How Long Do New World Queues Take

New World review bombed afterward long queue times

New World'southward long queue times have infuriated players, prompting thousands of players to review bomb the game on Steam, whilst others meme the botched launch.

New World review bombed after long queue times

Published on September 28th, 2021

Update:The developers have now stated that, due to server troubles, players will be offered a one-off grapheme migration.

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Amazon'southward debut into the video games manufacture may just get down as i of the worst game launches in history, triumphing over CD PROJEKT's botched Cyberpunk 2077 launch. This follows after the highly anticipated (and long-sought-after) release of the New World MMO left thousands of eager players waiting in seemingly endless queues and unable to play the game.

What could only be described as an utter ending prompted thousands of disgruntled gamers to bombard the New World Steam page with an array of negative reviews (and memes). The question many players are request is: what is the reason for these long queue times anyhow and what are players saying?

New Globe is getting review bombed over long queue times

According to several user accounts, Amazon's "genius thought" to make separate launch times for each region and having a global lock on character names has forced several players to flock to neighbouring server regions to secure their character names. This ultimately resulted in an over congestion of players queueing to join the server.

New World players are review bombing the game after waiting hours in queue. — New Globe players are review bombing the game after waiting hours in queue. (Motion-picture show: Steam)

Accordingly, Amazon has also bottlenecked its own game servers past limiting server slots to only 2000 users. "ane.vii trillion-dollar company with potato servers. Refunded this trash instantly," a Steam user wrote in their review. Another user wrote: "Biggest server hosting company in the globe and they cap the servers at 2000."

Other would-exist New Earth players found information technology hard to comprehend how Amazon, a company that is arguably the globe'due south leader in the deject computing space, failed to appropriate server capacity sufficiently for their own game.

new world long queues players review bomb game on steam — If EA adult New World, the launch may accept gone down differently. (Picture: Reddit / New World Game)

"Amazon owns AWS [Amazon Web Servers] the biggest server farm in the world [and] they host Netflix, Facebook, Twitter and Twitch.
Yet they can't spare enough server chapters to launch their flagship game. Very disappointed," a reviewer said. Many other reviews reciprocated this sentiment.

New World players that take managed to get through the queue and into the game have as well reported intermittent connectivity bug, which result in them disconnecting from the game (and later rejoining the queue).

The long queues to play New World have become a massive meme. — The long queues to play New Earth have go a massive meme. (Picture: Reddit / New Earth Game)

A Steam user indicated that Amazon could accept avoided this catastrophe by appropriating any of the following actions:

Simultaneous global launch
Region lock effectually the launch
Increasing server capacity for high load servers effectually the launch
Character pre-creation for pre-purchase players to estimate player distribution in advance

"I enjoyed the beta and I'thou sure I'll enjoy the game one time I really get to play it, but Amazon Games' lack of feel in the gaming industry shows," they added.

Amazon "working hard" to accost New World'south long queue times

Amazon indicated that they are aware of the server issues and issued a statement via the official New World Twitter page on 28th September at 15:09 BST.

Thank yu everyone for the tremendous launch day support! We are aware of login queues and server issues, the team is working hard to go them addressed and get anybody in and playing! Thank you for your patience.
— New World (@playnewworld) September 28, 2021

While there is currently no fashion around the server problems or login queues in New Globe, it is at least reassuring to know that they are working on a potential set. We'll be sure to go along you lot updated regarding further developments around this issue.

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If you need a refresher on New World, make certain to cheque out our guides for the game on our defended section .

Featured image courtesy of Amazon Games.

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