This is another reason not to pre-order (Destiny)

by Kahzgul, Tuesday, September 20, 2016, 16:57 (2827 days ago) @ Cody Miller

I don't get it. Bungie should know the exact number of people who pre-ordered the game. That means they should know exactly the capacity required. Right?

Unless a large amount of people like me bought the game at 1:50am, but I doubt it. Seems like they should have been able to predict capacity very accurately.

I know I've been on Reddit too much of late because I immediately looked for a way to give this some upvotes.

I wonder if we couldn't make a small fortune by leasing temporary login server time to video game companies who insist on foolishly rolling out their games simultaneously across the world rather than in a staggered fashion to reduce server strain. All they need to do is rent some server time from Amazon AWS or something for like a week.

Game companies are constantly saying things like "we sold 10 million copies so we will need to be able to have enough servers for 4 million concurrent players" totally ignoring the fact that at least 5 million of the players will all be logging on at the same damn time on launch day.

Another way to fix this issue is to stealth release it. Open up RoI 12 hours earlier and you give everyone the opportunity to log in as soon as they find out it's up, but that would naturally result in a staggering of login attempts rather than all of the attempts happening at once.

Lastly, MMOs of all stripes should have public test realms. HOLY SHIT WHY DOESN'T DESTINY HAVE THESE? Find and fix the problems before the game launches. There aren't enough testers in the state of washington to properly test an MMO-type game let alone enough at Bungie.

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Servers Unavailable - Cody Miller, 2016-09-20, 07:08
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  - Servers Unavailable - Cody Miller, 2016-09-20, 07:29
    - Servers Unavailable - unoudid, 2016-09-20, 07:34
    - Servers Unavailable - Morpheus, 2016-09-20, 07:45
- Itapirs they're having some trouble - someotherguy, 2016-09-20, 07:30
  - Destiny: Rise of Tapir - Cody Miller, 2016-09-20, 07:34
- At least you can try the theme, - TheeChaos, 2016-09-20, 07:40
  - At least you can try the theme, - Korny, 2016-09-20, 10:56
- There's a queue - naturl selexion, 2016-09-20, 07:47
  - There's a queue - narcogen, 2016-09-20, 07:48
    - There's a queue - BlackstarBSP, 2016-09-20, 07:51
      - There's a queue - unoudid, 2016-09-20, 07:51
    - There's a queue - Morpheus, 2016-09-20, 07:55
  - Got booted, now I'm at 140,089 :-( - naturl selexion, 2016-09-20, 07:53
    - 144,762. I'm Soloing The Raid! - Morpheus, 2016-09-20, 07:57
  - MY PEOPLE - someotherguy, 2016-09-20, 07:56
    - Ha, even the queue is broken - someotherguy, 2016-09-20, 08:00
      - Ha, even the queue is broken - unoudid, 2016-09-20, 08:08
  - There's a queue - ProbablyLast, 2016-09-20, 07:58
  - Booted again! NOW at 212,627 - naturl selexion, 2016-09-20, 08:04
    - Same here. 234,150 - narcogen, 2016-09-20, 08:07
      - Gotcha beat - naturl selexion, 2016-09-20, 08:13
  - Something to watch while waiting... - naturl selexion, 2016-09-20, 08:06
  - 270,000th in line ATM - CyberKN, 2016-09-20, 08:16
    - 331,518 I think I'm in the lead... - naturl selexion, 2016-09-20, 08:26
      - Joke's on you, I can't even queue anymore - CyberKN, 2016-09-20, 08:30
- This is another reason not to pre-order - Kahzgul, 2016-09-20, 08:01
  - Go back to bed, America - someotherguy, 2016-09-20, 08:09
  - This is another reason not to pre-order - Kermit, 2016-09-20, 08:12
    - This is another reason not to pre-order - narcogen, 2016-09-20, 08:45
    - This is another reason not to pre-order - Cody Miller, 2016-09-20, 08:47
      - This is another reason not to pre-order - kidtsunami, 2016-09-20, 09:58
        
        This is another reason not to pre-order - Cody Miller, 2016-09-20, 10:06
        
        This is another reason not to pre-order - kidtsunami, 2016-09-21, 11:25
        
        This is another reason not to pre-order - cheapLEY, 2016-09-20, 16:49
        
        This game would not exist if 'OFFLINE' was an option - kidtsunami, 2016-09-21, 11:25
      - This is another reason not to pre-order - Kermit, 2016-09-21, 13:40
        
        This is another reason not to pre-order - Korny, 2016-09-21, 14:00
        
        This is another reason not to pre-order - Kermit, 2016-09-21, 14:50
  - This is another reason not to pre-order - Cody Miller, 2016-09-20, 08:44
    - This is another reason not to pre-order - Ragashingo, 2016-09-20, 08:48
      - This is another reason not to pre-order - Cody Miller, 2016-09-20, 08:51
        
        This is another reason not to pre-order - Ragashingo, 2016-09-20, 08:58
        
        The screen literally says "at capacity" - CyberKN, 2016-09-20, 09:05
        
        I tend to believe it is artificial because of what Raga said - ZackDark, 2016-09-20, 12:04
        
        I tend to believe it is artificial because of what Raga said - Ragashingo, 2016-09-20, 12:12
        
        The screen literally says "at capacity" - Ragashingo, 2016-09-20, 12:08
        
        The screen literally says "at capacity" - Revenant1988, 2016-09-20, 12:59
    - This is another reason not to pre-order - Kahzgul, 2016-09-20, 16:57
  - This is another reason not to pre-order - Vortech, 2016-09-20, 15:09
    - +1 - breitzen, 2016-09-20, 15:37
      - Logic undermines my argument. Can we stop using it? - Kahzgul, 2016-09-20, 16:51
        
        Haha. Sure ;) - breitzen, 2016-09-20, 18:37
- Has anyone actually gotten in? - unoudid, 2016-09-20, 08:10
  - Funk literally got directly in. - ProbablyLast, 2016-09-20, 08:16
    - Do we have one queue or two? - Ragashingo, 2016-09-20, 08:21
      - Its a race to 1 mil - unoudid, 2016-09-20, 08:21
    - Funk literally got directly in. - unoudid, 2016-09-20, 08:21
      - By lying about it. He's in line with all of us, I'm sure. - Ragashingo, 2016-09-20, 08:23
        
        He's the only one on my friend's list playing the game. - ProbablyLast, 2016-09-20, 08:27
        
        All right asshole. - Funkmon, 2016-09-20, 08:32
        
        Hacks!!!! - unoudid, 2016-09-20, 08:32
        
        I wish my queue was that pretty. - ProbablyLast, 2016-09-20, 08:33
        
        This is why I don't make bets to eat stuff if I'm wrong. ;) - Ragashingo, 2016-09-20, 08:35
        
        What I did: loaded the demo version. - Funkmon, 2016-09-20, 08:50
- Destiny is featured game on Twitch - ZackDark, 2016-09-20, 08:23
- Year 3 MoT - unoudid, 2016-09-20, 08:30
  - Heh. My shirt is still in a queue too it seems :p - Ragashingo, 2016-09-20, 08:33
    - Got mine late last week. - dogcow, 2016-09-20, 13:19
      - When did you order? - Ragashingo, 2016-09-20, 13:32
        
        August 5th, customized. - dogcow, 2016-09-20, 13:35
  - Year 3 MoT - Kermit, 2016-09-21, 13:44
    - No shirt for you! - Ragashingo, 2016-09-21, 13:58
- Servers Unavailable - Cody Miller, 2016-09-20, 08:33
  - Kicked out of queue - Cody Miller, 2016-09-20, 08:56
  - Servers Unavailable - Korny, 2016-09-20, 10:59
- No Bungie.net access - Cody Miller, 2016-09-20, 08:49
- I got in! Selected my Warlock, then promptly got booted. - naturl selexion, 2016-09-20, 09:02
  - Finally in for real this time. - naturl selexion, 2016-09-20, 09:10
- Servers Unavailable - Kuga, 2016-09-20, 11:43
- Early Adopters. lol, suckers - Schedonnardus, 2016-09-20, 12:34
  - Yep! :p - Ragashingo, 2016-09-20, 12:38
  - Tapir in Portuguese is also slang for dumb af :D - ZackDark, 2016-09-20, 13:36
- Servers Unavailable - Morpheus, 2016-09-20, 15:12

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