06-12-2012, 01:08 PM
(06-12-2012, 11:58 AM)MongoJerry Wrote: My point was, Quark, that the programmer who designed the AH didn't know much about designing databases with over 100k rows, either. It seemed like a very slap-dash job for something that was supposed to be a central feature in the game.
The fact that it's functional at all with over 6 million players says you don't know what you're talking about. The UI is cruddy, but with the commodities now live again I haven't seen any true issue with the backbone of the AH. Trust me, if someone without extensive experience in databases (say, all those people who cleaned up WoW's item lag that used to exist?) had developed this, the AH wouldn't have been up at all. The sheer amount of data it has to process is staggering. Remember, they don't have the benefit of splitting all these players across 100 servers (3 regions?) - something is centralized, and that something has to handle all this in a timely fashion.
Armchair posts about how easy a fix to an issue will be, or how a company didn't understand the server needs, will almost always be a giant pet peeve.
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