Game incentivized optimization of resource utilization

A computer program product for game incentivized resource utilization optimization in a multiplayer gaming environment, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a device to cause the device to perform a method comprising:

• hosting, by a device, a multiplayer gaming environment providing a game amongst a selection of servers in a cluster;
• detecting, by a device, overutilization of a resource in one of the servers;
• identifying, by a device, a remedial action associated with a reduction in overutilization, the remedial action comprising at least moving the player from a location of a virtual world of the game supported by the one of the servers to a different location of virtual world of the game supported by a different one of the servers;
• further identifying, by a device a presence of related players in the different location of the virtual world of the game supported by a different one of the servers;
• consulting a mapping of incentives with the identified remedial action to identify an incentive of the game associated with a provocation of the identified remedial action, the incentive comprising a notification presented to the player in the game of the presence of the related players in the different location;
• and, providing, by a device, the identified game incentive to a player in the multiplayer gaming environment.