Multiplayer social deduction recreation Goose Goose Duck has been affected by “assaults” on its servers for the final two months, developer Gaggle Studios has revealed.
This week, Goose Goose Duck was briefly taken offline following an incident that Gaggle Studios has described as a “large assault” on the sport’s servers.
“We underwent an enormous assault this morning and subsequently took our servers down to keep up and reinforce them,” posted the developer on Tuesday (January 10). “None of your information was compromised.”
Elaborating, Gaggle Studios revealed that the sport has been “present process assaults for about two months now,” nevertheless the studio “decided to keep away from mentioning it additional in order to not alarm gamers.”
“The mix of the assault and our excessive participant numbers (600 thousand CCU’s) left us susceptible,” added Gaggle Studios, who specified that it couldn’t share particular particulars relating to its cybersecurity measures attributable to safeguarding considerations.
On account of the assault, Goose Goose Duck was left unplayable till Wednesday (January 11), but detrimental Steam critiques left since then – as recently as today (January 13) – nonetheless point out coping with server points.
Regardless of that, Goose Goose Duck has confirmed to be extremely common since turning into a breakout hit in December 2022. Following BTS’ V livestreaming the sport in January, Gaggle Studios’ hit went on to interrupt Steam playercount data and SteamDB at the moment lists it because the third most-played recreation on Steam.
With a concurrent playercount of 294,316 at time of writing, Goose Goose Duck outranks the likes of Apex Legends, FIFA 23, Elden Ring, and Grand Theft Auto 5.
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