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Originally Posted by teh603
I dunno, being one of the only Potter fans who didn't seem to get into the beta, I'm a little annoyed with Pottermore and its Insider right now. Being told the release is being delayed indefinitely and then seeing them post a "best of fanart" makes you want to go over there and give someone a piece of your mind.
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You're hardly one of the 'only' ones who didn't get in. There are millions of people who didn't get in. Including me. I listen to several Potter podcasts and people are fuming about the site itself not being up and running for both the site itself and those who just want to buy the danged books!!
They planned for 1 million beta testers. Logically, that means they expect traffic flow of 1 million people and they can handle that which would be the whole purpose in limiting the number of members right? Wrong! They've only got somewhere between 300,000 and 600,000 users not nearly the 1 million and they can't handle that. Servers keep crashing and all kinds of nonsense.
IMO somebody should be fired for that. They look like newbies. She & those involved in all aspects of Potter have boatloads of money. There should be no reason that the site doesn't work and fails because of server overload. Hire the right people. Buy the right equipment and get it done properly. They look utterly foolish at the moment and they dragged Sony along with them by promising the Potter reader. Ooops! Sorry, nevermind. Bad bad bad!
And that doesn't even begin to cover the missing the Christmas market discussion.
Oh and they never said the store was post-poned indefinitely either. They said it would open sometime in the first half of 2012.