Customer Introduction
After over three years of development, Wuthering Waves garnered over 32 million pre-registrations across the entire network. As a large-scale game product with global influence, technical metrics, and business scale, the Wuthering Waves Team partnered with Tencent Cloud to leverage its technical, performance, and security advantages, ensuring a stable launch and sustained operation for a product with hundreds of millions of users.
Challenges & Goals
- Technical Architecture Challenges: As a cross-platform, multi-device open-world action game, Wuthering Waves underwent a three-year development process with a fully containerized architecture, presenting challenges such as long development cycles, high costs, and significant technical complexity.
- Massive Data Challenges:With over 32 million pre-registrations and data storage reaching hundreds of terabytes, Wuthering Waves, as an open-world action game, required robust performance optimization and high-concurrency load capacity for its launch.
- Security and Protection Challenges: Launching globally, Wuthering Waves faced varying security review policies across countries and regions, necessitating meticulous compliance management. Additionally, the game''''''''s popularity made it a target for cyberattacks, so it required comprehensive protection to safeguard its ecosystem.
Why Tencent Cloud
Tencent Cloud ensures the global simultaneous launch and long-term operation of Wuthering Waves across multiple dimensions.
Highlighted Benefits
- Game R&D Technology Boosted Efficiency:Utilizing GoSkinning and Tencent''''''''s AIGC capabilities, the project automated skinning for various characters and outfits including humanoids, quadrupeds, monsters, etc., significantly reducing animators'''''''' workload. Tencent TAPD provided end-to-end services throughout the agile development lifecycle, enhancing game R&D collaboration efficiency and performance. Additionally, the team refined capabilities in data storage optimization, systematic stress testing, log processing and analysis, and hotfix rollbacks.
- Containerized Architecture Supports Global Players: A unified containerized architecture across six global regions enabled minute-level game server deployment, efficiently handling the peaks and valleys of periodic updates and card pool changes. The high-concurrency, high-load, and highly elastic global distribution of cloud container image repositories ensured game resources were deployed point-to-point worldwide, allowing global players to compete seamlessly.
- 360-Degree Quality and Security Assurance:WeTest ensured comprehensive quality assurance from R&D to operation. ACE''''''''s self-configuring anti-cheat strategies detected and countered common hacks, while intelligent content monitoring addressed compliance requirements of different countries and regions and assessed risky gameplay elements.