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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I’ma press X to doubt here.

They're not going to be using cloud services

Job listing for back-end engineer at Arrowhead says:

  • Cloud Engineering: Utilize Azure services to build and optimize cloud-based backend components and make use of monitoring tools to track live performance.

Our tech stack

  • NET/C#, Docker, Kubernetes/AKS, Azure, SQL Server, CosmosDB, Redis, Grafana, Terraform

Early days playercount woes were before they added more nodes to their solution.

CEO said during the early day playercount woes:

It’s not a matter of money or buying more servers. It’s a matter of labour. We need to optimise the backend code. We are hitting some real limits.

They can't just fire the people maintaining their solution either but that's also baby bucks

A good back-end engineer is at least 100k. And a just-keep-the-lights-on crew is probably 3-4 of them.

FWIW: I also work in IT, on an IoT system that you might also assume has a “nonexistent” server cost. (I assure you, the cost exists.) I also used to work in game dev.

That said: Yeah, protesting by playing the game is a severely misguided notion.