player 09sc10zmc13sa report wow gold: World of Warcraft manpower revealed One... two. These are numbers I can understand. I'm kind of clueless about numbers, and when a publishers deplores or exults their sales figures I usually have to go scratching about to find some comparative figures before I know how to react.
wow power leveling Nobody needs to tell me, though, that World of Warcraft is big business. But how do you measure the success of a MMORPG, when 'active user" and 'subscriber" figures are so suspect, and the genre is so thoroughly dominated by just one title? wow power leveling Well, you can always look at some of the really big numbers involved in developing and maintaining the game, and say "gee". I'll provide the numbers; you start the exclamations.
wow gold These figures come out of GDC Austin, where Frank pearce and J Allen Brack seem to have had a rather jolly time sharing facts and figures. For example, have you ever wondered just how many people it takes to keep WoW up and running? In short - over 4600.
wow power leveling The longer version gives a better idea of how that figure breaks down, and rules out my immediate suspicion that this number included the janitor and they guy who comes to refill the vending machines. Starting at the top,wow gold we have thirty individuals acting as Department Heads. Just one department, programming, is made up of 32 extremely busy coders; between them, they've produced over 5.5 million lines of code.
wow gold The art department don't get much time to play office chair races, either; the 52 talented artists behind designing Tauren's nostril hair have churned out 1.5 million assets, including character design, environments, dungeons, concept art, and props.wow power leveling And that's not counting the team that put the cinematics together; the machinima group has a staff of 123. Two full time writers work to produce new storylines and spin off novels, as well as acting as keepers of the lore.
wow power leveling Here's a fact that kind of blew me away: with both current expansions, there are now over 7,600 quests available to WoWers. Next time you find a glitch or error, spare a thought for the 245 long-suffering employees of the QA department before you fire off an angry rant.wow gold Since they've already tackled over 180,000 bugs they deserve just a little respect! Have you noticed any typos in game? World of Warcraft contains over 360,000 lines of text, all of which are ruthlessly combed by the localisation team as they translate epic happenings into ten languages.
aion gold Even keeping in mind the legion of administrators that go with any big project - accountants, PR, human resources and such - we're still missing a big chunk of people. Who are they? Well, they're the ones who actually keep the game running. I don't know exactly how many people work in the Online Services department, but they're responsible for 13,250 server blades, 75,000 CPU cores and 112.5 terabytes of blade RAM.wow power leveling In all, 20,000 computer systems and 1.3 petabytes of information are utilised so we can raid in relative comfort.
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