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Background: The studio is expanding its playtest group, and Night Watchman, now the community test captain, has to welcome new players while keeping each session steady. Today: On Friday’s playtest night, one hundred people were online at the same time, setting a record. Impact and next steps: The enlarged playtest group still needed to show it could run under real player traffic, and this session cleared at least the simultaneous-online hurdle.
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Background: The studio is expanding its playtest group, and Night Watchman, now the community test captain, has to welcome new players while keeping each session steady. Tonight, the main concern is whether the server can handle many people online at once.
Today: On Friday’s playtest night, one hundred people were online at the same time, setting a record. Night Watchman watched player feedback and waited to see whether connections would fail; the server held, and the group completed the session.
Impact and next steps: The enlarged playtest group still needed to show it could run under real player traffic, and this session cleared at least the simultaneous-online hurdle. Night Watchman can keep organizing larger tests, but the team still needs to sort through the feedback, and the server’s capacity limit remains unknown.