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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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

But yeah it definitely sounds like thier test for 200k players probably had bigger instances provisioned than what they ended up using in the production release 😅

You'd think they'd be able to do some sort of auto scaling when demand goes up though... 😅