This is just poor planning and project management due to inexperience. I don't think he planned for minecraft to ever get this big and infrastructure is always the last thing people think of with these types of projects. It annoys me that they obviously weren't monitoring the state of their server(s) to see what kind of utilization it was reporting but it happens more than most people realize. I remember Blizzard having the same issues with WoW when it first came out and they were a far more established company. However, Mojang seems new to the whole server management game. If any of you have ever setup redundant servers and clustering with software that was never designed to work in that type of environment you'd know it can take time to get things setup. You can expect to see more outages as they refine the auth system and way the servers handle the load balancing.
It seems most people are irritated because they can't play a game they paid for. Even if its beta you have to look at us as investors. If we received updates on the project status regularly and in one place instead of forums, twitter, tumblr, minecraft.net, etc it would help to smooth things over. There should be one point of information which is updated regularly. That is why companies pay PR and communications personnel. I think that would help smooth over the majority of complaints people have.
Is that an actual bandwidth graph from the server? Rather impressive if it is. I bet the folks hosting that have been in a bit of a panic with that much traffic coming in. I know if I saw that coming into my data center from some kids hosting a game I'd probably crap myself. I'd love to know what kind of operational costs that incurs. Which sadly is another thing people forget... they paid 10 bucks once when hosting costs a fortune over time. Either way it seems things have gotten sorted out for now. Keep up the good work.
the graph is from notches twitter, im assuming for minecraft.net
First of all I'm laughing because Tobias was responsible for changing the server not Notch, go yell at him for a change.
I'm wondering why you mentioned North America, you think you're that special? You know there is a rest of the world. Plus the fact that it has only been 3 days not a week. If you're gonna whine, complain and be a no-lifer do it RIGHT!
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I'm just glad to hear that minecraft is really truly down right now. It beats trying to log in for two hours and getting nothing.
Maybe I just don't know where to look to get this information properly, because I read it first here. Oh well.
But back on topic, and so I'm contributing something rather than simply bumping this for the benefit of others who don't know what I didn't know; have a look at how the big companies handle this stuff. It ain't usually much better, and it's frequently worse. As long as we aren't mass banned for refusing to upgrade to a version with no mods or charged unreasonable amounts, I'm happy. More monsters wouldn't hurt though...
I'm just glad to hear that minecraft is really truly down right now. It beats trying to log in for two hours and getting nothing.
Maybe I just don't know where to look to get this information properly, because I read it first here. Oh well.
But back on topic, and so I'm contributing something rather than simply bumping this for the benefit of others who don't know what I didn't know; have a look at how the big companies handle this stuff. It ain't usually much better, and it's frequently worse. As long as we aren't mass banned for refusing to upgrade to a version with no mods or charged unreasonable amounts, I'm happy. More monsters wouldn't hurt though...
Notch's blog is the best place for this information. Either that or his Twitter feed. http://notch.tumblr.com/
No words to describe.........the hate.....i feel........for the op...........
Funny how all the people who are legitimately upset with how Notch is managing everything spend the time to provide reasonable arguments yet all the fanboys post one liners like this. If you have no counterarguments then don't even bother posting.
No words to describe.........the hate.....i feel........for the op...........
Funny how all the people who are legitimately upset with how Notch is managing everything spend the time to provide reasonable arguments yet all the fanboys post one liners like this. If you have no counterarguments then don't even bother posting.
People don't have to have logical reasons to hate others. Hence, racists.
**** EVERYONE WHO SAYS "LOL U PAID FOR IT DEAL WITH IT"
****ING COMPANIES RUN THEIR **** LIKE A ****ING COMPANY RUNS ****.
THAT MEANS **** LIKE A DOWNED SERVER DOESN'T ****ING LAST LONG.
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desperate-n00b-with-no-life is desperate. Why didn't you post that before man? We obviously need more people like you here! That's definitely going to fix EVERYTHING.
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desperate-n00b-with-no-life is desperate. Why didn't you post that before man? We obviously need more people like you here! That's definitely going to fix EVERYTHING.
Nerf guns are serious business, and if he's ready to get into the world surrounding them he has my best wishes.
the graph is from notches twitter, im assuming for minecraft.net
I'm wondering why you mentioned North America, you think you're that special? You know there is a rest of the world. Plus the fact that it has only been 3 days not a week. If you're gonna whine, complain and be a no-lifer do it RIGHT!
http://www.minerwars.com/?aid=640
Maybe I just don't know where to look to get this information properly, because I read it first here. Oh well.
But back on topic, and so I'm contributing something rather than simply bumping this for the benefit of others who don't know what I didn't know; have a look at how the big companies handle this stuff. It ain't usually much better, and it's frequently worse. As long as we aren't mass banned for refusing to upgrade to a version with no mods or charged unreasonable amounts, I'm happy. More monsters wouldn't hurt though...
Notch's blog is the best place for this information. Either that or his Twitter feed. http://notch.tumblr.com/
Funny how all the people who are legitimately upset with how Notch is managing everything spend the time to provide reasonable arguments yet all the fanboys post one liners like this. If you have no counterarguments then don't even bother posting.
People don't have to have logical reasons to hate others. Hence, racists.
****ING COMPANIES RUN THEIR **** LIKE A ****ING COMPANY RUNS ****.
THAT MEANS **** LIKE A DOWNED SERVER DOESN'T ****ING LAST LONG.
Mod edit: this here is flaming. please don't swear at people
******
Mod edit: warned and temp-banned.
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