I doubt I've even heard of M2 before, but... man, that just sucks. At least, for the gamers. A massive clusterfuck of nearly epic proportions on the gaming company's side of things.
Can you imagine what kind of internet riot would be had if this happened to a MMO with a larger audience? Like oh, say, World of Warcraft?
No Sword of a Thousand Truths would save the developers from being Leeroy Jenkin'd alive by the masses of angry video game nerds the world over.
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Don't forget... test deployment of said backup to make sure a) you know how to do a recovery b) the backup actually works c) determine how long to do a recovery for future reference.
I've seen too many "backups" that are either corrupt, the wrong files were backed up, or no one knew exactly how to do a recovery. I'm sure a few people her at Icrontic know what I'm talking about.
This would not happen on larger games simply because the games are already spanned across multiple servers for both access and play. This was just poor planning on the game developer's part. Seriously, what was the thought process behind not running backups?
Almost sounds like a really bad video game ponzi scheme. Depending on the amount of money they had made by this point, I am curious to think how much profit they keep by not having to pay for server upkeep or even employment if the company just shut down the entire thing.
Whatever profit they made (if any) they would have continued to make that profit if they kept the game up, so now they will not be making any more. So I seriously doubt they'd do something like this on purpose for a "bad video game ponzi scheme." That'd be like saying, "Think of all the money Blizzard could keep if they shut down WOW and stopped having to pay for employees or server upkeep." Any profitable business would want to stay in business to continue making profit.
Not to mention that a ponzi scheme refers to a very specific type of investment scheme where you take peoples money for something that doesn't actually exist. This game did exist and people played it. An actual video game ponzi scheme would be to take money for pre-orders of a game that you never actually released (or even started to develop for that matter).
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Can you imagine what kind of internet riot would be had if this happened to a MMO with a larger audience? Like oh, say, World of Warcraft?
No Sword of a Thousand Truths would save the developers from being Leeroy Jenkin'd alive by the masses of angry video game nerds the world over.
I've seen too many "backups" that are either corrupt, the wrong files were backed up, or no one knew exactly how to do a recovery. I'm sure a few people her at Icrontic know what I'm talking about.