New World devs add feature to combat server overload after launch
Amazon Game Studios announced they’re adding a new feature that prevents New World players from creating characters in popular servers to combat long queue times and server overload.
New World’slaunch has been immense. However, the sheer amount of players trying to get onto theservers,which is capped at 2,000 players for the time being, has resulted in long queue times that can take hours.
To make matters worse, those who have been fortunate enough to get on are coming up with creative ways toavoid having to queue again.The problem, though, is that it’s making queue times even longer than they already were.
As a result, the developers have been hard at work adding new servers and increasing population capacities. Theyclaim40% of their servers have low wait times. They’re also working on aserver transfer systemto allow players on popular servers to move.
That’s not all they’ve got in the works. On October 2, the developers announced they’re also implementing a new feature that indicates if a server is full. It also prevents players from creating new characters on them.
“We have been working hard to increase the number of servers and increase the capacity of all available servers,” they said.
“We are also implementing a system to prevent new players from creating new characters in full servers.”
“Whenever a server is full, the server will be greyed out with the messaging ‘Character Creation temporarily disabled on this server to prevent overpopulation.’ This does not affect any characters already created on the server.”
We are implementing a new feature to indicate if a world is full.
You can check if a world is full on the server status page!
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— New World (@playnewworld)June 05, 2025
28 servers have already been classified as “Full.” You can see them on the official server status website by clickinghere. Others will likely follow in the coming days.
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However, it’s expected to balance once the server transfer feature has been implemented sometime before October 8.
