Dune Awakening devs: “No private servers at launch” but “could” be done after

We spoke to Dune Awakening’s Creative Director, Joel Bylos, about the upcoming survival MMO. After playing the game for an hour and exploring Hagga Basin, our conversation touched on the server situation for the game. Funcom’s main title aside from the Arrakis MMO is Conan Exiles which, running since 2018, notably supports dedicated servers.

We first discussed what the server structure is going to look like at launch: “We have multiple servers on a farm,” Bylos said. “The map you played yesterday, Hagga Basin, so there’s multiple versions of it that players can join. Then you go into the social hub, then you go into the deep…