We've been busy fighting DDoS attacks over the last few weeks. We'd like to thank you for your patience while we face this storm.
Dread Hunger is selling well beyond our wildest expectations, which is simultaneously exciting and terrifying.
The problems we have faced building indie games, versus the problems we are now facing scaling a massive multiplayer hit are dramatically different.
We have a veteran team, with many of us having worked on games beyond this scale before - but only as a part of bigger teams. Right now, there are 8 people working full time on Dread Hunger.
We have a raft of tough challenges to solve. Infrastructure scaling and performance issues, cyber-security issues, and even team members going down to COVID. As with all games, Dread Hunger has its own unique fingerprint that means some of the issues hit us in unique combinations around the clock and in an unrelenting fashion. Through all of that, we also need to keep our team focused on the game itself, because there's still so much to do to help Dread Hunger reach its potential.
We've made massive progress. Many of the issues that we were struggling with a month ago are now solved. Attacks and limitations that were stumbling blocks last week no longer are. But the growth is such that we get new issues on an almost daily basis.
We're incredibly humbled and appreciative of the great industry teams that have been reaching out and sharing what they can to help us navigate some of these problems. We're continuing to bring on help, and the people supporting us are making us more resilient.
Our utmost gratitude and thanks to players for bearing with us while outages hit. We understand how much it sucks not being able to play the game. Sadly there's no silver bullet for these issues and no amount of money that just solves things. But we remain committed to doing our very best and improving things as rapidly as possible.
- The Dread Hunger Team
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