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[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 88 points 3 days ago (2 children)

and it really has overwhelmed our infrastructure."

By underestimated excitement they meant player count straining their ridiculous approach of streaming massive amounts of data through the game instead of preinstalling.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'm calling it now: for Flight Simulator 2025, they're going to pull a Windows update "energy saver" and have it stream data peer-to-peer wherever possible.

[–] sevan@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago

I think they'll go full terminal mode on the next iteration. You'll download a 100MB launcher and then just do cloud gaming from there.

[–] freeman@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago

A Bittorrent based game you say?

[–] Wooki@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Its almost as if they plan for this experience. Theyve done it multiple times now, you can only assume its intentional.