{"id":3868,"date":"2012-05-16T16:02:07","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T16:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-average.com\/?p=3868"},"modified":"2012-05-16T16:05:01","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T16:05:01","slug":"briefly-topical-eveonline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/briefly-topical-eveonline\/","title":{"rendered":"Briefly Topical (#eveonline)"},"content":{"rendered":"

So this was on the login screen for Eve this morning:<\/p>\n

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In space, no one can hear you mock.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For those who are unaware, Diablo III recently released, and those numbers are Diablo 3 error codes that are preventing people – most people, apparently – from playing.<\/p>\n

I have to admit, I laughed hard when I saw it. It’s damn funny.<\/p>\n

With that said, it’s kind of the cool thing to laugh at the 800 pound gorilla when he trips and falls. Blizzard is that gorilla, and this is certainly a trip and a fall, so I guess I’m sitting on the bandwagon.<\/p>\n

CB made a counterpoint to this; Eve is, as much as he enjoys it, a game with a much smaller player base than Diablo’s (thus far hypothetical) throng of adherents, so to see the devs mock the gorilla when your single-shard server “only” has to deal with roughly 45 thousand simultaneous worldwide logins at a given moment looks a little bit disingenuous.<\/p>\n

And maybe it is. CCP has said its current server hardware could theoretically handle upwards of 1 to 1.5 million concurrent players, but who’s to say if that’s true?<\/p>\n

Fact is, it doesn’t matter: they are not required to.<\/p>\n

Diablo III’s servers, on the other hand, are<\/em> required to and, more importantly, the fact that they were going to be hit with this kind of load is in no way, shape, or form a surprise<\/em>. To anyone.<\/p>\n

In the words of a certain Burning Crusade trailer, Blizzard was not prepared.<\/p>\n

When the 800 pound gorilla falls out of his own tree, I do believe it’s fair to point it out, even if you can’t climb the tree yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So this was on the login screen for Eve this morning: For those who are unaware, Diablo III recently released,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[103,104,83],"class_list":["post-3868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mmos","category-musing","tag-blizzard","tag-ccp","tag-eve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3870,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3868\/revisions\/3870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}