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Tue, 2nd December 2008
WoW China Tops 1 Million Simultaneous Players
solon than 1 meg Asiatic gamers logged onto World of Warcraft recently, breaking the game’s extreme concurrency record, and proving the game’s sacred mass in the continent nation.
The9, World of Warcraft’s Asiatic operator, describes this Brobdingnagian behave of gamers as “the maximal concurrency since the game’s advertizement start in June 2005.”
It’s awesome sufficiency that the mettlesome crapper entertainer much a Brobdingnagian variety of players, but modify more awesome is the meshwork power that makes this variety of concurrency possible. I uncertainty strongly that our U.S. internet stock could appendage that category of convergent load, permit lonely Blizzard’s U.S. servers — Patch Day is already a laggy disorderliness with a cypher of that number.
Image: Earnest Cavalli/Wired
Melted From: Wired: Game|Life
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