BF4 is a poor reference point though really. It only has 64 players on a server, not thousands.
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Still a viable reference. They do what is needed to please their playerbase, they do it fast, they communicate, they inform us of whats being done and what needs more work. And most likely, many 64 player servers are hosted by the same server hardware, much like how many BG instances in WoW or any other MMO are hosted on the same hardware. So all in all, you fairly easy get thousands of players trafficing on each server even in BF4, since the servers are hosted by EA now. But all this can be said about many MMO games/companies too.
SE does none of that, they still havent optimized their engine, people still suffer severe lag and so on. And the worst part is, they have close to zero communication with their players. I'm still surprised that we wont get more free time of this beta quality game.
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