The MMORPG Mortal Online 2 is closing multiple servers to bring all players back to one place. But: That was actually the plan from the beginning.
What kind of game is this? Mortal Online 2 is a sandbox MMORPG with a strong focus on PvP elements and an action-packed combat system. On your own exploration journeys, there is always the danger of being targeted by other players. But: Those who constantly kill other players are marked as murderers and will not be welcomed by city guards.
Among other things, Mortal Online 2 offers melee and ranged combat, mounted duels, crafting, trading, and an open game world. It is played with stylish graphics from a first-person perspective.
MeinMMO editor Alexander Leitsch tested the game – having a lot of fun, but also facing many deaths:
Mortal Online 2 brings everyone back to a single continent – as originally planned
How did it go for Mortal Online 2? Mortal Online 2 launched successfully on January 25 on Steam and managed to attract over 9,600 players at peak – a large number for the niche game, which the developers apparently did not anticipate.
The problem: Mortal Online 2 started with a concept where all players were supposed to be on the same continent and the same server. However, the capacity was apparently reached too quickly and this led to severe queues and other issues, which even required a rollback.
As a result, the developers provided alternative servers with a slightly restricted version of the continent Myrland to better distribute the player base.
What does it look like now? The initial surge is over. Of the 4,832 players who were on average playing in February 2022 – with a peak of 8,867 players – there have been only 2,308 players left on average in the last 30 days and a peak of 4,595 players. About half of the players have temporarily said goodbye.
At the same time, the game has been updated and fixed. Among other things, a patch was released this weekend that included “Major Network Optimization.” Now a higher player capacity and larger battles are possible: “For this reason, we will keep the Myrland alt-servers offline until they are needed again,” the developers explain in the patch notes.
Already in mid-March, the developers explained on their homepage that the programmers were busy dealing with the connection issues. After that, there would be time to focus on new content: “We want to thank everyone who endured this dry spell of new content while we carried out these unfortunately unexciting but necessary server and backend improvements. Once we are satisfied with the server capacity, we will again release content patches every two weeks, so there is always something exciting to discover.”
It is quite possible that there will soon be more content to explore.
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