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Originally Posted by lightspeed
Whats going to happen, the servers come up at 6 am and you send emails out. Some people will be able to get on because they're on xmas break or work a later shift. Then come 4pm servers will start straining as people who had to work start coming on. By 8pm the servers will be down from all those people trying to get on because you guys couldn't plan it properly.
That's not what happened during our Testing Weekends, and we were at considerably higher numbers in the final weekends than we're projecting for Day One of Early Game Access. In fact we specifically tested for scenarios where hundreds of thousands of people hit the servers at exactly the same time, and saw smooth ramps to maximum population servers.
We've never had servers down from over-capacity, although yes, we have had queues - and yes, we're expecting queues during Early Game Access and launch, although we are going to be extremely vigilant to keep those queues to a reasonable size/wait-time.
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