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 providers might buckle below the load of the Early Access launch.
Path of Exile 2’s international launch instances 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 recreation 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 got all proven for Path of Exile 2 Early Access is much past something we might have ever predicted. However we wish to be upfront with you all and allow you to know there might very nicely be queues over the weekend.
“There are most likely going to be some queues throughout the launch weekend. Before our announcement, once we have been ordering capability, we actually didn’t count on to have greater than one million folks on-line on the identical time.
“We’ve already ordered far more cloud capability, and people servers can 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 providers are going to have the ability to deal with as we go above one million customers.
“We’ve added extra database shards, scaling the whole lot we have now up so far as it would go. But we’re actually undecided what sort of limits we would hit. We by no means anticipated issues to go this massive throughout EA [Early Access].
“So I simply needed to say thanks. Thank you guys a lot for believing on this challenge. If we do run into server points at launch, simply know that we’re going to be working as exhausting as we will to resolve them.”
Path of Exile 2 is GGG’s hotly anticipated free-to-play motion role-playing sequel set years after the unique recreation. Players return to the world of Wraeclast and search to finish a spreading corruption, with six character lessons, every with two Ascendancy Classes, obtainable to play on the launch of Early Access later this week. There’s co-op for as much as six gamers, however you possibly can play solo. Check out IGN’s Path of Exile 2 preview, the place we gave the Mercenary class a whirl and acquired a primary take a look at the endgame, for extra.
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