With the eagerly anticipated release of Hasbro’s Monopoly City Streets, 10’s of thousands of gamers attempted to access the site when it went live just after 12:15 GMT today. The surge in visitors virtually knocked the site offline and people around the world reported slow or sluggish response times – not to mention tempers flaring when they realized they couldn’t get the streets they wanted.
After many page refreshes we finally got to the Flash animation and in to the site and started searching around – check out the screenshot below! Naturally, by the time you access this site, all the major roads will have gone, so you’ll be left fighting for the scraps, like the street you live on (which we’re sure is a lovely street, but it’s not Wall Street now, is it?).
In the meantime, if you still can’t access the site, the only option is to keep trying to refresh. I still don’t understand why companies do this. They build themselves up for a big launch and completely fail to take in to account the server requirements. The result? Stressed and pissed off users.