Grand Theft Auto V
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Utnayan
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Nope you won't be docked a point because that review was made by a guy that turned into a woman and thought it was misogynistic even though she was a man but....
Wait...
Adebisi
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Confirmed Seanfucker?
Is Sean's pussy oh so sweet? mmmmmmmmm
What is your satisfaction level as a percentage?
DickTrickle
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Making a few posts when the opportunity presents itself is hardly a fan club. When you're not saying retarded stuff, you don't get negative posts directed at you. It's pretty simple.
On a side note, I was actually able to get in and play half a race before I got kicked. Progress.
Adebisi
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Eomer
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So, I'm no network analyst whiz kid, but isn't Grand Theft Auto Online going to be basically be unprecedented in terms of the number of concurrent players? Is there another game that is even close (that's not just a matchmaking service like Starcraft or whatever)? I just don't think that there's any realistic possibility that the game would work perfect right off the bat, because no one's attempted something on this scale before. I doubt it's even a matter of money invested on infrastructure, they're probably throwing money at it. And with services like Amazon and other massive data farms, it's not like they even need to build physical infrastructure.BBC Article_sl said:
The only way they could realistically release something like this without huge problems is stagger the release and slowly scale it up. But I think we all know that the Sean's of this world would lose their fucking shit if they attempted that. No one flies a new jumbo jet around the world on the first go, or commissions a large ship in a day. Mega-projects like that are slowly tested out and problems are resolved as they ramp things up to full performance. Unfortunately that kind of thing simply can't be done with most online video games because of the optics of restricting access initially, and everyone loses their shit over it, when they should just damn well know better.
Honestly, has anyone released a massive online game without some initial problems, ever? Maybe it's not because the companies are greedy or awful or incompetent. Maybe it's because it's just not possible.
DickTrickle
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Interesting but hopefully not permanent glitch: My social club stats are all empty right now, as if I've never played the game...
As someone who does work on large software projects such as this, in essence the answer is yes. Shaking the gremlins out of infrastructure is incredibly difficult, and every new setup is almost always different, and what you did on one project at one place though good experience, will help but only pieces of it will be similar.
I go through it with every project, and every company, and I have had really brilliant people around me and to learn from, and of course sometimes, not so brilliant people, but usually that is not the underlying issue. Large scale projects of any sort, take lots of planning and architecting and testing, and usually we are not given the luxury of time.
In a way I am happy though because it is definitely job security. If it were easy and things like 'this is the year whatever' stuff were true, script kiddies would be taking muh jerb.
Edit to add: And yes, the number of people with experience with online concurrent users of this numbers is probably very low at various key points of the infrastructure - programming, netcode, DB, hardware and they all have to play together well.
iannis
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Has anyone on PS3 been able to play online today? All the livestreams I see are from Xbox users.