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Despite running load tests that simulated 200,000 users, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 devs admit that they 'completely underestimated' how many players would actually want to play their game (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 1 day ago by Brkdncr to c/[email protected]
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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] 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

You know Microsoft isn’t, like, one individual dude right?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago

No, it's a multinational 3.1 trillion dollar company that has many in house resources it could pull on for a project like this. If they're gonna sell a product with this kind of server reliance built in, it's on them to actually hold up their end of the bargain instead of "oh oops looks like the game is just too much of a success guys".

[–] Homescool 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I think their point is that Microsoft literally had all the information they needed to prevent this from happening and they just didn't because they were incompetent or some other human reason that had nothing to do with server capacity or or a missing Ethernet cable. There was nothing "unknown" here.

Scaling to meet demand is literally their job. Supposedly best, which is why they have been awarded military contracts.

They lost situational awareness, or they never had it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

Yeah that was exactly my feelings, I'm actually impressed you got that from my low effort vitreol haha

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bill Microsoft

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

and Melinda Apple

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

No Melinda hasn't been a Microsoft since the divorce. You're thinking of Tim Apple.