Question: Are feeder towns killing the game?
how would it be different if they were not feeder towns? how would you enforce "no feeder towns" since many family members play on different devices You actually should be clamoring for feeder...
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I don't think the number of players is the issue. They certainly are bringing in enough money that if it were server loads they would buy more server power to be able to handle the load of players. After all that would be in their best interest to continue making money if the game was/is growing beyond their current server capacity. I believe the connectivity issues we are having is a broader thing. One such thing being DDoS attacks. For whatever reasons this year and possibly the past few years there are groups of people out there that for whatever reasons attack big gaming companies. Blizzard, arenanet, ncsoft, to name just a few of the companies repeatedly hit by such groups. I have no idea if all the outtage we have had are as a result of these or not but they certainly smell like it to me.
And with the size and complexity of the internet now adays as well who knows if anything of that factors into connection problems. I know all sorts of companies who like to blame everyone else for connection issues. I know netflix and my old ISP both like to place blame on the other for service problems with streaming. Loss of connection to the stream for example or sudden reduction in stream rate. I've also had other online game companies and ISPs place blame on the other for connection issues as well. The bottom line as a customer is, unless we are extremely knowledgeable on the technology involved, we don't know who to believe we just expect that all parties involved do everything they can to make something we pay for work. That way we get to enjoy it when we want to enjoy it.
And with the size and complexity of the internet now adays as well who knows if anything of that factors into connection problems. I know all sorts of companies who like to blame everyone else for connection issues. I know netflix and my old ISP both like to place blame on the other for service problems with streaming. Loss of connection to the stream for example or sudden reduction in stream rate. I've also had other online game companies and ISPs place blame on the other for connection issues as well. The bottom line as a customer is, unless we are extremely knowledgeable on the technology involved, we don't know who to believe we just expect that all parties involved do everything they can to make something we pay for work. That way we get to enjoy it when we want to enjoy it.
