Amazon has finally made its ambitious step into the video games industry via the long awaited New World. The MMO was highly anticipated, so much so that the pre-orders for the base game and the Deluxe edition took the top two spots on Steam’s August sales charts. Unfortunately, that popularity quickly overwhelmed the servers as some players had to wait hours to get into the game.
Unfortunately, the game’s servers still haven’t been able to keep up with the player count, leading Amazon to take some measures. One of these recently announced measures prevents players from creating new characters on full servers.
“Whenever a server is full, the server will be greyed out with the messaging “Character Creation temporarily disabled on this server to prevent overpopulation,” said the devs on Twitter. “This does not affect any characters already created on the server and you will be able to log in as usual. At this time we have put 28 worlds in “Full” status but keep an eye out on our Server Status page since this list of worlds can change from hour to hour.”
The other measures taken by Amazon involves a feature that will allow players to eventually transfer their characters to different servers. This feature will prove useful as you’ll be able to join a particular server in order to play with your friends rather than the first one available.
Additionally Amazon also explained that it is “rapidly adding servers for each region as necessary and updating players as they become available.” It admitted that the traffic on New World’s first day was way more than it could have ever expected.
After multiple delays, Amazon finally launched New World last week. It seems that the delay did not deter anyone from checking it out as it quickly hit half a million concurrent players on Steam and peaked at more than 700,000 people during its opening 24 hours. Unfortunately there were less than 200 servers at launch, each with a 2000 player cap. This caused a number of players to face excruciatingly long wait times, ranging anywhere between two to eight hours.