The developer of Path of Exile 2 has warned gamers to brace themselves for server queues this weekend, with over a million concurrent gamers anticipated to hit the Early Access launch.
In a video message, Grinding Gear Games co-founder Jonathan Rogers spoke about anticipation for the motion role-playing sequel surpassing the studio’s expectations, and expressed concern that its backend companies may buckle below the burden of the Early Access launch.
Path of Exile 2’s world launch occasions set the launch for 11am PT right this moment, December 6, and it’s at this level that the floodgates will open. Path of Exile 2 is already the top-selling sport on Steam by income, suggesting Rogers’ concern is well-placed. Whether the sport is as much as the duty of dealing with what’s coming, nevertheless, stays to be seen, with gross sales nonetheless rising, Rogers stated.
“We’ve simply reached a million Early Access redemptions,” Rogers revealed within the video message. “The help you’ve all proven for Path of Exile 2 Early Access is way past something we may have ever predicted. However we wish to be upfront with you all and allow you to know there might very effectively be queues over the weekend.
“There are in all probability going to be some queues through the launch weekend. Before our announcement, once we have been ordering capability, we actually didn’t anticipate to have greater than 1,000,000 folks on-line on the similar time.
“We’ve already ordered far more cloud capability, and people servers will probably be coming on-line very quickly, however I do have some issues about points with the backend. We fairly frankly don’t know what our backend companies are going to have the ability to deal with as we go above 1,000,000 customers.
“We’ve added extra database shards, scaling every thing we now have up so far as it is going to go. But we’re actually unsure what sort of limits we would hit. We by no means anticipated issues to go this large throughout EA [Early Access].
“So I simply needed to say thanks. Thank you guys a lot for believing on this venture. If we do run into server points at launch, simply know that we’re going to be working as laborious as we will to unravel them.”
Path of Exile 2 is GGG’s hotly anticipated free-to-play motion role-playing sequel set years after the unique sport. Players return to the world of Wraeclast and search to finish a spreading corruption, with six character courses, every with two Ascendancy Classes, out there to play on the launch of Early Access later this week. There’s co-op for as much as six gamers, however you’ll be able to play solo. Check out IGN’s Path of Exile 2 preview, the place we gave the Mercenary class a whirl and obtained a primary take a look at the endgame, for extra.
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