A few days before the release date, the servers will crash.
A couple of days before the release date, the servers will crash.
A day before the release date, the servers will crash.
The day of release, the servers will crash.
The day after the release, the servers will crash.
Two days after the release, the servers will crash.
Three days after the release, the servers will crash.
Servers could go down for several days and even up to a week.
Not that I'm criticizing anyone preordering the game, cos there'll still be gaps when servers will be running which will give people a chance to download it before the crash at it's peak. I just wanted to express the impact of the servers crashing in more detail than lots of people think.
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and I Don't have: Magnovox Odyssey, Any Atari's, Any Macintosh computers, Sega Gamegear, Virtual Boy, Sega Saturn, N-gage, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PSP, PSVita & Andoid Phone. Plus any non-mainstream consoles/platforms I haven't mentioned.
