What does "this server is private and you have not been invited to play on it" mean?

Question

I tried logging in to Tibia just now. And I got this message "this server is private and you have not been invited to play on it".
I read on Tibia.com that they have had issues with a new update but... what does it really mean that the server is private and I'm not invited?

Answer 1

You weren't the only one experiencing this issue, as seen in this thread on the forums. I cannot go into detail with what Cipsoft was exactly doing but what they said about the downtime (November 19 2020) here and here is that they.."had to take all game worlds and the website offline due to critical technical issues related to yesterday's extensive changes in our backend infrastructure." So either this was done purposely to fix technical issues or this happened by mistake. But when a server is private that means simply it's closed off and only open to only certain people.

Comments

Okay, thank you :)