Quote Originally Posted by DarkSeifer View Post
The fact that it's accepted that most games will have problems on launch day is kind of ridiculous. It IS actually possible to be fully prepared. You can rent equipment to do temporary upgrades to infrastructure. I mean honestly... if game companies just took what they thought they would need, then doubled it, we wouldn't ever have this problem. Keep the rented equipment for a few weeks to a month and you're golden. It's so easy to do this in this day and age. I don't accept that it's the norm for launches to be this unstable.
You know the difference between the IT team there saying we'll need X amount of hardware to cover this or it'll fail hard and the Finance department actually allowing/paying it? SE is a business and this, as frustrating as it is will not really damage the game's subscription in the slightest so they'll see it as an acceptable or low rated risk in not paying for additional hardware.