Forager01 wrote:The devs ought to have a cunning plan in their sea chest fer when a swarm o' players be descending upon ‘em, so the experience ain't a complete disaster in their eyes, savvy?
Yes, Loftar said he'd deploy additional servers if numbers required, which would become parallel worlds.
Also, to provide more information to the community:
We don't necessarily need to hit 7k ourselves. As we wishlist the game, especially at the pace we've been doing, steam *will* start to seed Haven into pre-release publicity for people searching for upcoming games in certain genres aka start to show it off organically. This is well before it hits the "popular upcoming" list. So, we just need to seed the game. But because of Haven's accelerated release schedule of next month, we need to push it there quickly so that it starts to snowball faster.
This is not unobtainable. There are 7,051 upcoming releases currently listed on steam, and 1,186 of them are in the popular upcoming releases category. That means we only need to be in the top 17% or so. Haven clearly has an established fan base that can make that happen.