Games and Launch Days
Launch nights with pre counted demand, always online requirements, and the load spikes a calendar publishes months in advance.
2 articles in this arc
The Video Game Plague That Epidemiologists Still Study
In 2005, a raid boss debuff escaped its dungeon inside World of Warcraft and became a full epidemic, complete with asymptomatic carriers, panicked quarantines, and deliberate superspreaders. Real disease researchers took notes.
Seven Years of Loading Screens, Fixed by One Fan
A player with no source access profiled GTA Online's load in 2021 and traced most of it to one item list read inefficiently. Rockstar confirmed it, patched the PC version and paid a bounty.
