As the Firmament Game Pods went on sale worldwide, downloads for the PC and mobile versions also opened.
After all, the servers would officially launch tomorrow. How could people not download it in advance?
Many people were worried. With a simultaneous global launch like this, could Phantom Immortal Technology's download servers withstand such enormous pressure?
Then there was network bandwidth. If download speeds were only in the kilobytes per second, everyone could forget about playing.
A game of this scale had to be at least several dozen gigabytes. The graphics for the mobile version might have been adjusted, but it should still have been ten gigabytes or so.
With conventional smartphones from before, running a game of one or two gigabytes was already pretty good. A ten-gigabyte mobile game? Nobody had even heard of one. But after the rise of the Phantom Spirit Phone, phones suddenly became incredible. Over the past six months, several mobile games of ten gigabytes or more had been released, and the market response had been good.
But those earlier games had smaller audiences, and there were plenty of other games on the market. Having tens of thousands of people downloading simultaneously was already impressive.
Now, though, even an idiot could imagine how insanely popular the Firmament download would be!
Perhaps four or five billion people wouldn't download it simultaneously, but a billion certainly would! Could current communications technology handle that kind of pressure?
In fact, players weren't the only ones anxious about this. Back when Shen Bing announced Firmament, the senior executives of Huaxia's four major telecom operators had nearly suffered heart attacks.
They had no choice but to worry. What kind of standing did Phantom Immortal Technology have in Huaxia?
Fine, even setting its standing aside, the importance of Firmament alone was enough to