New World downtime scheduled to consolidate hundreds of servers to streamline player populations

Amazon is planning some downtime later today to start New world Server consolidation affects hundreds of servers across all regions. Although the team has consolidated a few servers in the past week, with a few minor glitches, this is the biggest move they’ll ever try.

When New world was released, the concurrent player count reached over 900,000 players. Huge launch queues are annoying but a sign of good demand. Instead of increasing the number of servers available by a few at once, Amazon just doubled the number of servers within the first few weeks. Players are required to create their characters on servers with lower populations and newer servers with the guarantee that they can transfer them later, is a temporary fix that took a long time to resolve than people expected. Add to that the fact that the server transfer is not done available across regions, which also led to player frustration with global guilds. While the server migration was eventually rolled out to be more stable, the population was starting to dwindle, meaning that some people who had switched to another server found their new server lacked enough people to sustain them. stable play.

Of course, the game had a rough ride in the first few months of its launch, including mining operations, closed the transfer of wealth a few times, a lot of bugs have been discovered by the community and continue to be frustrated about updates with bugs and inconsistencies. Current player and stream counts are down and servers will merge been working for a while, but only recently started. The fact that Amazon is consolidating hundreds of servers starting with today’s downtime will hopefully make the remaining servers have better access and healthier populations.

A massive merge will cause all affected players on those servers to be merged no ownership of territory that they may have had on their previous server, as the server they are being merged with will retain its ownership structure. Of course, for some players, if the population is healthy and the game becomes more enjoyable as a result, maybe this is just a new challenge to take on.

For a complete list of servers being consolidated in all regions, see this update above New world.