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by ASalazarMX 915 days ago
Unless someone convinced someone that they should prepared in case they become BIG and get millions of concurrent users.

And even then, nothing is sure. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Pokémon Go, thanks to an adaptation of game mechanics, literally exploded in users. Despite being world-scale, they struggled for a couple of weeks to meet the workload. World-scale naturally degrades to normal-scale if you don't stress it regularly.