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As longs as we're speculating.. One of the few things I can think of that can't reasonably be sped up is data integrity recovery. Say some data got in an incons

As longs as we're speculating.. One of the few things I can think of that can't reasonably be sped up is data integrity recovery. Say some data got in an inconsistent state and now they have to manually restore a whole bunch of financial transactions or something before opening the game up again, because otherwise customers would get very mad at missing stuff they've paid for, traded, etc. If they were to resume the game before restoring these issues, they would only exacerbate with state moving even further from where it was originally.

g123g 5y ago
Wouldn't it be cheaper to directly compensate such customers rather than keeping the whole website down for 3 days?
- bryanrasmussen 5y ago
  maybe, but wouldn't you have to recuperate the data to be able to figure out what customers you owed and how much?
  - charcircuit 5y ago
    Just ask people to send in support tickets
    - TeMPOraL 5y ago
      Right, but as soon as people get wind of what you're doing, you'll be drowning in fraudulent tickets.
    - marcooliv 5y ago
      This is a possible way to get free items. They have millions of players, check every ticket seems not scalable. No?
  - fieldcny 5y ago
    Well you can get that from your transaction processor, doubt they do that themselves