Blade and Soul: Currently offline – New servers coming [Update]

With Blade and Soul , there is a luxury problem: high player numbers. Now new servers will be added. Blade & Soul is currently offline.

The Free2Play market in MMORPGs has been dried up for the last few years. In 2015 Skyforge was released, in 2014 ArcheAge, otherwise there was little happening – at least in the AAA area. Many have been looking forward to Blade and Soul for years, a martial-arts MMORPG from Korea. It has been doing well in Asia for a while, is polished, and has a lot of game content.

The game has been playable for everyone since Tuesday and people are reportedly flooding into NCSoft.

This is the launch trailer for B&S:

Blade and Soul is currently offline for maintenance until new servers come

An employee of the provider contacted last night and said: Our servers are overloaded. They are at full capacity and players are waiting in long lines. We know, this is not the most exciting thing in the world right now.

Therefore, measures have been initiated to reduce these waiting lines:

• New servers are currently being prepared. They should be available within the next 36 hours, and the names will be announced later.
• The capacity of the existing servers has already been significantly increased.
• For very popular servers, NCSoft has disabled character creation.
• A hotfix has been implemented, which will automatically kick players if they are inactive.

Meanwhile, maintenance of the Blade and Soul servers has been ongoing since 1:00 PM our time. They are offline. Four new NA servers and two EU servers are planned. According to Twitter, maintenance is expected to last about two hours.

The service should be back online around 3:00 PM. That is the estimated schedule for when Blade and Soul can be played again, when the servers and a few more will return.

Update: According to the latest tweet, maintenance is expected to last 3 hours and 20 minutes. This would put us around 4:30 PM.

All Blade and Soul servers are down for maintenance. Expected duration is 3 hours and 20 minutes.

— Blade & Soul Ops (@BladeAndSoulOps) January 21, 2016

Update 4:35 PM: The servers are back up. The two new EU servers are named Angler’s Watch and Greenhollow.

Servers are back up now! New servers available; for NA: Yunwa, Junghado, Dochun, Gunma. For EU: Angler’s Watch, Greenhollow

— Blade & Soul Ops (@BladeAndSoulOps) January 21, 2016

Update 4:45 PM: There are login issues in Europe, Blade and Soul reports via Twitter. If you can’t proceed after entering the pin code and receive an “endlessly ongoing cinematic”, you should wait for 5 minutes (or so) and then try again. It should work with the login then.