The MMO New World (Steam) is facing a huge surge of players. To manage this, Amazon has temporarily locked the most popular servers to prevent “overpopulation.” The problem: There are now only 2 German servers left where one can register.
This is what Amazon says: In a Twitter message on October 2, Amazon writes (via twitter):
- There is an “enormous demand” for New World, and they are working hard to increase the number of servers and server capacity. But now they are also introducing a system to prevent players from creating new characters on “full” servers.
- When a server is full, players receive the message “Character creation is temporarily disabled to prevent overpopulation.” However, this does not stop existing characters from logging in.
- To start with, they marked 28 worlds as “full.”
This is what it looks like in the game: From the “28 worlds” that Amazon selected at the beginning, hundreds have quickly emerged.
On Monday morning, October 4, almost all servers in New World that are recommended for German players are “full”: 43 “German” servers are marked as full and therefore closed for the creation of new characters.
New World “forces” German players onto 2 servers
These German servers are still open for new players: Only 2 “German” servers still allow the creation of new characters. They are:
- Kurhah
- Lacerta
Both on the World Set “Vanaheim Nacht”.
These are the effects: Anyone who wants to play on a server with friends now has to give that up for the time being. Latecomers who want to join their gaming group now have to wait for free server transfers, which Amazon has promised.
Many just want to be on a server because their friends play there and therefore choose a “full server.”
Amazon is now taking action against this clustering on a few servers and the resulting overpopulation.
As another measure to resolve long waiting times, Amazon has already addressed the problem of “AFK cheaters”:
New World is now hunting AFK cheaters to dissolve the long waiting times
Amazon is currently doing a lot to prevent long waiting times. Many players wish that Amazon would simply make the servers larger, but that doesn’t seem to be so easy.
New players start on full servers – Fearing that the small ones will eventually die
This is the problem: Amazon has a typical “new MMO” problem: A huge influx of players at the start of a game. However, this usually doesn’t last long: it often subsides after about 6 weeks.
It seems clear: In a few weeks or months, far fewer people will be playing New World than now, and servers will then become deserted. Amazon will merge and close small servers.
Players are also aware of this. They fear: “In a few months, a server that is now small will be completely dead, and I will then have to start anew elsewhere.”
Therefore, players are now pushing for the “large servers,” believing that they will still be relevant in a few months and that playing there “somehow matters more” than in the province, on a “small server.”
Many just want to be on a server because their friends play there and therefore choose a “full server.”
Amazon is now taking action against this clustering on a few servers and the resulting overpopulation.
As another measure to resolve long waiting times, Amazon has already addressed the problem of “AFK cheaters”:
New World is now hunting AFK cheaters to dissolve the long waiting times
