Quote Originally Posted by Gula View Post
All the cash money in the world doesn't guarantee an immediate work force will sprout from thin air, fully qualified and able to to compensate for the unpredictability of a launch.
^This. Also, no server equipment on Earth can cope with an infinite number of people connecting at once - the amount of connections it can handle at one time is limited (the servers used on FFXI as an example as I understood it could supposedly withstand up to 200000 simultaneous connections, based on a really old magazine article circa 2001 about FFXI's development that I no longer own, and yet the game suffered lag and disconnections with barely 10% of that number), it's the nature of the beast. Yes some networks and their underlying infrastructure are better than others, but no network would cope with an enormous amount of people trying to connect at once (if they could, then DDoS attacks would not be possible at all).

Think of a server as a multilane freeway, they only have so many lanes and the entrance (the tollgate) can only cope with a certain number of people going through at once and you have to wait your turn. But if everyone tries accessing it at once it's going to not only gridlock but back up the connecting roads as well. There is little to nothing that can be done about it other than being patient, waiting your turn and being understanding. Ranting and raving and shouting for the freeway to be widened isn't going to miraculously give you access immediately - like a freeway it takes time to 'build' new infrastructure. And even then it would just get filled up by even more cars. Less road rage and more just sitting back in your seat and listening to the radio for a change while you wait for the traffic jam to sort itself out in time (and it will).

But then I think I pushed that metaphor too far.