{"id":107843,"date":"2020-01-22T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/01\/pokemon_clone_temtem_is_so_successful_its_servers_are_crumbling_under_demand"},"modified":"2020-01-22T17:05:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T17:05:00","slug":"pokemon-clone-temtem-is-so-successful-its-servers-are-crumbling-under-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/01\/22\/pokemon-clone-temtem-is-so-successful-its-servers-are-crumbling-under-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Clone Temtem Is So Successful Its Servers Are Crumbling Under Demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/260873a858645\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/260873a858645\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/260873a858645\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Pz5O2JvuwZc?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Crema Games has just released its monster-collecting MMO <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/temtem\">Temtem<\/a><\/strong> on <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/745920\/Temtem\/\">Steam early access<\/a>, and it&#8217;s proven to be so successful that players have <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kotaku.co.uk\/2020\/01\/22\/temtem-is-proving-too-popular-for-its-own-good\">had trouble getting online with the game<\/a>. Thankfully, it would seem that things are now <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/temtems-early-access-launch-suffers-from-bugs-and-server-disconnects\/\">settling down<\/a> after some updates, but people are still having trouble getting the game up and running smoothly \u2013 but then, isn&#8217;t that why &#8216;early access&#8217; is much fun?<\/p>\n<p>As you can see from the game&#8217;s launch trailer above, it&#8217;s all very &#8220;Pocket Monster&#8221;, complete with an anime-style aesthetic, catchy theme tune and a cast of cute beasts to collect. The key difference is that this is an MMO, which could take the whole &#8216;gotta catch &#8217;em all&#8217; concept to an entirely new level.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">UPDATE: My numbers were totally off. It looks now like maybe Temtem will have around 90k+ players in its first day, which could be 2m+ players in its first year<\/p>\n<p>I probably should have waited for day one to be over first huh<\/p>\n<p><\/span>\u2014 Mike Rose (@RaveofRavendale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RaveofRavendale\/status\/1220024181372399616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 22, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Funded by <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/cremagames\/temtem-massively-multiplayer-creature-collection-a\">Kickstarter<\/a> to the tune of $573,939 (the initial goal was $70,000), Temtem is published by Humble Bundle. It&#8217;s coming to Switch in the fullness of time, as well as PS4 and Xbox One.<\/p>\n<p>Will you be picking this one up on Switch, or have you already downloaded the Steam version? Let us know with a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Pz5O2JvuwZc?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507] Crema Games has just released its monster-collecting MMO Temtem on Steam early access, and it&#8217;s proven to be so successful that players have had trouble getting online with the game. Thankfully, it would seem that things are now settling down after some updates, but people are still having trouble getting the game up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}