• hyperhopper@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Amusement parks can’t just spin up extra servers to handle load at peak times. Video games can. Also there is not a complex economy and ranking system that pits guests against each other at an amusement park.

    The comparison is not even remotely reasonable.

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      1 year ago

      Your points doesn’t make his points invalid. And the other way arround.

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      1 year ago

      They also need bandwidth infrastructure. Like theres reasons ff14 stopped sales of its new expansion instead of just “spinning up extra servers”. Theyre not installing a direct line from your house to their server, data from around the world is converging on data centers through utility data lines.