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by Umn55
3903 days ago
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" It's really hard to test for all that traffic in advance" There's this thing, they're called dedicated servers. The reality is that game companies CEO's/execs don't want to pay for quality when they can push it out now get the money and patch later, aka. They put in the least effort. The whole thing is intentional at big companies, a combination of intentionality and incompetence at small ones. |
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I do not disagree on your point that it might be a combination of intention and incompetence, although I think most of them really do not want to see downtime and negative press at release date, when they sell the most. So next to intention and incompetence there is also a strong incentive for them to prevent this from happening.
But the orignal point I was making is that scaling up all of a sudden for an enormous amount of people/traffic is intrinsically very hard, so its easy for them to underestimate the effort needed, and pay deeply for that on launch date (and we too as gamers).