Destructoid explains why players of the game WARDOGS are being placed in a virtual queue before they can start playing. The queue appears on the home screen after shaders have finished compiling, and it is a deliberate safeguard rather than a fault, designed to stop the game's servers from being overwhelmed by too many simultaneous players.

The article attributes the queue to WARDOGS' huge launch on Steam, with concurrent players approaching 300,000, which risks overloading or even crashing servers without a system to let people in sequentially. Players are advised simply to wait their turn rather than closing the game, as doing so could push them further back in the queue and lengthen their wait.