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A battle in this WW2 MMO went on for over 2 months and killed 9 million players, so devs stepped in to end it early, only for "one last hurrah" to win it anyway (www.gamesradar.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Why would the devs want to shut it down? I don't get it.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Well if it's anything like EVE online these "wars" are rather resource intensive on the underlying infrastructure lol

[–] Macawesome75@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks ago

As a person who plays from time to time, it was more that the war was in a massive stalemate. It was on the secondary server, where less players are on than is required to push the front lines.

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

Does this game support thousands of players on a single server? EVE deals with that via "time dilation" which slows processes to a crawl so the servers can handle the load.

[–] ace_of_based@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

From the article:

The war on the Charlie server resulted in a stalemate where neither side was getting closer to winning, both had maxed out their technology, and all players were stuck in an end-game loop of manufacturing, delivering, and fighting with little to show for it.

"The main reason is to ensure that new players that have joined Charlie in the last month get the chance to experience a war as it's meant to be played, progressing through early, mid, and late phases of the tech tree,"

-statement by the developer.

Turns out simply releasing the statement was enough to end the war as the upcoming change got players to commit to a big war push and win the game before the change went thru.

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks for the context. I did read the article after I posted my comment. My order of operations is backwards and needs to be fixed lol

[–] ace_of_based@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Eh we all do it sometimes ha. Tbf it was your question that got me curious enough to look instead of just cruisin on so thanks i learned too