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Guild Wars 2: Scaling from One to Millions

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Guild Wars 2 developers can run the entire Guild Wars server stack and the game client on a single machine. This same code scales to support a million players. In this session, ArenaNet studio technical director Stephen Clarke-Willson will discuss the challenges and benefits of scaling Guild Wars 2. He'll provide examples of how technology was developed to support a massive range of scaling for the award-winning online roleplaying game.

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  • GDC 2013
  • Stephen Clarke-Willson, Ph.D.
  • ArenaNet
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