Americas Army 3 to be released on June 17

**Husar** · 06-18-2009, 12:17

Almost every version has had auth server problems when it was new.
One reason could be that they do not go for more servers for those few days when a new version is out because most of the time that capacity is not needed, so when everybody jumps at it at once, the servers can't handle it. Just wait a bit I'd say.

**TB666** · 06-18-2009, 15:59

As with anyone using steam and online services, you can see how many are getting the game..
They should have prepared for this. It's been over a day since it got released and you still can't play the game because the servers are shot to hell.
Again, if people had to pay for this it would have been the end of it.
Just figured the US army could actually plan ahead and make sure they had some good servers to handle the new players but apperently not.

**Hooahguy** · 06-18-2009, 16:29

well, apparently the AA3 team didnt expect so many people trying to download it.

and after all, its the army.
theres a murphys law that reads, "you can always count on the brass to mess things up."

**Hooahguy** · 06-18-2009, 18:25

well, i finally got to play the first version. as of now, i think its so dumb how i worked so hard to qualify for training, and now i have to start over. and its laggy like hell, and freezes from time to time.
fail.

**Evil_Maniac From Mars** · 06-18-2009, 20:01

I hate the weapons familiarization training. I qualified with a straight 100%, and it recognizes this and shows it on the final screen, but fails me anyway.

**Husar** · 06-19-2009, 12:21

Originally Posted by Hooahguy

well, apparently the AA3 team didnt expect so many people trying to download it.

and after all, its the army.
theres a murphys law that reads, "you can always count on the brass to mess things up."

I don't think it's necessarily that, think there are 10 million people playing the game every day for the first month, after that, 9 million people lose interest and play less frequently or not at all anymore. So for the next 3 years they are left with 1-2 million people a day but they run enough servers to support 10 million, they now have at least 4/5 servers that are completely superfluous and to avoid that they prepare for 1-3 million people or something from the start and accept that the experience of users in the beginning will be less than splendid but over time it will become better. Most businesses do it that way, it's why some downloads of popular stuff on steam or elsewhere are really slow, providers aren't going to spend millions just to satisfy their customers for a single download/event. Unless perhaps the customers are willing to pay a lot for the servers every month.

Haven't gotten to try it yet, seems like my old account isn't working, gonna make a new one over the weekend or next week, though next week we'll get the ETW patch...

**TB666** · 06-19-2009, 14:34

Well the servers seems to be overall working however there are still major issues with saving stats.
Some people has said that you should wait around 12 hours after you have done a training event before being able to continue to the next one.
The servers are that slow.

**The Spartan (Returns)** · 06-19-2009, 16:41

I'll check it out when all the problems are resolved.

**Husar** · 06-19-2009, 17:01

Well, I was just trying to explain it, apparently the problems are really bad and the dev team has been fired already.
Looks like the army took the consequences rather quickly.

quick update: An ex-developer writes down his point of view and his post was quickly deleted, haven't read it yet myself, but maybe we can have some nice drama now.