New World remains offline as 'technical difficulties' force extended downtime

Amazon's MMO New World is a significant hit, however it's additionally had some struggles because it went stay final week. Lengthy server queues have been the largest difficulty, however it hit one other bump within the highway right now with some unspecified “technical difficulties” which have compelled a number of extensions to downtime for upkeep.

New World was taken down at 6 am ET for what was anticipated to be about 4 hours to roll out the 1.01 update. “As every world finishes their upkeep interval, we might be citing these worlds so as to make sure that everybody will be capable of return to Aeternum as quick as doable,” Amazon mentioned within the preliminary announcement.

Roughly 4 hours later, although, the studio added one other hour onto that concentrate on, which means the sport could be again at 11 am ET. Simply earlier than that, the downtime was prolonged one other two hours.

“Sadly, we’re having some technical difficulties and want to increase the upkeep for 2 extra hours,” Amazon mentioned. “We apologize for the inconvenience and thanks to your persistence and assist!”

A one-hour extension isn't a giant deal by itself, however one other two hours—seven in complete thus far, with presumably extra to return—is certainly uncommon, or no less than surprising to the sport's legions of gamers patiently ready to wage struggle (or simply do some 'stress-free' fishing). Amazon hasn't mentioned what precisely is holding issues up, however I've reached out for remark and can replace if I obtain a reply.