• dan1101@lemm.ee
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    30 days ago

    They probably didn’t know how many players their servers could support. This was one way to find out.

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      30 days ago

      Any company worth any money does stress tests of their servers to simulate different scenarios with different loads.

      Either they were overconfident, or simply didn’t think QA testing was necessary or worth the cost.