How Do I…
How many servers, how much will bandwidth cost, where should I put my stuff. Oh, geeze all this stuff sounds soo expensive and I just want to launch my game, and I barely have enough Capitol (read:Money) to complete development. is’nt there a simple way to figure out all the stuff that I need, and are’nt there thousands of companies willing to give this stuff away?
NO
Bite the bullet and tuff it out soldier. The game industry is War, and this battleground is littered with broken bodies and bank accounts of the caviler and ill prepared. MMOs are the biggest guns in the Armory, and it takes a-forethought to deploy them, otherwise it’s more likely to kill you than be a killer in the market.
MMOs are some of the most technologically complex creations in the history of Human kind. there are more moving parts in a single MMORPG Shard than in the shuttle, 747, and a deep sea oil drilling rig combined. Don’t forget that each shard runs on dozens or hundreds of servers, each running operating systems, each connected to storage, databases, network servers, firewalls, billing systems, administrative and support systems not to mention all the gorp that is in that great cloud we call the Internet before it even get’s to whatever you are running the game on. PCs and modern consoles are the peak of computer technology these days.
But like any good Gunnery Seargent I’ve been looking out for you. (P.S. hats off to real soldiers! I only play one on the PC)
Here are some suggestions on how to get your arms around how much of what you need to get it done.
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