joether
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I do find one thing amusing in all this. The length conservatives will go to show that all this is....some how.....directly the President's fault. I'm going to take the educated guess that the President nor Vice President had any direct dealings with the company that screwed this system up. But then, understanding launch days for companies that server a few million customers, things do tend to not go as planned.
Blizzard Entertainment, when it first opened its MMO game, World of Warcraft, was plagued with problems of every sort. Servers went up and down every few minutes or hours. There was bad code, things didn't work as intended, people couldn't access their accounts. Basically, the game had a very rocky first few months of life. Unlike the healthcare.gov site, your game 'lives or dies' in those first few months. Fortunately, Blizzard had a reputation of making good quality games. World of Warcraft had more content then its competitors, but didn't expect players to get to the end game quite as quickly. Still, with all the problems, they gave out freebies with those apologizes. They game free time, free loot, and a few other free items. Basically, they behaved like a good company should when trying to please the public.
Rockstar Games, makers of Grand Theft Auto V have had a number of server problems. While I don't have the game yet, I've heard there have been problems of all kinds and colors. The company sold a billion dollars worth of product in its first three days! Many other companies with hundreds of thousands if not millions of customers experience problems when their games have launched. Borderlands 2 by 2K Games had numerous problems on each of the consoles and PC versions. EA Games title out soon, Battlefield 4, will not doubtfully be full of problems. Microsoft gains its fair share of problems when it releases stuff. In fact, most companies experience problems of one sort or another not just on launch day but in the first few days, weeks or months of its release. You can do all the planning, checking/rechecking, and test releases (they are called Public Betas); but nothing prepares the company when the release of their product(s)/service(s) takes place.
The information I have from several sources state that there was a pile of coding problems. The logistics was not well thought out and that has caused problems on release. Likewise, those systems were not designed to handle a few tens of millions of users trying to access it in the same hour. My advice when this stuff happened to people, was the same as it was for patch days on any MMO.....give it a few days for all the major problems to work themselves out. In healthcare.gov, maybe give it two or three weeks.
Of course, there are those people that delight in taking down sites for fun, games, or some other sinister agenda. Who would have the most to gain by having this site face problem after problem? Who would benefit the most from this element of the Affordable Care Act not working for the average American in the nation?
< Message edited by joether -- 10/11/2013 2:59:08 AM >
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