[cod] Off-Topic: The Future of GSPs

[Midnight]

That's why I didn't buy MW2.  Excuse my French but f that.  I will never 
buy a multiplayer game that is p2p.  I'll leave that for console noobs.

Not buying BC2 either, with their preferred partner nonsense and 
charging license fees for hosting.  I hope everyone has fun playing on 
massively overloaded boxes.


Oliver Warburton wrote:
> 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.
>
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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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