The continuing early access launch saga of Wildcard’s new pirate MMO Atlas

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(We’re updating this post at the bottom as the drama unfolds!)

Marking its third delay since its announcement just two weeks ago, Wildcard’s pirate MMO Atlas is not going to launch early access today, either.

“Pathfinders, we expect early streaming of ATLAS to start this evening at approx 9:00 PM PST,” the game’s Twitter account said just a few minutes ago. “Following that, the game will be ready for full Early Access Launch tomorrow by noon PST. We’ll keep you updated should there be any changes. Thank you for your patience and support.” To recap in EST: Partner streaming will start tomorrow morning at 12 a.m. EST, with launch tomorrow at 3 p.m. EST.

Naturally, since it’s Christmas, all the replies on Twitter are super warm and supportive.

Readers will recall it was originally planned to launch on the 13th, but Wildcard pushed it to the 19th, then the 21st, and now the 22nd.

Here’s that trailer one more time, why not.

Source: Twitter
Update Saturday morning
Astonishing, truly, that the streamers didn’t get in on time.

But they’re in now.

Update Saturday afternoon
The game is now available for purchase on Steam. Do note it’s an early access title and is expected to be in early access for a long time, so plan accordingly. The current sale price is around 25 bucks.

The official site is up too, with Wildcard’s brief outline of post-launch plans, including third-party server hosting, tools, and settings.

Update Saturday evening
It’s finally up, though players and streamers are reporting that the game is already suffering from login queues and that the game’s starting zone is capped at under a few hundred people per server, thereby creating a bottleneck as people are trying to log in and being throttled instead due to too few servers to hold them. Welp, that part is MMOsy, at least. Just check out all the irate comments on this Twitter thread and get out yer backup games.

Reddit isn’t having a much better time; there, as DK pointed out to us, just as many complaints are about the game supposedly being “ARK 2.0.”

40,000 Simultaneous Players In The Same World from playatlas

Update Sunday morning
Looks like the “ARK 2.0” stuff isn’t so unfounded after all; MOP reader Siphaed pointed us to threads and reviews where players are currently chronicling the copypasta job. But then… who didn’t assume this game was already going to be a spinoff of ARK?
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