servers limited or outage

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Outage reported11/19/2024, 6:00:00 PM

 

 

Investigating11/19/2024, 9:42:04 PM

 

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5 minutes ago, Nuno Pinto said:

And while in the queue, my video card is spamming 1800fps. Nice job.

Nobody at Asobo heard of frame limiters yet most surely. History repeats.

Yeah, noticing that as well, 80% GPU. The spinning circle on the login queue page is buttery smooth. 🤪

OK so we have a bunch of socialist art majors, taking full price $200, that didn't have the business talent & brains to anticipate this launch day surge of use. Poor brainless slobs posing as celebrities, wannabee billionaires but on state funded minimum wage. 

3 minutes ago, ummagumma said:

OK so we have a bunch of socialist art majors, taking full price $200, that didn't have the business talent & brains to anticipate this launch day surge of use. Poor brainless slobs posing as celebrities, wannabee billionaires but on state funded minimum wage. 

too many snobs with the smell under the nose; than this happen; I hope the Misobo supremo is watching the disaster unfolding.

12 minutes ago, MikeyOnTheFlightDeck said:

3hours stuck at 97% loading. Turning off my pc to save some electricity. I’ll try again in a week. Sigh. 

I got in at the second attempt.  No idea why you'll wait a week though.

11 minutes ago, Gazzareth said:

If only they could have predicted the high load, and were a big enough company to be able to put the resources in place.

G

 

Is there a company big enough on earth to not have issues in the first couple of hours for such a huge software title?

Rebooted after getting stuck at 97%, and now in queue too.

I expected some troubles on launch day, but It's microsoft, not a small company, didn't they expect some traffic on servers?

Just now, MrBitstFlyer said:

Is there a company big enough on earth to not have issues in the first couple of hours for such a huge software title?

yes, microsoft

you don't have to "provision" servers as such, you just set the parameters for how much resource to assign as the demand increases - the azure platform spreads it across however much hardware it needs

this is a self-imposed limit we are seeing, but as a team they will have a budget for release they cannot exceed by just throwing more and more resource at it

6 minutes ago, MrBitstFlyer said:

I got in at the second attempt.  No idea why you'll wait a week though.

Just for the initial surge to die down and give devs a chance to update what they can

5 minutes ago, EGLD said:

yes, microsoft

you don't have to "provision" servers as such, you just set the parameters for how much resource to assign as the demand increases - the azure platform spreads it across however much hardware it needs

this is a self-imposed limit we are seeing, but as a team they will have a budget for release they cannot exceed by just throwing more and more resource at it

If they got a 'budget' for release; the question is; Is this a streaming game or not ?  This is not even download spikes; how the heck they can stream the game at peak time ? Sure the server demand will not be much different;  some thing do not look right here.

 

 

Edited November 19, 20241 yr by Marc22

14 minutes ago, Mike... said:

Yeah, noticing that as well, 80% GPU. The spinning circle on the login queue page is buttery smooth. 🤪

Hahah, 250w for a smooth stutter free high fps spinning circle hahaha.

Just now, EGLD said:

yes, microsoft

It appears you are incorrect.

1 minute ago, EGLD said:

this is a self-imposed limit we are seeing, but as a team they will have a budget for release they cannot exceed by just throwing more and more resource at it

This is the point many don't understand.   I caught a train in the UK this morning.  The station I was at didn't have any snow, but just 10 miles to the north there was up to 10cm.  A train from the north was announced as late due to severe weather, which had one woman state angrily 'what severe weather, they should see Russia'.  No understanding the UK doesn't have enough bad snow to warrant throwing money at snow clearance, when most of the equipment would be sitting idle most of the time.

Can a company as big as Microsoft  afford the server infrastructure required for those individual big launches?  I assume not and am willing to accept day one issues as quite normal.

11 minutes ago, MrBitstFlyer said:

s there a company big enough on earth to not have issues in the first couple of hours for such a huge software title?

"Huge" software title??? Not even close, it's a game download!

I can think of many downloads that put a far larger strain on servers than this game.

When Apple releases a new IOS they no longer have problems haven't in a very long time. I'm not going to debate the volume of one vs another but I would be a fool to believe this game is "huge" in the new world of software downloads and software as a service, and also video streaming!

2 minutes ago, MrBitstFlyer said:

It appears you are incorrect.

This is the point many don't understand.   I caught a train in the UK this morning.  The station I was at didn't have any snow, but just 10 miles to the north there was up to 10cm.  A train from the north was announced as late due to severe weather, which had one woman state angrily 'what severe weather, they should see Russia'.  No understanding the UK doesn't have enough bad snow to warrant throwing money at snow clearance, when most of the equipment would be sitting idle most of the time.

Can a company as big as Microsoft  afford the server infrastructure required for those individual big launches?  I assume not and am willing to accept day one issues as quite normal.

Microsoft must be loaded with money; sure they can afford some extra server capacity at launch days; after all they are in the gaming business; they got sort this mess out once and for all.

Would’ve been a lot smarter to stagger the release by region then to deal with this circus show.  As big as their resources and capacity of mega data servers and cloud computing, yet they still couldn’t get it right. Next time you have an estimate for launch day, … multiply by an additional 10. 
 

giving up and retiring for the night. Hope it’s sorted out by morning