[cod] Need to know

[Jay Vasallo]

From: "stalvi" <stalvi at tek.iarc.uaf.edu>
To: <cod at icculus.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 1:32 PM

>.  I don't  think there is any way that Activision can support 4000-8000 
>servers.  Figure 20 people per server, 8000 servers, that's only 160,000 
>users.  Not enough to make a stink over and that is using a very high 
>estimate.  The numbers would be more like about 2000 servers with  about 20 
>users each.  40,000 is a small number to support the  infrastructure of the 
>charge-based system.
>

20 man per server? If COD2 is going to release a realm like wow, wouldn't it 
also mean that the server player amount would be astronomical? The systems 
that ran the servers wouldn't be dual 3.2 or dual amd's either I would 
imagine. I wish we had the final details on the release.

J