Coincidence? I think not!

XBL-Heretic wrote:

jjnag1971 wrote:

XBL-Heretic wrote:
Now, I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but I don't think the us federal government partial shutdown starting today is a coincidence. I think the house and senate coordinated for this shutdown to start at 12:01 am ET this morning so everyone could be home to get the TSTO Halloween update today!

Think about it. They know much of the federal workforce wouldn't be getting a lot of work done over the next few weeks because of the update. Government networks would have been HAMMERED today, completely saturated due to government employees downloading the update.

Of course, this is a partial shutdown, with some federal employees still working. I suspect the early glitches with the federal ACA insurance exchange websites are those employees, who are still working, saturating the network constantly checking for the update!

Maybe that's why EA is waiting to release the update? EA planned for a certain amount of network capacity over the next 24 hours assuming more is needed in the evening hours after most people get home from work. With so many federal employees at home today, EA needs more network capacity during the day.

So it looks like the us federal government partial shutdown is screwing up a lot of things, including the start of our Halloween event!

Edit: autocorrect correction

Too bad every Federal employee will be working today. Out of the 4.1 million federal employees only about 800,000 will be off work.

Well now, you're no fun! Ya gotta go with the it's-not-a-conspiracy-theory theory! We can't let little things like "facts" get in the way! :mrgreen:

Edit:grammar