Why do servers on video games shut down often? Isn’t there a permanent fix?
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If you mean randomly shut down, I don’t think it’s that often.
If you mean shutting down for scheduled maintenance, then that’s your answer: Scheduled Maintenance.
Just like when Windows has an update and need to be updated, and requires a restart, so too do the servers that operate the back-end of games. So the people who run the servers will schedule times to bring the servers down, apply patches and update, and then reboot them (also allows for them to make any scheduled hardware updates like RAM and HDD changes). Rather than have the servers come down unexpectedly and impact their players’ experiences, they schedule this maintenance.
If you’re playing a game whose servers are going down unexpectedly and regularly, chances are the player base is going to quickly diminish and the game will likely not survive long, or have a huge player base. *cough* Atlas *cough* Demigod *cough*…
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