Found an intresting slide of how many servers WoW uses, and some other technical information
http://www.wow.com/gallery/adgc09-the-u ... t/2296036/
Thought I would post as it shows how much it actually requires to run a world wide mmo.
What it takes to keep a mmo running...
What it takes to keep a mmo running...
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Re: What it takes to keep a mmo running...
Holy cow...thats alot.
You know its funny, as I heard that EVE online has only 1 server running that entire game...
You know its funny, as I heard that EVE online has only 1 server running that entire game...
Re: What it takes to keep a mmo running...
Might be a big server, the ones for WoW, if you calculate it, it averages about 5CPU's and 8GB RAM per server, not too much. And EVE got about 100k players, while wow got about 12 000 000, last time I heard, thats 120times more players...SpiritWebb wrote:Holy cow...thats alot.
You know its funny, as I heard that EVE online has only 1 server running that entire game...
But ye, it all comes down to optimization too!
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Re: What it takes to keep a mmo running...
If you don't feel like looking through the pictures, just read this..I think its the same facts, just in an article form.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/b ... -operation
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/b ... -operation
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Re: What it takes to keep a mmo running...
Looking over the figures of how much it costs to run an MMO, it almost makes you wonder why any company ever tried making a F2P game. It also makes me wonder how they are so popular among publishers. I know they are heavily optimized to require as little resources as possible, but still. It seems like there is a boat load of risk involved, but none of them ever seem to close down, particularly compared to P2P games.
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