Inculpatus cedo.9234 Posted February 22, 2020 Share Posted February 22, 2020 ArenaNet used NCSoft servers previously. Again, I'm wondering if it's cheaper to use one's own servers (parent company's) or someone else's (Amazon).The only reason the Devs gave about changing servers was that the Virginia (Amazon) server was more centrally located to the NA population.The EU server didn't change geographically (Frankfort to Frankfort). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amnessa.6154 Posted February 22, 2020 Share Posted February 22, 2020 Dude, servers are problematic. What is your intention of silencing people who can't have fun because of it? You guys even play the game ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solvar.7953 Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 The main reason to use a cloud provider like Amazon is you can get scaling for large/popular events. If Anet/NCsoft have to have enough servers around for the busiest time (say peak hours, or during a festival), a lot of the time, they have a bunch of servers sitting around doing nothing, costing money (even if you power them off, you have still invested cost in buying them, datacenter space, etc).Using a cloud provider, you typically pay for what you use, and you can add more servers as needed. So if suddenly GW2 needs 5 times more servers for some reason, those get spun up on amazon automatically, and when the demand goes away, those servers are spun down (really, rented to someone else). But Anet only pays for services they are using - they let Amazon deal with balancing server demands, etc.For something with highly varying load, this probably makes a lot of sense. I suspect player count goes up dramatically when a new LS releases, and then goes down as people finish it up. And even during the course of a normal day, there are more players online at different times of day/night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justas.2436 Posted February 23, 2020 Author Share Posted February 23, 2020 @amnessa.6154 said:Dude, servers are problematic. What is your intention of silencing people who can't have fun because of it? You guys even play the game ?agreed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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