In the sandpark MMO ArcheAge , a player could seemingly crash the servers at will. Another chapter in the chronicle of problems plaguing Trion Worlds and their game ArcheAge.
As reported by the US magazine massively, a player was able to crash the US game servers Kyrios and Naima accidentally at first and later reproducibly. He made this known in a post on the public forum to alert Trion Worlds. Normally, one would say: What nonsense, that can’t possibly happen, someone just wants to make themselves important. In this case, however, the situation seems to be unfortunately a bit different.
To prove that he is not a fool, he announced the server crashes, as massively reports, twice in advance – and indeed the servers were really down then.
He does not comment on the method he used to avoid instructing imitators. According to him, the first crashes happened accidentally, then he realized what caused it and planned to repeat it.
According to his statements, he anonymously opened a forum thread and did not write a bug report ticket because he wanted to ensure that this “bug” received maximum attention and that the report would not end up in the crowded inbox of Trion support.
The method, as he suspects, has also been discovered by other players who brought down other servers. Trion Worlds has stated that they are investigating this. The relevant thread in the official forum has since been closed after reaching 323 pages, so at least the community showed a little “interest”.
Chronicle of Trion Worlds’ Technical Problems with ArcheAge
For parts of the community active in forums about the game, this action shows once again the large problems Trion Worlds has with the Korean import ArcheAge. In the past, there have been repeated issues with the Free2Play MMO that Trion Worlds only publishes in the West but does not develop.
At the beginning, there were several reports that the service was under DDOS attacks. Difficulties with the “pay” system resulted from difficult technical problems integrating the Korean system into their own launcher “Gylph”: Therefore, players struggled for a long time to receive the bonuses in the game they had paid for.
Shortly before the launch of ArcheAge, the game disappeared from Steam after the founder packages sold like hotcakes. They cited technical problems with the integration as the reason. Trion Worlds did not say more about it, except that they would address it and reach an agreement with Valve. This was about two months ago.
At the launch, there was the well-documented situation with “too few servers for the influx“: Extremely long queues were the result. After the launch, it became clear how susceptible the game was to various hacks, cheats, and bots, as the Korean hack shield apparently functioned poorly. According to Trion Worlds, this had to be used, although they were not really satisfied with it, as ArcheAge only functioned with it.
ArcheAge reached its low point in the past week in the USA, when the highly anticipated Auroria event was plagued by severe problems, making fair competition impossible, which many had prepared for.
On top of everything, the technical problems are not the only difficulty ArcheAge is currently facing. A significant change to the cash shop stirred the emotions of fans over the weekend.
