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Old 05-15-2012, 01:48 PM   #609
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Originally Posted by ShaolinFlame View Post
I totally understand this argument and I haven't been angry or anything like that. But with the way internet architecture is these days couldn't they have rented a whole swath of backup servers for a week? Or would the work involved in something like that not be cost effective? Everybody is talking as if they would have had to buy all of those servers and eat years of extra overhead, rather than a short period of lease fees. Is that really how it works?
You could lease equipment, but within the scope of such a specialized application and the set up required means that a short term solution would be expensive enough that it really wouldn't make much sense. It's not like a Battlefeild server where you can simply add X number slots for $10 each a month.

Really, the problem will be solved within a week or so just by the virtue that not everyone in the world will be trying to play at the exact same instant. I am not the least bit stressed about it.

Since it happens with every release, you would this these people who have taken the time off would understand this and held off on booking that time during the first week. We all know that wouldn't happen though.
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