They had no problems taking everyone’s money. Maybe companies should limit the number of sales when deploying a product tied to services they operate and need to scale.
The peak concurrent users for the game thus far has been less than 1/10th of that (EDIT: slightly more than 1/10th of that). They were well within the bounds of what they simulated. They just screwed up.
Yeah from what I hear, they kept the shitty self-downloader of the first one that is obscenely slow and counts as “playtime” because the game is open while downloading.
This is on Microsoft, they can make as many excuses as they want, but they fucked it up.
It’s ok tho they’re making server complexes out of wood now!
/s
Where are you getting that number?
Didn’t account for the initial interest peak.
No, that’s what I’m saying. That peak is well under what they claimed they simulated.
Peak concurrent was marred by the game not being playable. It’s not really a good indicator here.
It is, because everyone trying to download assets from the game servers were doing so from the executable that Steam tracks as running.
It’s not, because downloading assets was not working, and with it not working eventually the user will shut it down thus having an effect on peak concurrent. It’s not even that complex. If people can play your game they will stay on it increasing the count, if people cannot play your game they will not, thus decreasing the count.
Exactly. The peak number of people trying to download it simultaneously was about 24k. They didn’t all stick around because it wasn’t working, even though that’s about 1/10th of what the devs expected and prepared for the demand to be. They didn’t get anywhere close to 200k people all hitting that server at once.
The devs of MS are fairly incompetent - look at all the first party games they’ve released, including ones from purchased studios.
The devs of MS are fairly incompetent
Or corporate executives push unrealistic expectations onto them
With Microsoft it can sometimes be really hard to tell if it was the devs, management, or both tbh.
I have a friend who plays, and they suggested that maybe putting it right onto gamepass – allowing Johnbro McFuck to download it, get lost in a cloud, crash into the ocean and never play again – during the launch window might not have been a great idea.
Why does a flight simulator of all things need to be a live service game?
Because it uses an extremely detailed 3d map of literally the entire planet, which can’t (yet) be stored on a modern gaming pc offline.
I don’t see why it can’t download each map individually. Like say you only fly in los angeles, it downloads only los angeles. Maybe it will still be a lot of data and you got a point.
I’ve been told it caches that data for areas you have been. But that doesn’t make it offline friendly, obviously.
Also what you’re suggesting is more dev work to make it not a live service with the associated benefits for the publisher, so they’re not gonna do that. :(
Yeah I just hate games that need constant internet connection to work
We need that connection to your brain in order to $urvive.
Do we know how big the file is?
It was over 2 petabytes in 2020 so at least that big.
Sounds like a fake humblebrag.
Woah woah woah buddy did you even take a second to think about the profits? Selfish.
I thought about the profits and now I totally get it. Why are so many people trying to hurt the innocent money???
No play, only buy! dog frisbee meme
A new Flight Sim is out already? God dammit, I barely had time to play FS2020… Less than 10 hours.
Does it really add that much more than the terrain we had 20 years ago?
With mods you can get FSX looking pretty good
If it’s the version I’m thinking of, that’s circa 2007, yeah? I remember the fully 3D interior panels being a little crunchy looking but using it mostly to practice instrument stuff with the traditional 2D panel overlays at ERAU. For which it was perfectly adequate.
Flight simulator needed a better people simulator.
Almost every major release ever f’s up the server demand. Whether it be downloading the content or players looking to join games.
They know the bitching will happen, buy everyone’s already handed over the cash, so too bad. They budget enough servers to just keep the complaints from lasting too long. Then everyone forgets and finds some other facet of the game to call “unplayable”.
