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Message: <blockquote data-quote="buzz" data-source="post: 2262082" data-attributes="member: 6777">Yes. Given that it's a registration system, I don't see it as unreasonable to expect that, yes, it will work when people try to register.GenCon sees about 25,000 attendees. Since we know that not all of these people register for events, and not all of these people register in the first three days (much less the first three hours), we can estimate that the number of people hitting the server when registration opens is less than this number. As many of the IT folk who frequent gaming sites can tell you, building a system that can handle this load wihtout grinding to a halt every year is well within GenCon, LLC's budget. If ENWorld can be functional with over 2000 users on at the same time, surely an organization that's actually operating at a profit can set up a registration databse that won't hose itself the minute registration opens.It's not a money issue. It's a competency issue.Saying, essentially, that GenCon attendees --most of whom take on travel, lodging, and eating expenses to attend-- should just get used to it becasue GenCon, LLC can't be expected to bother improving the system is something that I, honestly, find sort of insulting.</blockquote>