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Old 12-31-2019, 03:44 PM
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Originally Posted by vossiewulf [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
What the marketing weasels put out usually bears little resemblance to what the engineers say. Probably has improved since I was in the games industry, but back then we all had problems with clueless marketing weasels who had zero experience or background in games.

Weasel: How many people per server?
Engineer: It's designed for roughly 500 people each.
Weasel: Hmmm that sounds low, what can they REALLY support? At maximum?
Engineer: I'm I dunno, maybe 1500, but the experience would be terr...
Weasel: RIGHT! 1500 it is.
I guess you're also forgetting when they showed population numbers in the login screen.