Engineering Everquest

Posted by Zonk on Monday July 11, 2005 @06:42PM from the iron-behind-the-giant dept.

The IEEE Spectrum site has an article up discussing the engineering required to keep Norrath running. From the article: "The Death Star is a huge, warm, windowless room containing the rows and rows of servers that run Sony's online games. The whooshing of a massive air-conditioning system is so loud that conversation is almost impossible. A large steel cage surrounds more than 500 servers stacked 32 high in towering racks--and this is just one battalion, albeit the largest, in Sony's 1500-machine army of servers."

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Re:Not just Everquest by Anonymous Coward · 2005-07-12 01:27 · Score: -1, Troll

I was just thinking the same thing.

I think it boils down to poor design. You have to remember that most games like this are created by children that have very little programming experience (eg. college students and fresh graduates). Therefore the design and implementation will be considerably worse than what an experienced programmer might pump out.