H1Z1 certainly had a rough launch, and it’s continued to have server issues. This has not stopped SOE from banning the 150 cheaters they just found.
150 People about to get banned for hacking 🙂
— John Smedley (@j_smedley) January 21, 2015
There was a point earlier this week when the game was down for over eight hours thanks to a recent patch which unintentionally brought in a bug.
10 new eu servers are up now. More coming in a bit
— John Smedley (@j_smedley) January 21, 2015
ok first 10 EU worlds are up. All the other 190 or so will end up going up in one big batch in 3-5 hours.
— John Smedley (@j_smedley) January 22, 2015
that will mean us taking servers down, but not like last night. this is just a down/up kind of thing. again though that's 3-5 hours
— John Smedley (@j_smedley) January 22, 2015
Most recently, they’ve been working on bringing in more European servers, and they revealed there will be temporary server outage again. This time, it’s a planned 3 to 5 hours dowtime to add even more servers.
tracking down a few servers that crashed and people can't get back into.
— John Smedley (@j_smedley) January 22, 2015