{"id":89190,"date":"2026-09-10T14:03:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T18:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89190"},"modified":"2026-09-10T14:43:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T18:43:47","slug":"wardogs-has-a-massive-start-on-steam-but-players-face-brutal-server-queues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89190","title":{"rendered":"Wardogs Has A Massive Start On Steam, But Players Face Brutal Server Queues"},"content":{"rendered":"\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) <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1867240\/WARDOGS\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1867240\/WARDOGS\/\">launched today in early access<\/a> on Steam, and it&#8217;s off to a hot start. The shooter reached <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/charts\/mostplayed\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/charts\/mostplayed\">300,000 peak concurrent users on Steam <\/a>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/shooter-climbing-steam-charts-lists-10-reasons-not-to-buy-it\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/shooter-climbing-steam-charts-lists-10-reasons-not-to-buy-it\/\">told you not to buy<\/a>.<\/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 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ModernWarzone\/status\/2098098285244207270\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ModernWarzone\/status\/2098098285244207270\">more than 300,000 people in line in front of them<\/a>. Yeesh.<\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CpQnZgZCIo8  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bulkhead responded to the brutal queueing situation, saying it was <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WARDOGS\/status\/2098088030686879852\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WARDOGS\/status\/2098088030686879852\">partly due<\/a> 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WARDOGS\/status\/2098096580670759056\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WARDOGS\/status\/2098096580670759056\">kick everyone from the queue<\/a> 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<\/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 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&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":89192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89193,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89190\/revisions\/89193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}