{"id":83949,"date":"2026-09-11T02:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=83949"},"modified":"2026-09-11T02:40:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T18:40:00","slug":"wardogs-has-a-massive-start-on-steam-but-players-face-brutal-sever-queues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=83949","title":{"rendered":"Wardogs Has A Massive Start On Steam, But Players Face Brutal Sever Queues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/WD.jpg?w=300\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A big new military FPS, Wardogs (not to be confused with the 2016 Jonah Hill\/Miles Teller crime-comedy War Dogs) launched today in early access on Steam, and it&#8217;s off to a hot start. The shooter reached 300,000 peak concurrent users on Steam right out of the gate and the $40 game is currently Steam&#8217;s No. 1 best-seller. Pretty impressive for a game that the developer told you not to buy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Given the flood of players, developer Bulkhead instituted a server queue system, and this quickly became something of a meme on social media. Players shared screenshots of the queue and their place in it&#8211;some people reported having more than 300,000 people in line in front of them. Yeesh.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WARDOGS | Launch Trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CpQnZgZCIo8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bulkhead responded to the brutal queueing situation, saying it was partly due to the developer being &#8220;rate limited.&#8221; The company said it was working with Valve to resolve this limit and get an increase in line with &#8220;larger titles.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Things got worse, temporarily albeit, for some, as Bulkhead made the decision to kick everyone from the queue as a fix that, in theory, would help more players get into the game faster. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bulkhead boss Joe Brammer gave an update on the queuing situation, saying the queue itself is not &#8220;specifically broken,&#8221; but instead he said Wardogs didn&#8217;t get the kind of treatment that AAA games receive when it comes to rate limits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Hang in there,&#8221; Brammer said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">Queue information <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OvkWGhka75\">pic.twitter.com\/OvkWGhka75<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Joe Brammer (@Brammflakes) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Brammflakes\/status\/2098101353595724112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 10, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That wasn&#8217;t the extent of the launch-day issues, as people reported getting banned for seemingly no reason. Bulkhead said it&#8217;s aware of these &#8220;incorrect bans&#8221; and is working to address them immediately.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wardogs is a large-scale military FPS featuring 100 players, divided into three teams, on a map battling it out in a fictional version of Eastern Europe. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to launching Wardogs into early access, Bulkhead revealed that the game&#8217;s console edition for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S will be released in 2028.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/wardogs-has-a-massive-start-on-steam-but-players-face-brutal-sever-queues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A big new military FPS, Wardogs (not to be confused with the 2016 Jonah Hill\/Miles Teller crime-comedy War Dogs) launched today in early access on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[44,3507,5979,3392,10024,29837,1588,3418,19987],"class_list":["post-83949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-brutal","tag-face","tag-massive","tag-players","tag-queues","tag-sever","tag-start","tag-steam","tag-wardogs","wpcat-32-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/83952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}