Back in 1971, Nolan Bushnell of Atari said, "All the best games are easy to learn, and difficult to master," a design philosophy now treated as instinctual by nearly every designer in the industry. This describes a philosophy of smoothly escalating levels of investment. Casual to hardcore is not a binary option -- it's a sliding scale. We, as designers, want to find ways to smooth out that climb so that players increase their commitment level to our game. Good games convert casual players into hardcore ones, because these games are worth the investment.

[Monolith] says its software is a "multi-tenant, fault/event management and availability/performance monitoring solution" that collects, analyzes, and correlates data through web-based dashboards, which allows developers and publishers to visualize and monitor that information in real time.

BioWare chose Monolith's solution for its ability to manage the real-time monitoring of thousands of devices at several data centers in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The developer says the solution also fits into its Linux environment and met all of its requirements, including specific customizations.