Thu Oct 28, 2010 7:45 pm by Bruinsbold
I've managed IT departments before and supporting this many connections shouldn't be a problem, if you're aware that it's coming and have time to prepare for it.
There's no reason to start a PVP competition if you know you've added hundreds (thousands) of new users and the last time you had the comp the lag was crazy, UNLESS you've done something to improve the situation.
Better load balancers, more efficient code, higher end machines, more bandwidth, all of the above.
I don't know that any of that was done. It could have been, but it doesn't look like it. The main problem is a lack of communication from Haypi on all this.