It's funny how Microsoft did pretty much everything to alienate their consumer base, much like Sony had with the PS3 release.
And even though I've had a Playstation since Uncharted 2, I've been a Microsoft follower for 8 years, but I can't abide with what they are doing with XBOX ONE. I was really hoping for Sony to pick up the slack and not fuck it up like they had this generation and looks like they delivered.
Thank god for competitive environment.
Cya in one generation Microsoft, because this one is all Sony.
You guys realize that Diablo 3 had the exact same problem for about 2 weeks right?
How exactly is this an excuse for EAs apparent ignorance? They could have and they should have learned from that experience. It's the exact opposite of an excuse, it goes to show that they simply don't fucking care. Saving money on server infrastructure, clearly worth it …
Translation: I don't understand server costs and a willfully ignorant gamer who will wah wah wah not understanding how the world works, gimmie my bottle!
You think that Blizzard didn't know how many people would go play diablo 3? Activision blizzard has 7738 employees and you think that they are all so dumb to not know that Diablo 3 is going to be some super popular game?
If you need to support more players you need to buy more boxes of servers for the more players you plan to support simultaneously. Does it make any sense for you to support the 3 million people out the gate when the game is launched, spend millions on these physical server boxes, setting them up, installing your linux distros and server programs only for that number of simultaneous users to go down to 300 000, two weeks later? Blizzard makes the same choices, Valve makes the same choices, and EA does as well. It simply doesn't make any economic sense to spend millions of dollars on server boxes just for 72 hours of a single games life that is only going to happen for 2 days out of something like 3 years.
why don't they just rent servers to like amazon or something?
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