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Originally Posted by jcs913
I think what people are forgetting is that SAE is a very small company. Why would they upgrade(meaning spend money) or frankly even think they need to upgrade, for less than an hours worth of heavy server traffic throughout the whole year. Seems beyond silly and not cost effective for their business and some of the complainers should realize this. If TT was not giving away OOP freebies, no one would ever care about SAE's web traffic (hint, not SAE's fault). Other larger retailers have to deal with holiday sales and so forth, so they need to upgrade their servers at the pace of web growth. When Best Buy's servers crashed last holiday, they lost millions and deservedly so, as they are a major player and should have been prepared. SAE is fine in what they are doing. They packaged items great and usually always ship priority mail, which even almighty Amazon does not do most of the time. I am happy that I got one and was frustrated that the site was slow, but some members were saying they would never buy again, etc..(we all know that will change when there is another high profile giveaway  ) That is stupid, as people, YET AGAIN, seem to forget they are getting something for NOTHING. Let's move on from this and start complaining about the fact that SAE seems to never ship the titles before street date anymore.... |
You raise some good points. From both a business and technology perspective, in my opinion, SAE should be thinking about infrastructure scalability, particularly as their business grows, in order to meet the need to have the capacity to handle the needs of a growing business. It would make more sense to invest in that now, then scramble later when they have no choice but to meet the business / technology need. Just my two cents.