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Seriously guys, I doubt many people have even the faintest idea of the level of complexity involved in running a hosted service like Battle.net entails.

You can build in a very high level of HA and resiliency by throwing massive amounts of money and hardware at the solution, but at the end of the day, memory, bandwidth and raw cpu cycles are a finite value.

I can't imagine the sheer size of the data center Blizzard had to build for this product (If anyone can point out pics or specs on the WoW cluster I would love to see it), but think about this before too many of you p!ss and moan too much:

They would need to have massive clustering and load-balancing at multiple locations involving several carriers, compression and optimization, PCI-compliant security mechanisms, extremely fast top-of-rack / end-of-row switching on 10GbE or better, very significant electrical loads, high-capacity cooling and a boatload of physical space.

It's not like Blizzard is running Battle.net on a pair of pizza-box core i7 servers, when issues occur in an environment this large and complex, it takes time to resolve.

I personally dislike the online requirement for single-player campaigns, but in terms of protecting their development investment from piracy threats, I'll deal with it.

If everyone could just step back from the screen, have a sandwich or a smoke or a Red Bull or whatever turns your crank, I'm sure they'll sort it out in due time.

Spalovac_mrtvol píše:No jo kdyby lidi nepirátili tak by dnes singl nevyžadoval online připojení

Ale já blizzard chápu v tomhle ohledu... je jasné že dva, tři dny po zakoupení bude obrovský nával na servery které nebudou stíhat, jenže pokud by vyhodili xx milionů na nákup dodatečného hardwaru aby zvládl startovní nával tak by to byly vyhozené peníze, jelikož tak za týden nával ustane a přísun hráčů bude více vyrovnaný a kompletně v možnostech dosavadních serverů..
tak proč investovat hromadu prostředků jen kvůli pár dnům..

Butch píše:Hlavne maji vydelek cca 3 miliardy korun mesicne jen na poplatcich za wowko(kdyz si vezmu ze mesic hrani stoji ted v prumeru 300Kc a hraje to pres 10mega lidi jeste porad), takze se pripravit na napor opravdu mohli lepe....

Spalovac_mrtvol píše:Ha, konečně to dorazilo, sem měl radost tak sem nechal pošťákoj pade dýžko, ale teď mi ta krabice nejde rozbalit protože se mi moc klepou ruce