[MUD-Dev2] [OFF-TOPIC] A rant against Vanguard reviews and rants

[Adam Martin]

On 16/03/07, Amanda Walker <amanda at alfar.com> wrote:
> On Mar 16, 2007, at 6:56 AM, Adam Martin wrote:
> > The way I've done it before, and seen others do it, it works out a
> > lot cheaper.
>
> There are certainly cheaper ways to do it.  I was just taking a stab
> at "how to roll out a game that could handle around 10K users and
> keep running if a server failed".  Having seen what MMO fans do at
> the slightest hint of downtime, ... ;-)
>

... "not much" ? At least, not much compared to what they're doing
anyway - if the downtime is short, there's some bitching from the
usual suspects, but most just shrug and accept it. If it's repeated
and random, and enough to send people crawling up the walls, you get a
lot of hassle - but no different from when you fail to shut down an
exploit and it goes rampant, or let an employee get away with giving
away hugely valuable in-game items to his guild mates, etc.

And ... how different is it, really, from the emergency maintenance
downtimes, from the players' perspective? If you want to play at a
given time, and can't ...

Adam