New World's Massive Launch Is Causing Server Issues And Long Login Queues

@jenovaschilld: You don't want to necessarily open new servers unless your going to consistently be having those queues 2 weeks after launch. At launch, the queues are always heavily inflated because you have people taking time off work, playing 24/7 and generally playing longer hours than they would normally.

However, after a couple weeks, those numbers start to stabilise as people get back to their regular schedules and those massive queues start to drop and the simultaneous logins drop and start to normalise.

The trick is that the number of servers you have, you want just enough to make sure that after the numbers normalise, you still have a sufficient number of simultaneous logins on each server so that you actually have people on your server to play with and that it doesn't feel abandoned.

However, by opening more servers to meet the inflated launch time rush, you run into a potential problem where once the logins normalise, the simultaneous logins might be far too low to sufficiently support the playerbase on each of those servers because you spread everyone out across too many servers in order to satisfy those inflated launch queues.

SWTOR ran into this problem when it launched, they had multi hour queues and in order to lessen the queue times, they opened a bunch of new servers. However, a few weeks later, most of those servers were essentially abandoned and most people either quit or had to start a new character on another more populated within a month of initial launch.

Now it is possible to somewhat combat the issue with say a server transfer system, which SWTOR did not have at launch and took them several months to implement, by which time most people had just given up waiting and quit. But telling people they have to pay for server transfer because you made too many new servers at launch is not going to go over well. Likewise, a game advertising that they are merging servers shortly after launch would have just as many negative connotations attached to it.

@esqueejy: I think they were going less WoW and Everquest and more Valhiem, Rust, Anno where survival and PVP combat is more focused then outright PVE dungeons, raids, etc. John Liberto and Double Helix said they did not want to recreate another WoW, but make a heavily exploration, craft, and battle game with factions. Reminds me of Age of Conaan.

Ah, either way it will entertain or sink itself. So many want to be the next WoW or FF14- the space is already over crowded, so you either clone WoW or you try something a bit different.

For the very cheap price of $40, and no subscription- worth giving it a chance, I mean what we gonna do play WoW shadowlands for another year...... argh.

@Berserk8989: Everybody wants to play the next new mmo and I'm sure most didn't play beta but it'll die down when they realize how unfun the game is and go back to whatever they were playing. Seems hard to make a great mmo nowadays that's better than what we have already.

@daidochus: It's been an hour (as of this writing). Did you get in?