title: How to build a highly scaleable global counter in Azure?
body: <p>I am trying to setup in Windows Azure a global counter which would keep track of the number of games started within a day. Each time a player starts a game, a Web Service call is made from the client to the server and a global counter would be incremented by one. This should be fairly simple to do with a database... But I wonder how I could efficiently do this. The database approach is good for a few hundreds clients simultaneously, but what will happen if I have 100,000 clients? </p>
  
  <p>Thanks for your help/ideas!</p>