Tokyo (Japan) - The company behind the development of Halo 3 said that after this summer's public beta it realized it needed three times more capacity than it initially had.

At a discussion during the Tokyo Game Show, Bungie production head Jonty Barnes talked about the effects of the game's beta test earlier this year.

Gamespot quoted Barnes as saying, "The amount of polish feedback was especially helpful, and we also found we had to triple our server capacity."

Barnes talked about the many positive factors of using a public beta to test out the kinks of a game.  He reportedly mentioned that user feedback drove the development team to work harder and that it was able to fix the technical issues that would have been difficult to pinpoint in a limited testing environment.

Halo 3 will launch September 25 in three versions ranging from $60 to $130.

Only trippled?

Sep 21, 2007 10:04     

By the pre-sales numbers alone I would have done a factor of 10 increase.
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Just 3 times?

Sep 21, 2007 10:16     

5 million will go and buy this game next week. They should have multiplied their servers by 15 or 16. I'll glady shell out $5-7 a month for dedicated servers.
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Kudos

Sep 21, 2007 11:12     

I hope more developers will do more beta testing on their product, since the two of the three consoles have hard drives and they can distribute to the machine via downloads. I am looking forward to wrapping up the Halo story.
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T-4 days...

Sep 21, 2007 12:45     

I'm not sure how many users played the beta, but its pretty safe to say that 99% of them will buy the game the first week its out. Then I think we can assume that at 10x that number of people will buy the game in the first month (most people don't play betas), so 3x the server capacity is pretty low. I hope they just mean 3x their projected capacity and not 3x their beta capacity.
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BTW...

Sep 21, 2007 12:46     

BTW, I'm looking forward to hearing the final number of pre-orders, I just got mine 2 days ago. Anybody have an idea of how many they're at now?
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Well...

Sep 21, 2007 12:47     

If they estimated x number of people buying the game and then 3x number bought the game then guess what !!! it's TRIPLED!!! genius..... not everyone plays online.... i guess they should hire chase and knight3058 to do their marketing research....
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