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Helldivers 2 finally adds a much-requested AFK kick timer, stopping undemocratic glory hounds from twiddling their thumbs in perpetuity (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It really sucks that Helldivers 2 is having an issue over too many connections. I know the devs are saying this is complicated, and it is, but they're not the only company that is serving a huge amount of users. This game has several questionable design decisions and this is just one of them. I hope it can be fixed because I was really looking forward to playing

[–] VoterFrog@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Designing for a huge amount of users costs money and expertise, so more money, and not even their most optimistic predictions included this many players. If they hadn't made it big, that money would've been wasted. Which games are going to go viral is just insanely hard to predict.

[–] platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I wonder what's the scalability issue. I've never seen a system that can't be fixed by throwing more horizontally scalable resources at it.

[–] huginn@feddit.it -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Given that when the servers are overloaded you don't get rewards: They probably have a centralized database or some other centralization issue.

You can add to a cluster all you want but if you're using a SQL monolith you'll get locks.

If you only have 100k concurrent users you can probably get away with it.

At 450k they're running into gridlock