Foxtel elaborates on Game of Thrones glitch
Following last night’s collapse of Foxtel streaming services as subscribers surged to watch Game of Thrones, the company has issued another apology and elaborated on the cause of the glitch.
According to Foxtel, the cause of the problems lay with the company’s Identity Management System (IDM) being hit with 70,000 transactions in just a few hours, instead of its normal daily load of around 5,000.
Due to the problems, Foxtel has rescheduled the episode to screen tonight at 9.15pm, on Wednesday at 1.20pm, Thursday at 10.10pm, Friday at 11.25am and Saturday at 8.30pm, along with showings on the Showcase Channel. The program is also available on demand.
The on demand service that you need to sign up for a couple of days before you need it.
Game of Thrones was popular and they didn’t cater for demand….are they really that stupid?
So that deflection attempting to say HBO also had problems was exactly what it smelt like? Bullshit.
Australia’s most hated Brand?
Definitely
On the plus side, Foxtel will never have this kind of “unprecedented demand” again, because people are just going to go back to pirating Game Of Thrones via torrents – ironically a system which benefits from having more and more users…
Ahhh Foxtel.
They had one chance to get this right and they totally screwed it! For at least the two years they’ve been pushing against piracy and talking about delivering more user friendly services – yet their systems and service is rubbish, and their brand relaunch was stolen from another company.
Wow, it’s screening again tonight, eh?
As if all those disgruntled people haven’t downloaded it illegally by now. The popularity of GOT is nothing new. What were they expecting? Such a huge inexcusable fail.