How The Game Is Played

More evidence the game industry needs us...

Seems this is a day of outages in the massively multiplayer space.

I just tried to log onto MatrixOnline and found ALL their servers down except one that was closed and for admins only. (Ironically enough that one is named "Regression". I'd guess its a test server.)

Havent found an explaination yet but I DID find two OTHER massively multiplayer games that are down:

Eve Online:

http://www.stratics.com/content/news/arc8-2004.php

And Dransik:

http://www.stratics.com/content/news/arc4-2003.shtml

Interestingly enough, the EVE folks are blaming their outage partly on non-redudnant design foisted on them by deployment and management software from IBM....

This industry is literally dying for a standard solution to game server reliability, scalability and data persistance.

And thats what my baby-- the Sun Game Server -- is all about.

EDIT: additional, cheap-shot department: "IBM-The On Demand Operating Environment." Apparently that's not on user-demand. MatrixOnline servers have been up and down tonight like yoyos and the users are hopping mad.

There's a blog in here somewhere about the dangers of letting marketing over-promise for our technology... or doing it ourselves, but I want to think a bit before I write it.

Posted at 11:08PM Apr 04, 2005 by gameguy in General  |  Comments[0]