UPDATE: The compensation packages have been released and here are the contents:
This past weekend, ArcheAge players got ready to jump into the 2.0 Heroes Awaken update that brought new features and new land for housing to the free to play MMORPG. As the maintenance time ticked down, the predictable flood of players trying to log in and claim some land quickly got ready.
And, almost predictably, there were issues.
This time around though the issues weren’t with the Heroes Awaken patch. The issues came in Glyph’s, Trion Worlds’ authentication tool, ability to actually let players log into the game. After launching and checking the data, Trion Worlds has found that only about 10% of the ArcheAge playerbase was actually able to log in causing a serious unfair advantage when it came to land grabbing.
On the plus side though, update 2.0 has also given the ArcheAge team the ability to actually rollback servers (something they previously could not do), and Trion Worlds did just that. Yesterday, servers were rolled back, APEX purchases were refunded, and the 2.0 update was rolled out again with a staggered schedule starting in Europe.
In the way of an apology, Trion Worlds kept players informed on the forums and will be putting together a special package of in game items for all players. Contents of this package will be determined later this week.
ArcheAge players: Let us know how the “re-launch” of 2.0 went yesterday in the comments below!
16 Readers Commented
Join discussionGotta love all the “I hate ArcheAge” trolls. It’s not a matter of dislike for a game. You people are angry at other players if they actually enjoy it.
and you my frend u are a ignorant morron!
Are there people still playing this shit? Humanity gets more stupid every day. TRION screwd you how many times now??? And you still paying for that?? I cant belive it how stupid and blind some people are. I never ever would pay a cent for a broken game like this…..
I hope they close the servers soon. And we never hear agin from this shit fail excuse of a wanna be game…..
I’ve never been screwed by Trion and neither has anyone in my guild. If you don’t like the game, don’t play it. You act like a 12 year old spoiled kid who got banned from the game.
That’s what happened isn’t it. You’re butthurt.
This game is broken and p2w, that’s why the majority of votes for Archeage is very negative steam and mmobomb wise. Obviously you’re the one that is butthurt @Andrenz. If @Archeageisshit doesn’t like the game he obviously doesnt play it.
Honestly TRION are hopeless as this all shows.
Their options are to throw sweets, but they are sticky full of grit and loosely unwrapped, just like Trion is in game nursing – hopeless.
XLGames needs to sack their arses, then maybe the game might be worth re-playing.
actually, most of the problems with exploiting and bugs isn’t Trions fault. That fault lies squarely on Xl Games, the developers of the game. Trion is just a publisher.
That 10% is the player base.
Impossible since it is a derived percentage. You should have mathed better and something like: 5 players total 10% blocked = only half a person was stopped.
Fekking failboats….at least they rolled it back this time.
And thank fook i don’t play it……..
^Bwahahahaha its cursed
What is it with this game that just spells disaster over and over again.
T R I O N, that’s how it spells disaster.
I wouldn’t be that hasty, after all they run Rift pretty damn amazingly well from what i remember at least.
I have no idea what is going on with this title, maybe cursed indeed lol.
Its not Trion. They’re only the producer. The devs of XL games are to blame for the exploiting and bugs. The launch was rough because no-one predicted that it was going to be that popular.
Server merging with a game like ArcheAge is a massive undertaking.
Game is still bad and p2w even without the bugs. The game is popular now.. as a laughing stock and them fat redneck gingers will still pay for the game.