Chapter 1682

"Even if I'm a bronze saint, it should be the end when I break into the golden twelve palaces!" on August 17, with the official sale of super sunshine Mario, the deputy secretary general with half white hair said to himself.

Unfortunately, the golden twelfth house is finished, and Hades is waiting.

And this time, it's a bigger bomb.

At 10 a.m. on August 17, "super sunshine Mario" was officially opened for sale. 500000 players who had been waiting for a long time chose to buy the game and then download it.

There is no problem buying games. After all, I bought such a huge bug before, so this part is optimized for programmers.

However, after clicking download, the browser's download progress bar has been stuck.

Three minutes later, the download progress of many players is still 0%. They don't even download 1KB of data.

What's more terrible is that when many players rush to open the purchase page of super sunshine Mario, the whole page cannot be opened.

Later, they wanted to refresh the steam game store, but found that the whole store directly 404.

8: 12. The website recovered in a short time, and then quickly 404.

In the next six hours, the website was restored 12 times, and then all 12 times were instantaneously down. The total recovery time of these 12 times was less than 1 minute and 20 seconds.

At the beginning, the players of super sunshine Mario could understand.

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

It is conceivable that, despite great difficulties, it is not easy to buy a point card. You want to play the latest super sunshine Mario without queuing for the first time.

But as a result, the neighbors who lined up next door to the store have started on the computer. Their download progress is still 0%, which is unbearable.

These grumpy old men immediately wanted to vent their grumpy emotions on the forum. As a result, the forum of the box game store was paralyzed, so these grumpy old men all rushed to the Microsoft official forum. For a moment, the whole official forum was a voice of scolding. Finally, even the Microsoft forum was directly blasted and 404.

So, what happened to the box game, so that all 404?

The reason is very simple, because the box game has never imagined that the 500000 downloads of super sunshine Mario will have a huge impact on the download server of the box game.

You know, any website that provides download services basically needs to build a large high-speed and high-channel download server for a large number of access players to download the contents of the server through the access service.

Of course, the box game does not have a download server. On the contrary, they have the largest access server in Microsoft's history. Even the server providing windows system download is not so huge. The price of this server alone is more than 60 million US dollars.

Microsoft thought this server was enough. After all, it was the world's largest game server, but it turned out that the server crashed completely in less than 10 seconds.

Box games underestimate the download traffic of super sunshine Mario.

First of all, super sunshine Mario is hard changed from the motherboard to the PC version, so the optimization is very poor. It has a capacity of 1.6 g, which is three times that of Warcraft 3. It's very terrible.

Secondly, they actually only set up a download server, allowing a full 500000 access traffic to access a server at the same time, and the result can be imagined.

It can't be said that Microsoft programmers are stupid and naive. They refer to the data of the steam game store and find that even if there are 3 million downloads a day, the download experience of the steam game store is very smooth. Although there are occasional network speed jams, it is very smooth on the whole, except for users who rely on telephone lines to surf the Internet, Other players can basically download it within 1 hour.

This gives the programmers of the box game store confidence that they can do what steam can do, not to mention that they have only 500000.

But they didn't know that the steam game store spent a full $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 west of the United States to build a data center in beimi area. All servers are connected together and intelligently shunted through the control system.

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

In addition, boss Jia personally stared at the server, and a full 100 programmers sat in the central control room on standby. At the same time, the super data center in your province of Huaxia was also started for the first time to divert downloaded data from Europe and the United States.

Boss Jia even holds an artifact named * * * * and once he finds that the official download channel is about to fail, he immediately uses this killer mace to keep the download stable even if he dies.

On the contrary, even if Microsoft has only one download server, it also allows users to directly use the web downloader provided by IE browser to download. If this download doesn't explode, there will be a ghost.

Of course, in fact, Microsoft can't be blamed too much. After all, Microsoft's experience in data products is too insufficient. They have never had such a magical experience that 500000 people download 1.6gb at the same time.

After all, even Ali in another world, in the first few double 11, although he had the experience of traffic explosion last year, he finally had to crash the system once a year.

On the contrary, boss Jia, who has experienced the opening of his own game company's two-dimensional game service three times, then the small server exploded, and then planned to worship the heaven, has a full understanding of the traffic, so the processing is perfect, so that Microsoft doesn't realize that there is such a fatal danger of too many downloads.

Now Microsoft has realized this, but everything is over.

Because Microsoft calculates to buy the server immediately. It can't get it in more than 7 days from the installation to debugging of the transportation road.

Even if they take it down, their company's network can't afford such a huge amount of downloads.

Then, most importantly, Microsoft's board of directors questioned whether to order IBM's servers at a high price of $3 billion.

"Let the box game store die! We've had enough of this money losing product!" said a board member so simply.

Indeed, from the establishment of the box game store to now, he has not brought a penny of profit to Microsoft, but let Microsoft spend nearly $20 billion.

Microsoft can't make decisions internally. Unfortunately, it can only be the website and the players who bought the game on the website.

These players are desperate to find that the box game store has been inaccessible since August 17. After a full delay of three days, the store resumed access, but the download function was directly prohibited.

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

This is really a kind shop.

Many players directly began to greet the ancestors of Microsoft, and more players chose to directly initiate a refund. The results showed that the refund needs to play for more than 1 hour to refund because the game is not fun.

Interestingly, players refund because they can't download and install.

We can imagine the expression on the faces of these players.

Microsoft probably realized the danger, so they came up with a genius plan: queue up to download!

Just like queuing up to log in to the game, you can queue up to download. Just click download and keep the queuing page closed. It is estimated that you can wait until you download in about three days.

I really don't know which little genius came up with the plan!