to create the largest refund bonanza on Steam right now and tank your review score along with it. /shrug

Asm0deus

Guys its your prerogative but why even buy a onine game like this if long queue's and day one shenanigans is a reason for you to refund...I mean why even bother buying it in the first place since we all know this kind of launch is par for the course and to be expected?

I mean in the grand scheme of things it not the worse launch ever cause shit is really smooth when you do get in from what the streamers are saying etc.

SKurj

not bothered... managed to get 2 characters created, and even login once (queue was only 1 at the time)
but I won't be bothering to try and play for a few days.

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JeroKane

Asm0deus said:

Guys its your prerogative but why even buy a onine game like this if long queue's and day one shenanigans is a reason for you to refund...I mean why even bother buying it in the first place since we all know this kind of launch is par for the course and to be expected?

I mean in the grand scheme of things it not the worse launch ever cause shit is really smooth when you do get in from what the streamers are saying etc.

Because it's Amazon and they own and run AWS! A trillion dollar company and largest hosting provider on the planet!

If there is one thing they should be good at is hosting and server scaling!
There is literally no excuse here for having over 75% of the players sitting in hours long queues. Over 25% of the servers have over 20 hour queues even and the most popular ones (ones that opened first) .....hold it.... over 200+ hour queues.

This is not going away in a day or two. They need to remove the ridiculous 2000 player cap per server.
It's stupid that an MMO from 15+ years ago could run 10k+ player cap servers, but Amazon in 2021 cannot cope with more than 2000 per server.

Avanah

Actually skipping this Title since I prefer SOLO and PvE. I was in the Alphas and Betas but in the long term aspects End Game for NW is GUILD PVP which I have no interest in.

The lack of PvE at this time is enough to warrant waiting to maybe try it in the Future once PvE Content catches up to this gorgeous looking Game.

I wish all the NW Fans great fun and fortune.

Asm0deus

JeroKane said:

Asm0deus said:

Guys its your prerogative but why even buy a onine game like this if long queue's and day one shenanigans is a reason for you to refund...I mean why even bother buying it in the first place since we all know this kind of launch is par for the course and to be expected?

I mean in the grand scheme of things it not the worse launch ever cause shit is really smooth when you do get in from what the streamers are saying etc.

Because it's Amazon and they own and run AWS! A trillion dollar company and largest hosting provider on the planet!

If there is one thing they should be good at is hosting and server scaling!
There is literally no excuse here for having over 75% of the players sitting in hours long queues. Over 25% of the servers have over 20 hour queues even and the most popular ones (ones that opened first) .....hold it.... over 200+ hour queues.

This is not going away in a day or two. They need to remove the ridiculous 2000 player cap per server.
It's stupid that an MMO from 15+ years ago could run 10k+ player cap servers, but Amazon in 2021 cannot cope with more than 2000 per server.

The glodal name thing is stupid too alas welcome to mmo's and 2021!

Viper482

Glad I have matured beyond caring about getting into these games the first day. It's just not worth the stress.

Also wish I would have saved the post of the idiot who said only 10k people would be playing this game lol.

Hengist

JeroKane said:

Asm0deus said:

Guys its your prerogative but why even buy a onine game like this if long queue's and day one shenanigans is a reason for you to refund...I mean why even bother buying it in the first place since we all know this kind of launch is par for the course and to be expected?

I mean in the grand scheme of things it not the worse launch ever cause shit is really smooth when you do get in from what the streamers are saying etc.

Because it's Amazon and they own and run AWS! A trillion dollar company and largest hosting provider on the planet!

If there is one thing they should be good at is hosting and server scaling!
There is literally no excuse here for having over 75% of the players sitting in hours long queues. Over 25% of the servers have over 20 hour queues even and the most popular ones (ones that opened first) .....hold it.... over 200+ hour queues.

This is not going away in a day or two. They need to remove the ridiculous 2000 player cap per server.
It's stupid that an MMO from 15+ years ago could run 10k+ player cap servers, but Amazon in 2021 cannot cope with more than 2000 per server.

So you expected Amazon to have a better launch than 99% of every other MMO? Interesting standard...and not arguing with you.


They did drop a ton of new servers, and without instancing technology, there is no way a server is big enough to handle that many people...so is it design or their tech side you feel is at fault?

Hengist

Viper482 said:

Glad I have matured beyond caring about getting into these games the first day. It's just not worth the stress.

Also wish I would have saved the post of the idiot who said only 10k people would be playing this game lol.

I'm with you.


I mean seeing the server streamer list, I think it was pretty obvious that they were going to have massive overcrowding on multiple servers. Hearing from friends about the streamers who were complaining that they couldn't get in...had me giggling a bit. I mean really...you expected different?


Amazon was pretty smart to drop the 15-20 new servers a few hours after launch, but I'd be surprised if they don't make the decision to do at least that many again in the next 24 hours. The reality in all this is that their marketing worked, it's a AAA MMO, and it's been awhile since we have seen one. It's going to do pretty damn well...at least for awhile.

And with them offering free server transfers in a couple of weeks...eh...it was an easy call for me to jump to one of the new ones, start again, and just be able to play..still with a queue, but no real pain.

mibgeneral

Camelot Westernesse Zeta US West (Oregon) 1997 11658
WAIT TIME IS 25h 52m 52s

Neoyoshi

"New World is Amazon Games' first major title to release since it launched Crucible, a shooter by the company that was pulled within a few months of its release."

So when New world shuts down it'll be what, 5 for 5? How many game titles have they canceled/had to shut down now? 4, 5?

Hengist

Neoyoshi said:

"New World is Amazon Games' first major title to release since it launched Crucible, a shooter by the company that was pulled within a few months of its release."

So when New world shuts down it'll be what, 5 for 5? How many game titles have they canceled/had to shut down now? 4, 5?

Oh, they are shutting down?

Good to know.

Tiller

mibgeneral said:

Camelot Westernesse Zeta US West (Oregon) 1997 11658

WAIT TIME IS 25h 52m 52s

That's my server unfortunately, I played the same in beta. Ima give up for the next week. Pops will die down as people transfer out.

Quizzical

Good thing that the queue is filled with people who aren't bothered by waiting in queues.  That's axiomatically the case, as people who are upset about launch day queues don't try to play new games on launch day.

Quizzical

Hengist said:

Neoyoshi said:

"New World is Amazon Games' first major title to release since it launched Crucible, a shooter by the company that was pulled within a few months of its release."

So when New world shuts down it'll be what, 5 for 5? How many game titles have they canceled/had to shut down now? 4, 5?

Oh, they are shutting down?

Good to know.

Yes, the game will definitely shut down sometime in the next century or so.  Probably.