The MMORPG The Quinfall launched disastrously on Steam last weekend. The developers want to make everything better after the crash landing.
What kind of MMORPG is it? The Quinfall is a traditional medieval MMORPG from the studio Vawraek Technology Inc., founded in 2021. The MMORPG resembles genre giants like Black Desert Online or Metin2 and relies on an open world with many monsters to grind.
On January 24, 2025, the MMORPG will launch on Steam and immediately faced a crash landing. Many gamers felt disappointed.
This is what the cities and villages of The Quinfall are supposed to look like:
Poor start for The Quinfall
How did the launch go? Instead of providing a “completely new MMORPG experience” as described on their own Steam page and surprising players with a “hyper-realistic world with advanced graphics and state-of-the-art systems”, most gamers only saw the start screen.
Many adventurers waited for hours for an available spot on the servers, until they ultimately gave up. Those lucky enough to make it onto the servers were still likely disappointed. Complaints about an empty open world, average graphics, and game crashes in various places are piling up in the Steam reviews.
The problems are also reflected in the average rating on Steam. Of about 2,200 reviews, only 31% are positive. More than two-thirds of players were disappointed with the MMORPG. However, the developers do not want to take this lying down and are now coming forward with a plan.
What does the developers’ plan look like? The responsible parties have now released a statement along with a plan for improving their MMORPG on Steam. To reduce waiting times for gamers, the developers have also launched new servers. This is intended to distribute the influx. Each region will receive its own new server.
In their statement, the responsible parties also explain that they have been victims of a large-scale DDoS attack. This is also the reason why there were so many server problems at launch. The team is working with a reputed cybersecurity firm, which is not named, trying to fend off the attacks.
The developers also apologize for the outages and list four points in which they want to improve the MMORPG:
- First, the server problems are to be solved so all players can play The Quinfall; new servers will be launched and the capacity of existing servers increased.
- In the second step, the problem of DDoS attacks will be solved in cooperation with the cybersecurity firm.
- Furthermore, the development team wants to communicate more often and transparently with players and provide regular updates on progress.
- Once all problems are resolved, players should receive gifts as compensation.
Despite the crash landing, The Quinfall’s ratings are steadily recovering. In our article about the MMORPG from January 25, the game only had a 22% positive rating. So nearly 10 points have been recovered. While the game is still not polished in many areas, one thing seems to be working quite well: the real-money shop: As bad as The Quinfall is at launch, the biggest audacity of the MMORPG lies elsewhere
