14 DAY TRIAL // Bungie has promised that its upcoming Destiny first-person shooter won't experience any outages or issues on launch day on September 9, as the studio and its publishing partner, Activision, have invested heavily in the infrastructure for the online game.
Destiny promises to deliver a new type of first-person shooter experience, with players exploring an open world filled with enemies and other players just like themselves, either doing story missions or simple quests taken from a central Tower location.
As you can imagine, such an ambitious project needs a solid online and server infrastructure to maintain and Bungie is certain that Destiny has such a system in place.
While talking with GamesIndustry, Bungie's Pete Parson has revealed that the online system began setting up more than a year ago and the recent alpha test has served as a first limited test of its capability.
"There's a reason why we've been doing, the reason why we have this Alpha, the reason why these people are playing off the same data centre, if the internet goes down or a meteor hits our data centre, we're not playing on the floor today," he said.
"There's no safeguards in place. We're playing on our thing and that's an active test for us. It's always scary and exciting and to put your work out in front of people who are judging it but it's also, it's scary to put it out there because you're testing whether it's going to work or not."
Because of these investments, as well as due to the upcoming beta stage that will be available on all four platforms, not just on PS4 like the alpha, Bungie is certain that the actual launch will be a smooth one without any issues or outages.
"We've been investing into it to make sure that we have the best experience possible and I think we have to ultimately see what happens but we have every expectation of from moment one, having a great experience."
Also, if things do happen, Parson has pledged that Bungie has different safeguards and backups in place in order to ensure that the game remains online and fully playable.
"When things happen, whether it's with us or the internet, we have things in place. There's elegance in what we do so we have plenty of safeguards for this."
Destiny's beta next month will be a true test of the upcoming game and it's going to be interesting to see just how the title will perform in September, when it officially becomes available around the world.