10,000 botters have been banned in the sandbox MMO ArcheAge, new EU servers might come as early as Tuesday.
There is another status update fresh from the sandbox MMO ArcheAge. On Sunday night US time and Monday morning our time, the CEO of Trion Worlds, Scott Hartsman, spoke out. The whole weekend, Trion Worlds has been working hard to deliver the best possible outcome for the players.
EU servers are set to clear customs on Tuesday
“On the internet, an hour feels like a day, and a day feels like a week,” Hartsman said. Therefore, he understands how impatient European players are waiting for the new servers. At the moment, the new hardware for the European servers is still in customs.
It is expected to clear customs on Tuesday. Technicians are already on standby to bring the hardware online as quickly as possible. Hartsman cannot specify exactly when the servers will arrive. A community manager mentioned in another post “before next weekend.”
Daily restarts are expected to relieve clogged servers in ArcheAge
The issue with “clogging” AFK players blocking valuable capacity on the servers is being addressed with daily restarts. This should at least temporarily alleviate the congestion. Additionally, players are also being manually removed from the game.
According to Hartsman, a fix for these AFK problem players could arrive as early as Monday or Tuesday our time, which should significantly reduce the long queues. During peak times, too much space is currently being taken up by AFK players.
Furthermore, according to Hartsman, Trion Worlds has already banned about 10,000 botters and cheaters from the game in the past few days.
Over the weekend, the servers in North America were also victims of a DDoS attack, but it ended without major issues and the game continued running all the time. According to Hartsman, Europe was not affected by this attack.
Regarding the possibility of compensation, Hartsman stated that they have already credited the Patron players last week to compensate for the head start, where many lacked Patron status. They have now expanded this so that the Patron status has only been calculated since last Saturday.
Update 9 PM: For a change, some good news from Trion Worlds, the servers were able to clear customs a day earlier than planned and are currently being prepared. The schedule could therefore be moved forward.
