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Star Citizen Just Had its Biggest Crowdfunding Day Ever With $3.5 Million in 24 Hours (techraptor.net)
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[–] orrk@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

to be fair, its issue is that they literally have a whole flood of people trying the game, like 70%+ is people just trying the game then

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's not like these free play periods are a surprise to them. They are in complete control of how hard their servers get pounded and when.

[–] orrk@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

sure, but AWS only has so many servers ready to spin up at any one time