Legacy players expected to wait... again.

[Seriphim85]

It still kills me that people that have no clue how expensive the hardware behind the game costs say "just buy new servers and shut them down when not needed". Something to handle this kind of concurrent database transactions runs no less than $30,000 US. That's just the server, not any backplanes, racks, power strips, switches, nics etc.. All that and you're running at MINIMUM $50k a pop for a new "world". In the long run if they were 300% sure those servers would be needed and justified there would be no issues just standing up another 80 worlds and waiting to regain the costs. However with any service that is completely dependent on subscription it will wax and wain and eventually dwindle into nothing.

Tell you what if you're willing to foot the bill for well over the worlds average household income so you can have another server send them a check.

[darkstarpoet1]

It still kills me that people that have no clue how expensive the hardware behind the game costs say "just buy new servers and shut them down when not needed". Something to handle this kind of concurrent database transactions runs no less than $30,000 US. That's just the server, not any backplanes, racks, power strips, switches, nics etc.. All that and you're running at MINIMUM $50k a pop for a new "world". In the long run if they were 300% sure those servers would be needed and justified there would be no issues just standing up another 80 worlds and waiting to regain the costs. However with any service that is completely dependent on subscription it will wax and wain and eventually dwindle into nothing.

Tell you what if you're willing to foot the bill for well over the worlds average household income so you can have another server send them a check.

if i get the subs paid for people on that that server it would make 50k is a drop in the bucket. if you added another 2 legacy servers they would still be at max.

[Mentally]

It still kills me that people that have no clue how expensive the hardware behind the game costs say "just buy new servers and shut them down when not needed". Something to handle this kind of concurrent database transactions runs no less than $30,000 US. That's just the server, not any backplanes, racks, power strips, switches, nics etc.. All that and you're running at MINIMUM $50k a pop for a new "world". In the long run if they were 300% sure those servers would be needed and justified there would be no issues just standing up another 80 worlds and waiting to regain the costs

HAHAHAHA you kill me Seriphim..... I hate to tell you... but servers that can run that amount of concurrent users do not run in the $50k range... you had it right if you just stuck with the $30k range...

But... as NONE of us work for SE and are part of them buying servers we ALL can only speculate on what it is that they purchased to handle this kind of load.

[Mamba]

LIES!! :P

Even Miqotes can't be that lucky

I am

A lot of it really does depend on if you are NA or not...

I generally log in at 6pm(ish) UK time (7pm GMT/UTC) I rarely have any queue longer than 2 or 3 mins. I almost never see 1017 anymore.

Or maybe my luck indeed have something to do with being in GMT+1 timezone, when I log on, US is waking up to go to work and UK is just rushing to the overpacked tube