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Helldivers 2’s concurrent Steam player count is now higher than all other PlayStation PC launches combined (www.videogameschronicle.com)
submitted 9 months ago by CosmicSploogeDrizzle to c/playstation
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

this is a sequel to a 10 year old game that had a peak concurrent user of 6.5K and sold about 2M copies over that time. helldivers2 has sold between 2-8M in a week.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't change the fact that the backend apparently doesn't scale; I was just pointing out that it might not be an easy fix to do post hoc

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah people love to trash on them "just add more servers duh 4head" but don't understand how complex it can be

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Exactly! Designing a truly horizontally scalable system for something like this is damn hard and requires pretty specialized knowledge. It's often the case that it simply isn't possible to scale up the first version of some system you come up with since you may need to eg. completely rethink how clients communicate, or how you manage state updates and propagation, or need to rethink the consistency model you use to store the state over multiple nodes etc.