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Ok, @Diddums and @GazzaGarratt you have sold me. Seems like the right time to jump in. 
 
It’s pay day too, so I’m going to make the purchase and jump in this weekend! 

Ok, @Diddums and @GazzaGarratt you have sold me. Seems like the right time to jump in. 
 
It’s pay day too, so I’m going to make the purchase and jump in this weekend! 

Some Hogwarts Legacy snaps whilst I work towards the platinum … 

It’s definitely playing into the nostalgia of the games. I don’t see it being too popular to people that didn’t play them previously.
 
I expect it to be a bit of a novelty game to be honest. But still very exciting.

I never played these games and know little to nothing about them, other than people loved them! 
 
I’ll probably wait and see what the reception is like when it releases and watch some gameplay videos/live streams to see if it’s my type of game! 

I never played these games and know little to nothing about them, other than people loved them! 
 
I’ll probably wait and see what the reception is like when it releases and watch some gameplay videos/live streams to see if it’s my type of game! 

Arrowhead games has said several times now it’s not about server size. If it was that it would be an easy fix. It’s something in the code. That’s coming from the developer. 

I played it for a few hours when it first went to early access, haven’t picked it up since it went to full release! Like Sea of Thieves, I would be interested assuming there is cross play as il be playing through Xbox Game pass 👍🏻

I had a brief go with this when it was first released on xbox. Now it's coming to other consoles I am giving this a nudge to see if anyone else would be interested? My first impressions were pretty positive so looking forward to playing this now that it's further down the developmental road.

Echoing this Lee, it's an absurd idea to expect servers to be capable of millions of players, even if you look at Counter Strike on PC which has a sizeable following it doesn't hit 1 million players. Considering the first helldivers was nowhere near as popular it's hard to predict this would have gone down as well as it has. Sony could easily spend a fortune now ramping up servers similar to Palworld but is that practical? The numbers will drop fairly quickly with quite a few online games coming out over the next month or so.

This is apparently working nearly every time for people so may want to try this out 😄
 
We were on last night ( @Luseth @Macca89 and @Mitch) and where Mitch and Macca got straight on, Matt and myself got the server message. Having said that it only had to retry twice and Matt once so we were both in less than 2 minutes and it was great all night! That was just after 8pm too so a very high peak time so its not as bad as people probably think.
 
 
I don't think its ridiculous because no game offers 10 million slots for concurrent gameplay, thats insane and probably costs an absolute fortune. AA games aren't expected to have the amount of immediate success they had and whilst i'm super disappointed I couldn't play over the weekend due to servers, sometimes I have sympathy for a company that delievered something way better than they even anticipated. I'd urge more people to give it a go and try and log on. I don't think the peak will last for months too. Whilst replayability now is amazing, we know that their regular updates won't be as quick as other live service games. You don't have to gorge the content (you can't anyway because of slowish XP progression), rather more the game is there to be enjoyed having a ton of doing a few missions with some laughs involved.

It’s a shame as I was considering picking it up this weekend to try and jump in with some of you … sounds like I should wait another week or so! 
 
It’s difficult as I definitely understand the fans/players frustrations, paying £35 for a game that they often can’t even play! I do have sympathies for the developer though as they really didn’t expect the success they are seeing! 
 
Hopefully this will all be suited in the next week or so! 

Some Hogwarts Legacy snaps whilst I work towards the platinum … 

So its pretty clear, this game has surpassed most gamers expectations and for the price too, people have flocked to it...just abit too much than they anticipated! I'm pretty gutted we can't play it most nights of late with servers just saying max capacity without any update of getting on.
 
The issue seems to be a cap on the servers for max players which was then made worse by people going AFK and leaving themselves logged in because the game didn't have an AFK kick function. They are working hard to rectify they have said and I think they've sorted the AFK part but max servers will most likely be a software issue written into the code - so its not as easy as people think.
 
The producer has said honestly that he would tell people that haven't bought it to be patient and wait which in fairness something that not many others would say. I really hope its fixed in the next few weeks as this game is bloody fantastic and a great party up game. Lots of replayability too.
 
How you all feeling about it? I'd love to know more about the technical reasons as its clear that you can't just pump money on new servers being turned on unfortunately.

Final snaps from my Alan Wake 2 playthrough! 

Whilst I agree that it’ll be good for PS5 owners, I think it’s important to consider that IF Microsoft/Xbox do pull out of the console hardware market, then who challenges PlayStation? What’s stopping Sony from charging £700 for the PS6? Nintendo aren’t really trying to compete at the high end powerful console level, so it would just be PlayStation.
 
Xbox are in a really difficult position, by focusing so much on Game Pass they have cornered themselves into this position. Particularly with a lot of their most popular franchises being multiplayer (Gears, Halo, now COD), these games benefit from having a large player base … best way to get that is to have them on all consoles.
 
We need to see what Xbox say about these rumours next week, but right now I am worried for the future of the video games market if this is all true.

Final snaps from my Alan Wake 2 playthrough! 

Final snaps from my Alan Wake 2 playthrough! 

Control 2 is already in the works! 
 
Control 2 - Remedy Entertaiment
WWW.REMEDYGAMES.COM Remedy Entertainment has signed an agreement with 505 Games to co-develop and co-publish Control 2...  

I just beat the story for Alan Wake 2 last night! Overall, I enjoyed the experience, however I did find the combat to be quite clunky and unsatisfying. I actually much preferred the combat in the original Alan Wake. 
 
I actually didn’t like Saga’s mind place as much as I was hoping. Alan’s plot board was a little better but still not quite what I was hoping for. 
 
The visuals are phenomenal and I loved the way they used live action footage, Remedy are definitely the masters of this right now! 

The voice acting is also fantastic for basically every character in the game! Speaking of characters, I really enjoyed all the new characters, and the reoccurring ones! Saga Anderson is great and hopefully a staple in the series going forward.
 
The story is … great! But it’s a real mindfu**! Obviously this game is part of the RCU (Remedy Connected Universe), so has links to Control. You can play Alan Wake 2 as its own game, but it definitely helps to play Alan Wake and Control first. 
 
It’s the kind of story which leaves you with more questions than answers, and it wants to come up with your own theories about what has happened and why it’s happening. 
 
I’m really hoping there are others here on the site that have beat the game, as it’s definitely a game that you could spend hours debating and theorising! Anyone played it and have their thoughts? 
 
If I had to put a score on it, I would give it an 8.5/10! 

Whilst I agree that it’ll be good for PS5 owners, I think it’s important to consider that IF Microsoft/Xbox do pull out of the console hardware market, then who challenges PlayStation? What’s stopping Sony from charging £700 for the PS6? Nintendo aren’t really trying to compete at the high end powerful console level, so it would just be PlayStation.
 
Xbox are in a really difficult position, by focusing so much on Game Pass they have cornered themselves into this position. Particularly with a lot of their most popular franchises being multiplayer (Gears, Halo, now COD), these games benefit from having a large player base … best way to get that is to have them on all consoles.
 
We need to see what Xbox say about these rumours next week, but right now I am worried for the future of the video games market if this is all true.

Some more snaps from my Alan Wake 2 playthrough, getting towards the end now …

I just beat the story for Alan Wake 2 last night! Overall, I enjoyed the experience, however I did find the combat to be quite clunky and unsatisfying. I actually much preferred the combat in the original Alan Wake. 
 
I actually didn’t like Saga’s mind place as much as I was hoping. Alan’s plot board was a little better but still not quite what I was hoping for. 
 
The visuals are phenomenal and I loved the way they used live action footage, Remedy are definitely the masters of this right now! 

The voice acting is also fantastic for basically every character in the game! Speaking of characters, I really enjoyed all the new characters, and the reoccurring ones! Saga Anderson is great and hopefully a staple in the series going forward.
 
The story is … great! But it’s a real mindfu**! Obviously this game is part of the RCU (Remedy Connected Universe), so has links to Control. You can play Alan Wake 2 as its own game, but it definitely helps to play Alan Wake and Control first. 
 
It’s the kind of story which leaves you with more questions than answers, and it wants to come up with your own theories about what has happened and why it’s happening. 
 
I’m really hoping there are others here on the site that have beat the game, as it’s definitely a game that you could spend hours debating and theorising! Anyone played it and have their thoughts? 
 
If I had to put a score on it, I would give it an 8.5/10! 

Control 2 is already in the works! 
 
Control 2 - Remedy Entertaiment
WWW.REMEDYGAMES.COM Remedy Entertainment has signed an agreement with 505 Games to co-develop and co-publish Control 2...  

Fucking awesome! 🤘🏻