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[Divinemights]

Oh shit here we go again

I would be lying if I said I didnt expect the seasons and math troll to make a thread on this.

Pretty hilarious they think SE buy their server hardware on amazon. I'm sure they have their own vendors to go to.

They do buy server from one manufacturer only for the stability because they are going to familiar with the hardware.
This is why you rarely seeing any issue during patch or launch day

[RitsukoSonoda]

OP seems to like putting their foot in their mouth on the forum by making posts like this where all they do is demonstrate their lack of knowledge or intelligence.

[Jeeqbit]

They need a lot of these machines for each server, because several areas are on each machine. Areas include locations you go to only once for a quest, so that is a lot of machines. Maybe it is hard to get that many of the same machine in one go or maybe the specifications are high and more competitive than what we would think, but it is hard for us to understand it when we could buy one on amazon or rent one easily.

[Divinemights]

Instead of buying new servers why is the game punishing players by locking up the servers? All of Aether is now congested, which means no one can make new characters on or even transfer to Aether.

The players have given you so much money. Why don't you just buy new servers? Silicon shortage is an excuse when you can easily find a lot of servers on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07RJT19GS...3CMZKH965SVHWQ

All you need to do is to buy the servers and ship it to the data center then connect them to a power supply. Seriously how hard is that? Instead we're punished as players. We only need 4 or 5 more servers to alleviate the congestion. That's like $3000 including shipping. The game makes like millions of dollars. This is a drop in the ocean. We need to demand them to buy new servers on Amazon and unlock Aether NOW.

Go read Yoship's statement.
If you are not working in the field of networking, get off your high house because server is never plug N play.

[EverQuest]

Wow server blades in 2007 where estimated to be around 15k a piece. Also they don't need to buy anything and return it. That would be a huge pain. I'd imagine the IT team has discussed what they want for this project. I'm happy you where able to amazon up some examples, but the reality is that's not the route there taking whether or not the route could function in theory is irrelevant. As someone with a friend that's the Director of IT at microage that routinely sells to blizzard I can assure you this amazon method isn't the route there taking. If you'd like I'll see if he can ballpark some of blizzards expenses, the last time I asked it was in the multi millions though.

So unfortunately even if somehow they we're able to amazon plug in play this in a day as suggested it doesn't matter because that's not the route they're taking.

When you run SE you can change it up. Right now you can vote with your wallet and unsubscribe.

[nelothi]

Instead of buying new servers why is the game punishing players by locking up the servers? All of Aether is now congested, which means no one can make new characters on or even transfer to Aether.

The players have given you so much money. Why don't you just buy new servers? Silicon shortage is an excuse when you can easily find a lot of servers on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07RJT19GS...3CMZKH965SVHWQ

All you need to do is to buy the servers and ship it to the data center then connect them to a power supply. Seriously how hard is that? Instead we're punished as players. We only need 4 or 5 more servers to alleviate the congestion. That's like $3000 including shipping. The game makes like millions of dollars. This is a drop in the ocean. We need to demand them to buy new servers on Amazon and unlock Aether NOW.

i cant tell if this is a shit post or not...

on one hand.. he must know that you simply cannot just throw any server into your network stack...
on the other hand.. maybe hes dumb?

[Kes13a]

pretty sure ANY reasonable multinational company isnt going to trust something they got out of the back of a moving van for... 600 dollars.

[SnowVix]

i cant tell if this is a shit post or not...

on one hand.. he must know that you simply cannot just throw any server into your network stack...
on the other hand.. maybe hes dumb?

This is the same person who thinks 1 is prime, Japan only has one data center, and November is part of winter.

[Jeeqbit]

As someone with a friend that's the Director of IT at microage that routinely sells to blizzard I can assure you this amazon method isn't the route there taking.

Maybe your friend could help Square Enix.

[Divinemights]

This is the same person who thinks 1 is prime, Japan only has one data center, and November is part of winter.

oh, is this the same person?