What I don't get is, WoW carries ten times the load of million players, so Blizzard should have server stability under control by now. Also, they had a 8 month beta to test the effectiveness and prepare their servers. I don't understand why they're not prepared for this...
What I don't get is, WoW carries ten times the load of million players, so Blizzard should have server stability under control by now. Also, they had a 8 month beta to test the effectiveness and prepare their servers. I don't understand why they're not prepared for this...
Oh well, we all tried within a fraction of second window, in the number of millions. I think you simply can not prepare for that. They can handle large number of players. Just not trying to login in the same moment.
^^this. Basically the launch of this game causes the fans to do a large scale DDoS attack on the login servers. Not malicious, just trying to log in, all at once. in the hundreds of thousands at least, possibly millions. The fact that anyone can get in immediately is quite a feat of engineering to survive such a large scale "attack".
^^this. Basically the launch of this game causes the fans to do a large scale DDoS attack on the login servers. Not malicious, just trying to log in, all at once. in the hundreds of thousands at least, possibly millions. The fact that anyone can get in immediately is quite a feat of engineering to survive such a large scale "attack".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS7UuG_P6Ow