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Blizzard is “confident” that Diablo IV’s launch servers can handle the load
- blinded 3y agoI know someone on call for these things. Its a firestorm.
- bombcar 3y agoThey're confident every single time they do this stuff, and it always queues and dies. Isn't the whole point of cloud things that you can scale up under initial load and then taper off when everyone stops playing?
- hinkley 3y agoDoor 1: You might not have enough servers for launch. You say so, and some people decide to binge Ted Lasso that night and wait a day or two to see if their friends are having fun. Door 2: you overpromise convincingly, and generate more traffic on launch day than if you had said nothing. So now you’re just hitting yourself. The thing with servers failing is that doubling the users always makes them at least 2log2 times slower, so there are any number of tricks you can do to cut traffic by 15% so you can cut congestion by 17%. Nowhere on that list is opening your fat stupid gob and tempting fate.
- deserialized 3y agoJust because the cloud exists doesn't mean you wrote your backend in such a way that it is fully disentangled from the rest of the application, nor that it was containerized and handed off to an orchestration engine which was properly configured to scale out horizontally across dynamically provisioned nodes. The games industry specifically has a chip on its shoulder with regards to linux and scaling as well as a general refusal to NOT poorly reinvent every wheel in C++ inside their windows-only desktop client. Otherwise you wouldn't see goofy shit like Square Enix halting sales of their game because they couldnt scale their snowflake out to general-purpose servers
- alex_lav 3y agoBlizzard is a joke of a company, so I am certain they cannot handle the traffic from their launch
- nathants 3y agoif only ec2 had more instances, we could all have nice things.