The supercomputers behind World of Warcraft

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11-18-2008 @ 3:09PM

Eric said...

Google is on 24/7, or at least it is to its users :P

11-18-2008 @ 3:23PM

Thoralf said...

Apparently you have not the slightest clue about the technical backround of a mmo compared to a web service like Google.
Otherwise you would know that the requirements are not comparable.

11-18-2008 @ 3:58PM

Aigarius said...

Google can drop connections and redirect yo to another server at will (and does that all the time), it can give you a result from data that is 1 hour old or even a day old, it will not matter much, it can take a second or two to get the result page to you, you can only do a couple hundred Google searches per hour.

WoW needs precision, you would not be happy if you would suddenly be on another realm, if your gear or XP would suddenly revert to what it was an hour ago, if your latency would be 2 seconds (2000 ms) and still the WoW client sends hundreds of requests each minute.

So, Google vs. WoW? Very different ball game.

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