trent_reznor posted:MADMARX posted:Damn! Trent is brilliant in almost everything but one: choosing his commercial partners.
What would you suggest?
Um, I dunno, maybe something simple like having a server that has enough processing power and bandwidth to handle a large influx of users that was obviously going to be expected. It's not like you haven't experienced this before (Ghosts ordering was *exactly* the same shambles).
You could have separated out the downloads and ordering to different servers. So people who want the freebie download get one server, the people ordering the basic stuff another server and the physical stuff that costs a *lot* of money get another server.
Or you could have also separated out the servers for different regions (which you probably did in this case) but obviously whoever you partnered with in the UK/Europe is f**king hopeless!
Just sayin…
From someone who wants to give you my money but can't :-(