Wolcen Drops To Mixed Overall Reviews As Negative Criticism Piles Up Amidst Botched Launch

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Published on February 18, 2020 12:53:51 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZRjnx2CpDc

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Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem (2020)

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Wolcen Drops To Mixed Overall Reviews As Negative Criticism Piles Up Amidst Botched Launch
It seems that 2020 has been the year of rough launches. January saw the disastrous launch of Warcraft III: Reforged, a game so bad that became Blizzard’s worst launch ever – as well as one of the worst in general, currently still sitting at 0.5 on Metacritic. Now it seems that Wolcen, a highly-anticipated hack-and-slash game that looked like it could even give the Diablo franchise a run for their money, has had about as bad a launch as it could’ve.

Wolcen spent several years in early access, originally launching in March of 2016. That’s just less than four years that this title spent in early access, so you would think that’s plenty of time to iron out all the bugs, right?

Unfortunately, it seems that Wolcen missed a few hundred bugs. At the moment of launch, the multiplayer servers were practically unplayable, with players constantly being disconnected, falling through the earth, or any other problem from the vast myriad of issues.

In their efforts to fix the issues, Wolcen’s developers incidentally made things significantly worse. We’ll let their official announcement, posted on Sunday, speak for itself:

“After applying a hotfix last Friday, users reported that their characters were missing, their stashes emptied, and their endgame progression wiped. Immediately we took the decision to shut down servers to prevent this from happening to a large amount of players while we find a way to fix it.”

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