What we can learn from the Helldivers 2 and Palworld launches | The DeanBeat

When everybody shows up at once to play a game like Palworld and Helldivers 2, it’s like a thunderous stampede for the company trying to keep the games up in the face of unexpected popularity.

When this happens for a game, it’s a lot worse than just a concert ticket launch for a band like Bruce Springsteen, where the tickets for a show are gone in seconds. That’s because the game has to be supported by an army of servers, not just when players are downloading it all at once, but also when they’re trying to play for hours at a time.

It’s a complicated problem, and the launch of the…