They had no problems taking everyone’s money. Maybe companies should limit the number of sales when deploying a product tied to services they operate and need to scale.
The peak concurrent users for the game thus far has been less than 1/10th of that (EDIT: slightly more than 1/10th of that). They were well within the bounds of what they simulated. They just screwed up.
Yeah from what I hear, they kept the shitty self-downloader of the first one that is obscenely slow and counts as “playtime” because the game is open while downloading.
This is on Microsoft, they can make as many excuses as they want, but they fucked it up.
It’s ok tho they’re making server complexes out of wood now!
/s
Where are you getting that number?
Didn’t account for the initial interest peak.
No, that’s what I’m saying. That peak is well under what they claimed they simulated.
I have a friend who plays, and they suggested that maybe putting it right onto gamepass – allowing Johnbro McFuck to download it, get lost in a cloud, crash into the ocean and never play again – during the launch window might not have been a great idea.
The devs of MS are fairly incompetent - look at all the first party games they’ve released, including ones from purchased studios.
The devs of MS are fairly incompetent
Or corporate executives push unrealistic expectations onto them
With Microsoft it can sometimes be really hard to tell if it was the devs, management, or both tbh.
Sounds like a fake humblebrag.
Woah woah woah buddy did you even take a second to think about the profits? Selfish.
A new Flight Sim is out already? God dammit, I barely had time to play FS2020… Less than 10 hours.
Does it really add that much more than the terrain we had 20 years ago?
Flight simulator needed a better people simulator.
Almost every major release ever f’s up the server demand. Whether it be downloading the content or players looking to join games.
They know the bitching will happen, buy everyone’s already handed over the cash, so too bad. They budget enough servers to just keep the complaints from lasting too long. Then everyone forgets and finds some other facet of the game to call “unplayable”.
