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Despite running load tests that simulated 200,000 users, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 devs admit that they 'completely underestimated' how many players would actually want to play their game (www.pcgamer.com)
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They had no problems taking everyone’s money. Maybe companies should limit the number of sales when deploying a product tied to services they operate and need to scale.

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[–] darthsid@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The devs of MS are fairly incompetent - look at all the first party games they’ve released, including ones from purchased studios.

[–] KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 8 points 17 hours ago

The devs of MS are fairly incompetent

Or corporate executives push unrealistic expectations onto them

[–] SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world 8 points 19 hours ago

With Microsoft it can sometimes be really hard to tell if it was the devs, management, or both tbh.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 17 hours ago

Al the Age of Empires games, apart from AoE1 DE, are excellent.