"Even if I am a Bronze Saint, this should be the end of the 12 Zodiac Temples!" On August 17, as the sales of "Super Sunshine Mario" officially began, the deputy secretary-general, whose hair was half white, muttered to himself.
Unfortunately, the 12 Zodiac Temples are over, and Hades is still waiting for him.
This time, it is a bigger bomb.
On August 17th, at 10 am, "Super Sunny Mario" officially went on sale. 500,000 players who have been waiting for a long time chose to buy the game and download it.
There is no problem with buying the game. After all, there is a huge bug in the game, and the programmers have optimized this part of the game well.
But after clicking on the download button, the browser's download progress bar is still stuck.
Three minutes later, many players' download progress is still at 0%. They can't even download 1 kilobyte of data.
What's worse is when many players rushed to the store and wanted to click on the purchase page of "Super Sunny Mario", the entire page is in a state of not being opened.
When they want to refresh the steam game store, they found the entire store is 404.
At 8: 12 am, the website is restored for a short time, and it is 404 again.
In the next six hours, the website is restored 12 times, and all 12 times, the website is down. The total time taken to restore the website is less than 1 minute and 20 seconds.
In the beginning, the players of "Super Sunny Mario" can still understand.
But after six hours, almost everyone has turned into irritable old men.
You can imagine how difficult it is for these players to buy the game card. They want to be the first to play the latest version of "Super Sunny Mario" without queuing.
But their neighbors, who are queuing at the store next door, are already playing the game on their computers, but their download progress is still at 0%.
These irritable old men wanted to vent their anger on the forum, but the gaming store's forum is also down. So, these irritable old men rushed to Microsoft's official forum. In an instant, the entire forum is filled with angry voices. In the end, Microsoft's forum is flooded with comments, and it is 404.
Then, what happened to the gaming box that caused all the players to be 404?
The reason was very simple. It was because the box game had never imagined that 500,000 downloads of "Super Sunshine Mario" would have a huge impact on the download server of the box game.
It should be known that any website that provided download services basically had to set up a large high-speed and high-channel download server to allow a large number of players to download the content in the server through the access service.
Of course, the box games do not lack a download server. On the contrary, they had set up the biggest server in Microsoft's history. Even the Windows download server is not as big as this. This server alone costs more than 60 million USD.
Microsoft thought this server is enough. After all, this is the world's biggest server. But this server only lasted for less than ten seconds before collapsing.
The box game had underestimated the download volume of "Super Sunshine Mario".
First of all, Super Sunshine Mario was changed from a console version to a PC version, so the optimizations weren't great. It had 1.6GB of storage, which was three times the storage of Warcraft 3. It was terrifying.
Secondly, they only set up a download server and let a total of 500,000 visitors visit the same server at the same time. The result was obvious.
Microsoft's programmers were not stupid or naive. They had looked at the steam game store's data and realized that even with 3 million downloads a day, the download experience was smooth. Although the internet speed lags occasionally, it was very smooth overall. Other than the users who rely on phone lines to access the internet, the rest of the players can download the game within an hour.
This gave the programmers in the box game store confidence. They can do what the steam game store can do, not to mention they only have 500,000.
But they did not know that the steam game store had spent 600 million USD to order 40 professional download servers from Daqian Electronics. Then they spent another 30 million USD to buy a valley in the western part of the United States. There, they built a data center in the Northern US region. All the servers are connected together and distributed intelligently through the control system.
Oh right, Daqian Electronics also developed a steam download server for downloading software. It will be installed automatically for the user.
Other than that, Boss Jia was personally monitoring the servers. A hundred programmers were sitting in the central control room waiting for orders. At the same time, the super data center in Hua Xia was also activated for the first time. It was used to distribute download data outside of Europe and the United States.
Boss Jia even had an artifact called * * * * *. Once the official download channel was about to collapse, he would immediately use this artifact to ensure the stability of the download.
On the other hand, Microsoft not only had a single download server, they even allowed users to download the game using the web page download server that came with Internet Explorer. It would be strange if the download did not explode.
Of course, Microsoft could not be blamed for this. After all, Microsoft did not have enough experience when it came to data products. They have never had the experience of 500,000 players downloading 1.6GB of data at the same time.
After all, even in the other world's Ali, although he had the experience of the previous year's explosion of traffic, the system would still crash once a year.
On the contrary, Boss Jia, who had experienced the launch of his company's 2D games three times, the explosion of the small server, and the sacrifice to the gods, had a good understanding of the traffic flow. That was why he handled it perfectly. Microsoft did not even realize that there was a fatal danger in having too many downloads.
Now, Microsoft has realized this, but it's all over.
Microsoft had to purchase the server immediately. It will take them more than seven days to install and debug the server.
Even if they can get the server, their company's network cannot handle such a large number of downloads.
Most importantly, Microsoft's board of directors is doubtful if they should spend 3 billion USD to purchase IBM's server.
"Let's just send the gaming store to hell! We have had enough of this money-losing company! "One of the board of directors said.
That's right. Since the gaming store was set up, it had not brought any profits to Microsoft. Instead, Microsoft had spent nearly 20 billion USD on it.
Microsoft's board of directors cannot make this decision, and the unlucky ones are the website and the gamers who bought the game from the website.
The gamers realized in despair that after the 17th of August, the game store had been inaccessible. It took three days for the store to be restored, but the download function had been disabled.
The gaming store said that they had stopped the download function for the sake of the gamers.
This is a kind-hearted store.
Many gamers started to curse Microsoft, and more gamers decided to refund the game. However, the gamers must play the game for more than one hour before they can refund the game because it is not fun.
Interestingly, the gamers refunded the game because they could not download and install the game.
One could only imagine the expressions on the gamers' faces.
Microsoft realized this is dangerous, and they came up with a genius plan. Queue up to download the game!
It's like queuing up to log in to the game. You can queue up to download the game. You just need to click on the download button and wait for three days before it's your turn to download the game.
I really don't know which little genius came up with this plan!
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