[cod] Off-Topic: The Future of GSPs

[Mavrick]

Here in Australia they're introducing Fibre to Home under the new 
National Broadband Network, apparently it's going to cost over 14billion 
(of tax payers, you & me) dollars.

However I don't see the end of GSP's, open-source will introduce a new 
breed of games that players, hardcore gamers and clans will be willing 
to pay the price to host on high quality servers, with high quality 
non-congested networks.

escapedturkey wrote:
> I'm starting to wonder if the future of hardcore PC gaming community 
> (with a desire to run servers under their own complete control) will 
> be on open-source / independent projects; for example, Warsow, Alien 
> Arena, Nexuiz, etc.
>
> RedDragon wrote:
>> I think, it isn't the bandwidth.
>> The publisher heading is from dedicated servers to peer2peer. In some 
>> cases like EA/Dice the server are too expensive for most clans and 
>> communitys to rent them for a cupple of months.
>>
>> -RedDragon (clanleader)
>>
>> Am 02.02.2010 11:27, schrieb escapedturkey:
>>> Do you believe GSPs will become obsolete as home bandwidth gets 
>>> larger and hardware evolves faster and smaller?
>>>
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