Will SOE be ready for 500,000 players?

[Sndman]

I noticed that the trailer teaser posted yesterday on YouTube has 400,000+ views in just a little over one day. I wonder if SOE really is ready to have that many people download the game and start playing on release day? I seem to remember that when EQ was released they crashed the internet or something because so many people were trying to log on at the same time.

Just a thought, nothing like being ready for success when it happens.

[Fizzgig]

That's why they have tech tests, and beta. They'll gradually let more and more people into beta to test the servers can handle the load.

[SleepyZombie]

I dunno if they will have 400,000+ people on the day of launch.... If it is even 400,000 I will be surprised greatly.

6000 person servers
66+ servers

[helioN]

500,000? Nope, won't even happen. This game ain't WoW or LoL, you need a much better PC to run it. I'd be happy if 100,000 players played this game on a regular basis.

[Bags]

What is the point of this thread?

[Yutty]

in one of the vids higby was talking about having 2000 people on a continent. Since they only have 1 continent finished right now wonder if the beta server is only allowing 2000 ppl. If they get the EU server up is that another 2000 in tech test?

[Sndman]

To have a diehard troll like you come in and make a comment on my first post to PSU forums?

[SleepyZombie]

Yeah I realistically see maybe 100,000 people at start... The game is not as high profile as you may think. More than 80% of my friends have never even heard about planetside let alone planetside 2

"I have a lot of gamer friends"

[Bags]

Originally Posted by Sndman

To have a diehard troll like you come in and make a comment on my first post to PSU forums?

Make better threads then. There's no point of this thread.

There's no discussion value.

[Zar]

Originally Posted by Sndman

I noticed that the trailer teaser posted yesterday on YouTube has 400,000+ views in just a little over one day. I wonder if SOE really is ready to have that many people download the game and start playing on release day? I seem to remember that when EQ was released they crashed the internet or something because so many people were trying to log on at the same time.

Just a thought, nothing like being ready for success when it happens.

400,000 over many time zone's one thing about planetside 1 is that we almost had shift's if not shift's xD. like id crash out around 11 pm pst and the euro and aussie player's would play till morning people with day's off or jobless collage student's would take over as they crashed out xD

[n2q0_matrix]

They are gonna run this on the Amazon Cloud and just spin up VMs as needed.

[Shadowrath]

Originally Posted by SleepyZombie

I dunno if they will have 400,000+ people on the day of launch.... If it is even 400,000 I will be surprised greatly.

6000 person servers
66+ servers

I as well will be surprised insanely. But we can all hope this game becomes that great.

[Sndman]

Originally Posted by Bags

Make better threads then. There's no point of this thread.

There's no discussion value.

I am glad you are the discussion value know it all....maybe we should discuss why you think your opinion matters.

P.S. Why have you never made CR5 or BR 30? Maybe you should work toward that goal instead of spending your time trolling these forums.

[cellinaire]

Well, SOE has operated in this industry for more than a decade.
(I mean, 15+ years)

What makes you think they won't be ready? Number of servers? About their manpower?

[Sndman]

Just curious is all....I wonder how many max players one server can hold, maybe 10K? I have no idea....but if that is close to the number then that means ten servers for 100K players. If it is free a lot of people will check it out. I have no idea on the tech stuff, but if they have a peak of 500k then that means 50 servers. I think that EQ had about 30 servers at it's peak.