Five years ago this month, a quarter of a million people picked up swords at the same time and started swinging at each other. Chivalry 2 was out. We’d spent a long time getting ready for that day, and it still beat every number anyone had planned for — roughly double the best-case forecast in the first hour alone.
We’d been with Torn Banner and Tripwire since well before then. The first stress tests started about 15 months ahead of launch, running against live infrastructure through a closed alpha. By the time the game shipped, the setup had already been through a beta, held up under load no staging environment can fake, and had real bugs — found by players on Discord, not us — caught and fixed before anyone bought the game. So when launch day landed at twice the forecast, the servers just kept going. Players in Tokyo and Seoul, regions nobody had circled on the map, were in low-latency matches within hours.
That was 2021. The nice part is how little has changed since. Six years into working together, we’re still the ones running Chivalry 2’s dedicated servers around the world — spinning them up when a weekend gets busy, winding them back down when it quiets, the same way we did on day one. The match you drop into tonight is running on a partnership we started building back in 2020.
“Five years in, Chivalry 2 is still going strong, and Gameye has been part of that since before we launched. They’ve scaled with us through every spike, in every region, and they’re still the team keeping our servers running today.”
— Mike Stone, Senior Publishing Producer, Tripwire Interactive
That’s honestly the part we’re proud of — not the launch-day numbers, but the fact that we’re still here, a lot of patches and seasons later.
“We’ve been alongside Torn Banner and Tripwire for six years now, from the first alpha test to a live game with a community that won’t quit. Powering Chivalry 2 is something the whole team here is proud of — and we’re not going anywhere.”
— Sebastiaan Heijne, CEO, Gameye
To everyone who’s charged in, lost a limb, and hit respawn to do it again: happy fifth. See you on the battlefield.
New to Chivalry 2, or just after an excuse to jump back in? Everything official — news, updates, and the latest from Torn Banner — lives at chivalry2.com. You can pick up the game on:
- Steam — PC
- Epic Games Store — PC
- PlayStation Store — PS4 & PS5
- Xbox — Xbox One & Series X|S
Or see every option in one place on the official Chivalry 2 buy page.
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