"Even if I am a Bronze Saint Seiya and are entering the Golden Twelve Palaces, this should be over!" On August 17, as "Super Sunshine Mario" officially started sales, the deputy secretary-general, who was half-white, said to himself in this way.

Unfortunately, the Golden Twelve Palaces have been fought, and Hades is waiting.

And this time, it was a bigger bomb.

At 10 a.m. on August 17, "Super Sunshine Mario" was officially launched for sale. 500,000 players who had been waiting long ago chose to buy the game and then download it.

There is no problem with buying the game. After all, I bought such a huge bug before, so this part has been optimized quite well for programmers.

However, after clicking on download, the browser's download progress bar remained stuck.

Three minutes later, many players' download progress was still 0%, and they didn't even download 1KB of data.

What's even more terrifying is that when many players who rushed over were planning to click on the purchase page of "Super Sunshine Mario", the entire page was in a state that they could not be opened.

Later they wanted to refresh the Steam Game Store, but found that the entire store was directly 404.

8:12, the website recovered for a short time, and then quickly 404.

In the next 6 hours, the website recovered 12 times, and then all 12 times went down instantly. The time of these 12 recovery times was added together, less than 1 minute and 20 seconds.

At the beginning, players of "Super Sunshine Mario" could understand it.

But after six hours, almost everyone turned into a irritable brother.

It is conceivable that with great difficulties, it is not easy to buy a point card. If you want to play the latest "Super Sunshine Mario" without having to queue up at the first time.

But the neighbors who were queuing up next door to the store were already on the computer, and their download progress was still 0%. This was simply something that my father could not tolerate.

These irritable guys immediately wanted to go to the forum to vent their irritability, but the forum of the box game store was paralyzed, so these irritable guys rushed to the official Microsoft forum. For a moment, the entire official forum was full of cursing voices, and in the end, even the forum of Microsoft was directly blown up, and it was 404.

So, what happened to the box game, so much so that the whole game is 404?

The reason is very simple, because Box Games has never imagined how huge the 500,000 downloads of "Super Sunshine Mario" will have on the Box Games download server.

You should know that any website that provides download services basically needs to set up a large high-speed high-channel download server to provide a large number of players who access the service to download the content in the server.

Of course, Box Games did not have a download server. On the contrary, they built the largest access server in Microsoft's history, and even the server that provides downloads on Windows systems was not that huge. The price of this server alone exceeded 60 million US dollars.

Microsoft thought this server was enough, after all, it was the world's largest and largest server, but it turned out that this server had only lasted for less than 10 seconds and completely crashed.

Box Games underestimates the download traffic of "Super Sunshine Mario".

First of all, "Super Sunshine Mario" has been hard-replaced from the motherboard to the PC version, so the optimization is very poor, with a capacity of 1.6 G, which is three times that of "Warcraft 3", which is very scary.

Secondly, they only set up one download server, allowing a full 500,000 access traffic and accessing one server at the same time, and the result can be imagined.

This is beyond my opinion that Microsoft programmers are very stupid and naive. They refer to the data from the Steam Game Store and found that even if there is 3 million downloads a day, the download experience of the Steam Game Store is very smooth. Although the Internet speed is occasionally stuttered, it is very smooth overall. Except for users who rely on phone lines to access the Internet, the rest of the players can basically download it within an hour.

This gave the programmers of the box game store confidence that they could do what Steam could do, not to mention that they only had 500,000.

But they didn't know that the Steam Game Store spent $600 million to order 40 professional download servers from Daqian Electronics, and then spent another $30 million to buy a land in a valley in the western United States, where they built a data center in the North Mi region, and all the servers were connected together to intelligently divert through the control system.

By the way, Daqian has also developed a steam downloader specially used to download software and will be automatically installed for users.

In addition, Boss Jia was staring at the server himself, and a total of 100 programmers were sitting in the central control room and standing by. At the same time, the super data center located in Guizhou, Huaxia Province was also launched for the first time to divert download data from Europe and the United States.

Boss Jia even held a magic weapon named ****. Once he found that the official download channel was almost unable to hold on, he immediately used this killer move and kept the download stable even if he died.

On the contrary, it would be fine if Microsoft had only one download server, but it actually allowed users to directly use the web page downloader provided by IE browser to download. If this download does not explode, there will be a ghost.

Of course, in fact, we can't blame Microsoft too much. After all, Microsoft's experience in data products is too insufficient. They have never had a magical experience of downloading 1.6GB at the same time.

After all, even Alibaba, in another world, during the first few Double 11 sessions, although they had experience of traffic explosions last year, their system crashed once a year in the end.

On the contrary, Boss Jia, who has experienced three times of opening a two-dimensional game server in his own game company, then exploded a small server, and then planned to sacrifice the sky, has a full understanding of traffic, so the processing is perfect, so Microsoft has not realized that too many downloaders are still such a fatal danger.

Now that Microsoft has realized this, it's all over.

Because Microsoft calculates that it is time to purchase the server immediately, from the transportation channel installation to the debugging, it is impossible to get it without more than 7 days.

Even if they take it down, their company's network cannot withstand such huge downloads.

Then the most important thing is that Microsoft's board of directors has huge doubts about whether it will cost $3 billion to order IBM's servers.

"Just let the box game store die! We've had enough of this money-lossing product!" said a member of the board so simply.

Indeed, since the establishment of the Box Game Store, not only did it not bring Microsoft a penny of profit, but instead caused Microsoft to spend nearly $20 billion.

Microsoft itself cannot make decisions internally. The only one who is unlucky is the website and the players who have purchased games on the website.

These players found in despair that the box game store was still inaccessible since August 17, and it took a full 3 days to resume access, but the download function was directly banned.

In the words of the box store, the download function is temporarily stopped for the benefit of the players.

This is really a kind shop.

Many players started to greet Microsoft's ancestors directly, and more players chose to initiate refunds directly. The result prompts that the refund will take more than one hour to play for the refund, so that the game is not fun.

Interestingly, players refunded the money because they could not download and install it.

You can imagine what the expressions on these players’ faces are.

Microsoft probably realized that this was very dangerous, so they came up with a genius plan: queue up to download!

Just like queuing to log in to the game, you can also queue up to download it. Just click Download and then leave the queue page closed when you disappear. Then you will probably wait for about three days to wait until you download it.
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