People Can Fly addresses the outages
Outriderswent live yesterday, and it seems like a lot of people are hopping on, because the servers are having some trouble keeping up. Players are reporting disconnections and troubles staying logged into servers.
Over on theOutriderssubredditand on social media, users have been posting pictures of the start screen. Developer People Can Fly has been openly addressing it though, posting updates on theOutridersTwitter page.
In astatement, studio head Sebastian Wojciechowski says that Square Enix is working to fix the server issues as soon as possible.
“As developers, who’ve been working super hard for the last five years to make this game awesome, we really hope that you will judge the game rather than those teething troubles related to server issues,” said Wojciechowski. “It is frustrating for you and it is frustrating for us.”
Launch server outages are hardly a new story in video games, with lots ofonline-enabled multiplayer games strugglingto deal withsudden surges of popularity.Outridersalso seems to be garnering a lot of players, given theSteam numbers it’s been putting updespite the outages.
The team says it’s going to do the “mother of all turn-it-off-and-on-agains,” which will take all servers offline for a short duration. Hopefully kicking the plug out completely will give Square Enix a good chance to rebuild and be ready for the player influx.
[Update:Looks likeservers are back online. Time to get back to shootin’, lootin’, and wranglin’ the wilds of Enoch.]
