All of them are on one non-instanced game world
Actually, every star system is an "instance". At least, it's functionally equivalent to an instance in other MMOs - the players are not directly connected to anyone in another system. They only receive messages from other systems via chat or mail.
all are continuously streaming information to and from the servers
Nope, there's a sampling rate. You can see it if you get to experience the joy of a major alliance v alliance war.
And it cannot fail or slow, because at any given monent thousands of these players might be gathered in mass battles against each other flying pretend spaceships sometimes worth hundreds of real world dollars each.
Um....no. In an actual 0.0 war, you can be sitting there mashing the "fire" button for minutes before something actually happens.
When they blow up the money is gone, so they damn well better not blow up due to some server failure.
Yeah, it's not like something like that caused the first titan kill or anything.
And it gets worse... where Eve Online has to accomodate all of these people on a single server (everyone must be able to interact with each other), the Obamacare website can subdivide people into as many servers as they need.
It's not actually a single server. It's multiple servers running in a cluster. They move systems around on the servers based on load. One physical server will handle a few low-population systems. Jita and systems in a 0.0 war are put on their own servers. The game just doesn't tell you when jumping through a gate is connecting to a new physical server.
I believe World of Warcraft is the largest, with about 10 Million subscribers
Which has so many separate servers and massive amounts of instancing, thus damaging the argument you were trying to make in the previous paragraphs.
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