Seamless loading

[Tournament0]

I don't even think it was a "Envy" video. Even if it was, that was probably a test map.

 

[edhe]

Useless regurgitation of other people's words, pointless non-opinion, cluttering rubbish, no explanations to statements.

 

[Bazzi]

they use several for 1 world in most cases. i know that in dark age of camelot, they had a cluster of 5 (i think it was anyway) dual xeon servers, each making up 1 game server. i'd expect most mmorpgs work the same.
as has already been said though, they handle such a large amount even on 1 server, because there's no physics, no collision detection, no fast paced action, it's really not much more than database lookups on the server side, and co-ordinate tracking, if you strip it down to it's basics.
meanwhile an fps game also has collision detection, physics, tracking location of particles and projectiles from weapon fire, and a lot quicker response is needed aswell.

Well yeah but you can be as crazy as putting 8 dual core opterons in a server right now so the number it doesnt really matter

 

[Enji]

Well they can make all of the conquest maps Epic owned and ran. A big company like Epic should be able to handle supporting servers that take full use of the real time physics, lighting, textures, and seamless loading for its players. But I guess we won't know for sure until they release information on what they're going to do.