They had no problems taking everyone’s money. Maybe companies should limit the number of sales when deploying a product tied to services they operate and need to scale.
Does it really add that much more than the terrain we had 20 years ago?
The peak concurrent users for the game thus far has been less than 1/10th of that (EDIT: slightly more than 1/10th of that). They were well within the bounds of what they simulated. They just screwed up.
Yeah from what I hear, they kept the shitty self-downloader of the first one that is obscenely slow and counts as “playtime” because the game is open while downloading.
This is on Microsoft, they can make as many excuses as they want, but they fucked it up.
Didn’t account for the initial interest peak.
No, that’s what I’m saying. That peak is well under what they claimed they simulated.
Peak concurrent was marred by the game not being playable. It’s not really a good indicator here.
It is, because everyone trying to download assets from the game servers were doing so from the executable that Steam tracks as running.
You don’t have to buy it from steam, might’ve been more users from gamepass and xbox than steam?
Perhaps, but 10x as many? I suppose it’s possible, but I don’t think it’s likely.
It’s not, because downloading assets was not working, and with it not working eventually the user will shut it down thus having an effect on peak concurrent. It’s not even that complex. If people can play your game they will stay on it increasing the count, if people cannot play your game they will not, thus decreasing the count.
Exactly. The peak number of people trying to download it simultaneously was about 24k. They didn’t all stick around because it wasn’t working, even though that’s about 1/10th of what the devs expected and prepared for the demand to be. They didn’t get anywhere close to 200k people all hitting that server at once.
There’s no cloud, just someone else’s (underspecced) computer.
The devs of MS are fairly incompetent - look at all the first party games they’ve released, including ones from purchased studios.
Woah woah woah buddy did you even take a second to think about the profits? Selfish.
I thought about the profits and now I totally get it. Why are so many people trying to hurt the innocent money???
