Originally posted by Souldrainer
I call bullshit on this whole thing.  Digital editions selling out would be like running out o0f "copies" of a web site.  It is just impossible...

They stopped selling copies to try and have a smooth beta, i think they actually did it too late.

Beta is going well but the first hours were really bad.

Originally posted by Souldrainer
I call bullshit on this whole thing.  Digital editions selling out would be like running out o0f "copies" of a web site.  It is just impossible...

Yeah i can't figure out how one can run out of digital editions. It is a catch phrase just to make headlines i guess.

We are going to run into a serious GW2 shortage.

Buy now before it's too late. 

You can still get CEs!

They did the same with swtor

http://news.mmosite.com/content/2011-10-31/dont_be_too_worried_about_the_limited_supply_of_swtor_copies.shtml

Originally posted by Rivalen

Originally posted by Souldrainer
I call bullshit on this whole thing.  Digital editions selling out would be like running out o0f "copies" of a web site.  It is just impossible...

They stopped selling copies to try and have a smooth beta, i think they actually did it too late.

Beta is going well but the first hours were really bad.

And yet... sales are where they get money to buy servers.  Doesn't compute.

Originally posted by Souldrainer

Originally posted by Rivalen

Originally posted by Souldrainer
I call bullshit on this whole thing.  Digital editions selling out would be like running out o0f "copies" of a web site.  It is just impossible...

They stopped selling copies to try and have a smooth beta, i think they actually did it too late.

Beta is going well but the first hours were really bad.

And yet... sales are where they get money to buy servers.  Doesn't compute.

It kinda does, it's not about number of servers is about having them properly setup and in time.

They actually didn't even limiting access.

Originally posted by Rivalen

Originally posted by Souldrainer

Originally posted by Rivalen

Originally posted by Souldrainer
I call bullshit on this whole thing.  Digital editions selling out would be like running out o0f "copies" of a web site.  It is just impossible...

They stopped selling copies to try and have a smooth beta, i think they actually did it too late.

Beta is going well but the first hours were really bad.

And yet... sales are where they get money to buy servers.  Doesn't compute.

It kinda does, it's not about number of servers is about having them properly setup and in time.

They actually didn't even limiting access.

 Nope, it still makes no sense.  Ever see a game shut down servers for maintenance?  Last I checked, they usually bring them back up on the same exact day.  That's how long it takes for these companies to get some new servers up and running, and last I checked, the game doesn't launch in the next day.  So no, it's complete bullshit.

Originally posted by stragen001

Limiting numbers to cover up lag issues?

 

Lag issues are more then evident, they aren't trying to cover it up. It is all about not investing too much money in new servers, months before the release. New servers cost money + monthly bill for running them. They have more then enough servers to gather the information they need from beta feedback.

Originally posted by Puremallace

Originally posted by orbitxo

wise company!=luv em already.

yeah not like SWTOR did this or anything. The number of keys were limited to ensure you would have a lag free experience, so we can hide the fact how laggy it will be on launch. Talk about admitting something.

 

Pays to know something about online games before you talk about them, but live and learn, right??

They put a cap on beta access til they smooth out more server stability and bugs so that they can later let more in once this is done.

Thats one of the reasons all online games do a beta in the first place and why they do limited closed betas. You have to work your way up to having 100k or more people on one server at a time and have few issues. Especially when they made the game from scratch and didn't just import it from Korea or somthing.

Krondin,

You have no idea.. no idea at all. It is not as simple as selling as many boxes as you can and watching half the people never get to play the entire weekend.

They had 48 servers up in total and every single one of them were pushed to the absolute limit in terms of people logging in and playing.

Originally posted by Zezda

Krondin,

 

You have no idea.. no idea at all. It is not as simple as selling as many boxes as you can and watching half the people never get to play the entire weekend.

 

They had 48 servers up in total and every single one of them were pushed to the absolute limit in terms of people logging in and playing.

This 100%.

^ oh necro... :(