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As Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Steam Reviews Collapse to ‘Overwhelmingly Negative,’ Dev Admits It ‘Completely Underestimated’ Excitement for the Game (www.ign.com)

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[–] Artyom@lemm.ee 83 points 2 days ago (2 children)

World's 2nd most popular cloud infrastructure company is unable to deploy their own software on their own cloud infrastructure.

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The world’s 1st most popular cloud infrastructure company was also unable to deploy their own software on their own cloud infrastructure. I remember just being in total disbelief when New World, the Amazon-developed MMORPG struggled for WEEKS (Months?) with server capacity issues. Like… you guys own ALL the servers, the main selling point of which are their ability to dynamically scale to demand.

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I totally get the irony of how Amazon's own MMO struggled with server capacity issues, but that probably has way more to do with how the game was actually written/implemented, and less to do with Amazon's scalability features.

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

That’s my point. If any MMO is going to be tightly designed to utilize the abilities of a platform like AWS, you’d think it’d be the one owned by the company that owns AWS. At the very least because it’s an opportunity to flex the capabilities of AWS as an MMO back end. AGS is not AWS, but you’d assume there would be a team from AWS assigned to work with them specifically, as well as the fact that AGS doesn’t have to consider cost as a limiting factor when utilizing AWS as a back end, like any other MMO developer would. It’s a huge leg up they had over every other MMORPG developer, and still somehow managed to screw it up.

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah that would be the logical thing to do, lol. In my time experiencing and working in the software development world though, rarely are high-level decisions like that made based on how logical they are. Usually they're made based on how much short-term cash flow they may generate.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago

Usually they are made based on how much they will improve the career chances of the person making them.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 10 points 2 days ago

I work there and I'm not surprised.