Mashiki Amiketo wrote on May 21, 2012, 19:18:

ASeven wrote on May 21, 2012, 19:07:

But those names don't have a strong appeal as Diablo has. Not even SimCity. Just look at the sales of Civ V and the sales of D3 in its first days and you can see Diablo is in a class of its own when it comes to brand recognizement.

As for the good ol' days, yeah I remember but you are forgetting a critical difference from then and now: Publishers have a lot more money now than they could dream back then. As such publishers today do have the financial means to create a server structure that could withstand D3's flood of gamers in the first day. That they didn't either smells of cutting costs or pure negligence and I'm not sure which one is worse when it comes to security.

Might want to go look at those numbers and numbers for other games, while you're still looking up the others.

I see you're still thinking that just because you throw money at network infrastructure you're going to get instant results. Even at throwing money at something you're going to have problems that you didn't forsee, oddly like the AT&T border routers crapping out. Haven't been paying attention to the net in general you wouldn't have seen that. "Server infrastructure" is a very small part in the grand scheme of things. That you don't understand it, means one of a few things.