Wardogs dev reflects on the FPS game's messy Steam takeover: "We either fix the queue now or we're f***ed"
Massive multiplayer shooter Wardogs experienced a chaotic launch on Steam, with over 365,000 concurrent players overwhelming the servers and causing issues with anticheat bans. Developer Bulkhead, led by figures like Howard Philpott and James Tatum-Dean, worked quickly to deploy a hotfix that resolved the login queue problems. Despite initial setbacks, the game achieved over 1.5 million sales and an 83% Steam review average.
- Entities
- Topic: First-Person Shooter
- Topic: Anticheat
- Person: Howard Philpott
- Person: James Tatum-Dean
- Person: Michael 'Shroud' Grzesiek
- Game: Wardogs
- Platform: Steam
- Person: Joe Brammer
- Company: Bulkhead
- Topic: Game Launch Issues
- Person: Jaryd 'Summit1g' Lazar
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