As Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Steam Reviews Collapse to ‘Overwhelmingly Negative,’ Dev Admits It ‘Completely Underestimated’ Excitement for the Game - eviltoast
As Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Steam Reviews Collapse to ‘Overwhelmingly Negative,’ Dev Admits It ‘Completely Underestimated’ Excitement for the Game - IGN
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As Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Steam reviews collapse to ‘Overwhelmingly Negative,’ its developer has admitted it "completely underestimated" the excitement for the game.
  • dan1101@lemm.eeEnglish
    72·
    2 days ago

    They probably didn’t know how many players their servers could support. This was one way to find out.

    • PerogiBoi@lemmy.caEnglish
      82·
      2 days ago

      Any company worth any money does stress tests of their servers to simulate different scenarios with different loads.

      Either they were overconfident, or simply didn’t think QA testing was necessary or worth the cost.