1047 Games’ free to play fps Splitgate has hit such large player numbers that queues to play can take up to 90 minutes, despite increased server capacity.Splitgate originally went into early access in 2019 with little fanfare.
However, a recent surge of popularity caused servers to reach capacity. This forced the developers to delay their planned 1.0 release so that they could increase server capacity.Despite this, logging into the game can lead to queues of up to 90 minutes as the servers reach maximum player counts.
Some of this can be attributed to the fact that the game is cross-platform and cross-generation, so all clients connect to the same servers regardless of hardware.The developers took to Twitter to explain the issues they faced.
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