[cod] Off-Topic: The Future of GSPs

[Oliver Warburton]

I think if GSP's and adding to that mix- those of you who host on your  
own dedicated servers for pure pleasure continue to patronise those  
companies that have no interest in you, then it doesn't look good.

If you really want to protect what we do, take a good look at Valve.  
Update after update for TF2- what is it now, what is it now, two and a  
half years on? Latest game L4D2, full, on release day, linux server  
support. The support Valve give us hosts is nothing short of  
brilliant. And I really think they don't get the credit they deserve.  
Which is probably why over the long term they continue to sell game  
after game.

Support those companies that look after you first!

With regards to the bandwidth, I don't think it's going to help, but  
you are still going to have the majority of people who do not know how  
to setup a dedicated server.

I think GSP's would be very wise not to rest on what they've got now,  
and be ready to cut their cloth accordingly.

Oliver Warburton
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On 2 Feb 2010, at 10:27, escapedturkey wrote:

> Do you believe GSPs will become obsolete as home bandwidth gets  
> larger and hardware evolves faster and smaller?
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