On June 6th we will be celebrating our 16th anniversary since launching WWII Online, that's awesome! We have a lot of activities happening; so today I will be addressing our Steam progress, additional power inbound to one of our server cabinets on this Sunday and finally provide you with a YouTube video of our highly engaging / interactive Rat Chat we had this last weekend!
STEAM PROGRESS
Steam users will be having their very own game client, we've chosen to do this to make things much easier on their end and work with the Steam flow much easier. So new users coming from Steam will not be required to launch the Playgate as our (organic) current users do. Actually signing up for an account and managing that account will also be a bit different, all of that is being worked on as we speak and is making really solid progress.
Currently we're in the "Coming Soon" to Steam category and we're already gaining some awareness in preparation for our actual Early Access launch day. This is great because it's already building up a bit of a fan base, in fact we have (as of this writing) 1,446 members part of our Steam group, welcome aboard everyone!
LOCALIZATION TEAM
We realized really quickly that we needed form a Localization team, to help us translate our announcements and game information to many other languages. We're pleased to report that we have adapted rapidly to this demand and we're now offering multiple translations on our Steam store, and we're going to be working on additional translations for our actual game client.
If you speak a language other than English, please send us an e-mail at [email protected] with some information about you and the language(s) you speak fluently.
ADDITIONAL POWER FOR SERVER CABINET
Game services will be brought offline by 7PM US Central this coming Sunday June 4th 2017. We will be replacing the power distribution units of an entire cabinet that we have. This will provide is with double the power capacity, and bring our entire infrastructure up to maximum power. You should expect this to take the duration of the evening.
ISP CHANGE COMING SOON (MID-JUNE)
We've recently installed our new Gigabit line but have been working on all of the networking and routing / configuration rules in prep to swap things over from our two 100 Megabit lines. We will keep you posted on this but there will be a 24 hour propagation period (based on your ISP) that will make services hard to reach. This will increase our bandwidth ceiling by a factor of 10x and is required for the Steam release.