Monday, February 06, 2006

The mission - should you be able to log on and do anything...

Talk about an ACTUAL impossible mission.

Mission Impossible 3’s HUNT started at 8:00pm EST.  It’s now 9:35, and it’s STILL not up and running.

The site – hunt.missionimpossible.com is not up – and Chat is wonky at best.

Did the admin’s not do a stress test on the game before launch?  There were only 120 people in the chat room, and I can’t possibly believe that 120 people crashed a server – considering over 30,000 people signed up for the game.

I find this comparable to the stress test I did for Star Wars Galaxies during their closed beta – The admin’s  would tell us in the chat room to all try to log in at once and see how long it took the servers to crash – just so they could figure out the bugs BEFORE the game went live. The only problem is – they are supposed to be live NOW.  This should have been taken care of at least a month or 2 ago – either in house or as a closed beta.

But when you (as a company) promise to have a site up and running – especially when there are actual prizes on the line – I find it inexcusable to have this many problems on day one of a game.  1 Hour and 45 minutes into the game, and no one has even see what the screen looks like yet (as far as I know).

I do hope that the admin’s figure out what’s wrong and then fix it, because I like stuff like this, and it would be a shame to see an opportunity like this to go to down the tubes.

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