Guerrila is preparing to receive millions of players with Horizon: Online

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• A recent Guerrilla job listing hints at the studio building live-service systems for the Horizon multiplayer game that can support over one million players.

Guerrilla might be expecting over one million players for the Horizon multiplayer game. This was hinted at in the role's requirements, where one of them mentions "proven experience building and operating multi service, 1M+ user globally distributed systems across multiple public cloud providers." It seems Guerrilla could also be building a robust live-service infrastructure for the Horizon multiplayer project that can support more than one million players.

Guerrilla Might Be Ensuring a Trouble-Free Launch for the Horizon Multiplayer Game​

Conversely, this may be less of an expectation for Guerrilla and more of a precautionary measure to ensure players face no difficulties during the Horizon multiplayer game's onboarding process. For instance, Helldivers 2's servers were extremely overwhelmed for a few weeks due to the game's unexpectedly immense popularity on PS5 and PC, acting as a hindrance for both existing and new players. Therefore, it wouldn't be too unreasonable to assume that Guerrilla wishes to avoid such a situation for the Horizon multiplayer game. While there isn't any guarantee that the Horizon multiplayer game will see similar levels of success as Helldivers 2, one can't fault Guerrilla for wanting to come prepared regardless.

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