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They don't. The updates require you to have a valid account with Impulse and the updates are what point you to the correct servers. The problem was that with G

They don't. The updates require you to have a valid account with Impulse and the updates are what point you to the correct servers. The problem was that with Gamestop breaking the street date, people were playing with legitimate and pirated copies of the game before Stardock was ready to support the rush of people playing. The issues were compounded by various not-so-great decisions like having the game try to connect to the servers and check for updates whenever it is booted up. So, you had thousands of pirated copies hammering the servers trying to login, causing problems for the legit owners.

sho 18y ago
"you had thousands of pirated copies hammering the servers trying to login, causing problems" A few thousand failed login attempts caused problems? Sounds like they need a new systems administrator/DBA. A well configured authentication system should be able to easily say "no" to practically unlimited numbers of login attempts. "High value target" production systems often decline many thousands of invalid auth attempts per minute. Unless the client is unbelievably badly coded (ie keep trying to login every second, indefinitely), that's not even the beginning of a good explanation.
- Goronmon 18y ago
  I did say among other things, and one of the issues was that things were still running on the beta servers initially, which were not configured for the load they had come Monday through Tuesday. I am trying to mention this from memory, so I may have the specifics wrong. Edit: Again, this all stems from Gamestop breaking the street date, and not by only a day or two either but the Friday prior.
  - sho 18y ago
    Fair enough, sorry for sounding like I was jumping down your throat! Ha, I can imagine how it went down now. "Yes boss, we'll bring the production servers online over the weekend, all ready for the launch on Monday" ..
    - Goronmon 18y ago
      Actually, the game was supposed to launch that Tuesday. I think they said a lot of employees were supposed to have that Monday off for Easter weekend.

sho 18y ago

"you had thousands of pirated copies hammering the servers trying to login, causing problems" A few thousand failed login attempts caused problems? Sounds like they need a new systems administrator/DBA. A well configured authentication system should be able to easily say "no" to practically unlimited numbers of login attempts. "High value target" production systems often decline many thousands of invalid auth attempts per minute. Unless the client is unbelievably badly coded (ie keep trying to login every second, indefinitely), that's not even the beginning of a good explanation.

Goronmon 18y ago
I did say among other things, and one of the issues was that things were still running on the beta servers initially, which were not configured for the load they had come Monday through Tuesday. I am trying to mention this from memory, so I may have the specifics wrong. Edit: Again, this all stems from Gamestop breaking the street date, and not by only a day or two either but the Friday prior.
- sho 18y ago
  Fair enough, sorry for sounding like I was jumping down your throat! Ha, I can imagine how it went down now. "Yes boss, we'll bring the production servers online over the weekend, all ready for the launch on Monday" ..
  - Goronmon 18y ago
    Actually, the game was supposed to launch that Tuesday. I think they said a lot of employees were supposed to have that Monday off for Easter weekend.