Server discussion

[Grapes]

Something I haven't seen a lot of discussion about is the servers. I played PS1 for a few months, and in that time I remember there being only 3 servers. Now, I am wondering. Since PS2 has been blowing up lately; just how many servers will they have?

In general it's important for MMOs to not have too many servers, so that the community doesn't stretch too thin, but in PS2's case I think this is VITAL. This game simply will not work if there are too many servers, and will defeat the entire purpose. I really hope they have a few, but very big servers that can handle maybe 10,000 players or more.

Thoughts?

[Otleaz]

Something I haven't seen a lot of discussion about is the servers.

I laughed out loud at this part.

[SniperSteve]

Well, if they have 2k players per map and only 3 maps, you are looking at 6k player capacities. That means you would need to do some analysis as to what percentage of people are likely to be playing at the same time. I would say 50% of the people at most will play at any given time, so you are probably looking in the 12,000 range for the start, and then trickling in more players to the server as some accounts go inactive, probably up to like 20,000 per server.

[Grapes]

I laughed out loud at this part.

Hehe, as you can see, I'm still a "private" so haven't been around too long :D But when I created the topic, none of the suggested ones were about this specifically either. Sorry then :(

[TheInferno]

Eh, it happens.

As far as we know there will be USA + Europe servers, and multiple in each. I don't remember if there were others, so if someone point those out I'd appreciate it.

While spreading everyone too thin is a problem, considering how well they did at E3 they should be sure to have enough servers that everyone can actually play.

[Gogita]

We don't know how many servers there will be.

It all depends on the estimation of players PS2 will have by SOE that determines how many servers there are.

[SKYeXile]

Well, if they have 2k players per map and only 3 maps, you are looking at 6k player capacities. That means you would need to do some analysis as to what percentage of people are likely to be playing at the same time. I would say 50% of the people at most will play at any given time, so you are probably looking in the 12,000 range for the start, and then trickling in more players to the server as some accounts go inactive, probably up to like 20,000 per server.

these numbers are pretty close, 25-30k is the typical active player for a server with an online capacity of 6k, you can look at various MMO census' to confirm those numbers, at release obviously activity is higher than this and you would need more servers per player count.

id estimate at least 30 servers for release for America alone.

[Goku]

There has been several threads on this topic recently. Please search before making topics.

[basti]

I guess Goku forgot to close. ;)

But yea the whole pointless debate about servers was done several times already.

Result: There will be enough servers. /topic