Quote Originally Posted by zanthor View Post
Give me a break, they make mistakes, and seriously, very few considering the scope.


  • The programmers are responsible for some 5.5 million lines of code.
  • QA group has tackled 180,000 bugs since the first game's launch
  • 4600 people are required to keep the game running
  • 20,000 computer systems
    • 13,250 server blades
    • 75,000 CPU cores
    • 112.5 terabytes of blade RAM
    • 1.3 petabytes of storage

  • 360,000 text strings and some two million words
  • They have created more than 1.5 million assets
  • 900,000 web files

Source

So maybe you should whine a little less?
Ask any IT person - any real IT person, and they'll tell you: It don't matter if you F up one server, or a thousand servers....F'ing up is F'ing up.

But seriously, 20k/1.3PB is really not that much.