Tag: servers
WoW Classic is getting official ‘hardcore’ mode servers
How the NFL Scheduled 272 Football Games Using 4,000 Virtual AWS Servers
“In just three months,” AWS explains, “National Football League (NFL) schedule makers methodically build an exciting 18 week 272-game schedule spanning 576 possible game windows.” Up until 10 years ago, AWS notes in an accompanying infographic, the NFL used a white-boarding process to manually craft its schedule. Not to diminish the NFL’s and AWS’s 2023 scheduling achievement, but the 2013 documentary The Schedule Makers told the remarkable tale of the husband-and-wife duo of Henry and Holly Stephenson, who for almost a quarter of a century in the pre-Cloud era managed the scheduling for 30 Major League Baseball (MLB) teams who each played 162 regular season games a year. According to the May 1985 Atari Compendium (pg. 38), the Stephensons were using a self-written program running on a 64K IMS-8000 to help schedule games for the MLB (2,106 games over a 6-month season), NBA, and NASL/MISL (defunct soccer leagues). So perhaps the NFL’s claim that “There’s no way the NFL could deliver the quality of schedule that we put out every year for our fans and television partners without the contributions of our friends at AWS” should be taken with a grain of salt.
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Diablo 4 will invite players to test its servers one last time before launch
Diablo 4 has already had a closed and open beta, but aspiring hack-and-slashers will get one last chance to test the action-RPG sequel before it launches in June. From May 12th to May 14th, Blizzard are hosting a “Server Slam”, in which one and all are invited to test “the durability of our servers.”
[Deep breath] Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 Warlords of New York Expansion Year 5 Season 1 Broken Wings Descent Mode will be on public test servers tomorrow
Diablo 4 open beta coming in May to purposely try to break the servers
Blizzard has announced another open beta for Diablo 4 , the purpose of which is to test the server infrastructure.
The open beta, dubbed “Server Slam” by Blizzard, takes place May 12-14 and starts at 12pm PT, 3pm ET, 8pm BEST, and 9pm CEST. During this time, everyone on PC, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, and PlayStation 4 can join – you can even play couch co-op for consoles. Cross-play and cross-progression for all platforms will be enabled.
It’s all to test the servers to ensure the game’s release goes as smoothly as possible.
Blizzard asks Diablo 4 fans to ‘come slam our servers’ in May 😏
Ubisoft Might Extend XDefiant Closed Beta If Servers Stabilize
Following backlash, Ark remaster is now more expensive, old servers still being shutdown
After some fan backlash over how the Ark: Survival Evolved remaster is being handled, Studio Wildcard has responded by… making it more expensive.
Last week, Studio Wildcard made a couple of big announcements related to the Ark series. The first one, that Ark 2 has been delayed into 2024, is completely unsurprising, as we have seen literally nothing of the game so far. The second one was a little more surprising though, as the studio announced that Ark: Survival Evolved is getting a big remaster called Ark: Survival Ascended, as well as the fact that Survival Evolved’s servers are getting shut down, meaning players would have to buy the remaster. Fans didn’t like this much, so obviously Studio Wildcard’s solution was to make it more expensive.
To further explain, in the announcement Wildcard revealed that if you want to play the game on Xbox or PC, you had to buy a bundle which also contains the upcoming second game for $49.99 (on PS5 you could buy just Survival Ascended for $39.99). On top of that players would have to buy upcoming expansion packs. Now, in a new post from Wildcard, apparently none of this is the case.
Ark 2 is delayed, so they’re turning off Survival Evolved’s official servers and charging $50 for a remaster
ARK 2 has been delayed until the end of 2024. The dinosaur survival sequel currently best known for having Vin Diesel in it, for some reason, was originally aiming for a 2023 release, but developers Studio Wildcard say they need more time.
To compensate, they’re going to instead release Ark: Survival Ascended in August, a remaster of the original Ark: Survival Evolved that moves it over to Unreal Engine 5. That’s the good news. The bad news is you can only buy it in a $50 bundle with the sequel (which won’t be finished for at least a year), and that the original Survival Evolved servers will be switched off when Ascended launches.