You may recall that Xsyon, the sandbox MMO from Notorious Games, was pushed back from its original May 2010 release date to August 2010, and then to a nonspecific date in early 2011. Earlier this year, a confirmed date of March 1st was announced, with the prelude going live two weeks before. As Notorious Games was gearing up for its final character wipe before prelude, however, last minute hardware and database issues arose, causing the servers to lag so badly that the game was nonfunctional for the night. After deliberation, it was decided that the launch would be pushed back, with the “official launch” pushed back to March 15th. The final wipe and prelude launch is, as of yet, undetermined, but according to NG’s Virtus, should occur before March 1st.
The server issues can be attributed to a sudden and unforeseen explosion in Xsyon preorders in the two days leading up to the original prelude launch, those server issues in turn contributing to the database errors. Players are, understandably, perturbed by the announcement of yet another wipe, as the initial launch had tribes competing against each other, not to mention unplayable conditions, fifteen minute delays in action, consistent server rollbacks, and other glitches, in order to lay down claim of territory in the game’s map. Although Notorious Games has promised that they will do everything in their power to restore Tribe territory, they may be unable to leading to another rush for land when the game launches a second time.
More on Xsyon as it appears.
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