04-22-2005, 07:45 PM
counterargument, both city of hero's, and ac had MUCH stabler launches. In coh, while a much smaller release compared to wow, only the first day had major lag issues.
you could argue comparative sizes of the launches in question, but blizzard had their experience from bnet, developers from SOE, and designers from SOE. the Developers of coh had none of that vast background knowledge to draw upon, and less cash resources, yet were able to do a good launch.
ffxi us release launch was also smooth, with no noticible perforamce differences. argument there could be that they had a year of JP release going for them but, it could be considered a MAJOR patch release. Blizzard has yet to a patch day without problems. Compare this to squaresofts supporting two different platforms (pc and ps2) at the same time and doing massive population changes as launches in US and Europe added people to exsisting worlds.
you could argue comparative sizes of the launches in question, but blizzard had their experience from bnet, developers from SOE, and designers from SOE. the Developers of coh had none of that vast background knowledge to draw upon, and less cash resources, yet were able to do a good launch.
ffxi us release launch was also smooth, with no noticible perforamce differences. argument there could be that they had a year of JP release going for them but, it could be considered a MAJOR patch release. Blizzard has yet to a patch day without problems. Compare this to squaresofts supporting two different platforms (pc and ps2) at the same time and doing massive population changes as launches in US and Europe added people to exsisting worlds.