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Sometimes I read these posts and I have to come to the conclusion that some people just don't have any sense. Of course the game is ready for release. You quite obviously have no clue whatsoever about IT rollout.
As someone who supervises an IT department that builds and manages server farms I would have to say that you are way offbase.
The game may have been ready for release, but the server infrastructure to support the playerbase may not have been ready (assuming thats what the problem has been). I know I would be in some serious trouble if I oversaw a project that had this much downtime when it was publically released.
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Stress testing in beta is so not even near what it is like when you go live that's it's not even funny. How exactly are they supposed to stress test 200,000 new players in a the first few days?
We design programs and scripts to "simulate" any number of clients performing any number of tasks and monitor the servers under different kinds of loads, and if there are problems they are fixed before we toss it out to the public.
I can see two reasons this may have been rushed to release:
1. World of Warcraft
2. Christmas
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Quit complaining and enjoy the game when you can. So far it has been wonderful. And lots of fun.
I'm complaining because the game is awesome and I can't play it! I really hope they get those servers back up before I get home from work... grrrrr.
^^ Hoping for a crash/maintainence free weekend ^^