Sometimes I remember the D3 Real Money AH and am struck by how awe inspiring it was as a project. Design, implementation, legal, global currencies and fraud. The impact to game drops obviously wasn’t cool, but outside of that... It’s just incredible it was pulled off at all.
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You're not wrong. I don't take launch week of any online game off anymore. I learned my lesson across wow and diablo
Well don’t stay away too long! With AWS and other virtual servers the ability to expand and contract to additional bandwidth and processing power is only getting better, meaning launches should only get smoother over time.
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Like the D3 launch was “well, how long will it take to purchase and build additional hardware?” Which is kind of crazy to think about because not that many years later and all of that is virtualized. It can take *hours* to spin up additional capacity vs. weeks.
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I actually can talk to that, seeing as I work with could systems, hyperconverged hardware, and other server stuff. I was floored with how badly ms handled sea of thieves. Like.. They own azure. They literally have the ability to spin up additional servers for load. . And didn't
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