WWI 2008 Over - Bye Bye Octoshape

[worlann]

Who here agrees that using something experimental as Octoshape was a bad idea? It got the job done in the end, but with so many errors it wasn't funny.

[ScytheNoire]

Should've just had downloadable torrents.

[Flux]

we're posting movies of all the presentations, so everyone can see them eventually. as for octoshape, it worked pretty well... after the big announcement and traffic died down. it was great on Sunday.

However, they clearly they lacked the bandwidth to handle the D3 anticipation though, and that's the memory most people will take away from the octo's performance.

[yukisho]

Octo is a great program if it is utilized properly. Blizzard just didn't anticipate the volume of traffic that would be received. Although they never have. To the WoW players, remember on Nov. 23rd when the game came out? The 17 servers that were offered to us crashed within the first hour. Blizzard may have expected the amount of traffic per the amount of active played account in D2, but not everyone who want D3 was playing D2 only. In time they will learn as we all do.