[cod] Off-Topic: The Future of GSPs

Midnight midowns at gmail.com
Tue Feb 2 06:17:23 EST 2010


Ya I think CS Pro Mod is a huge step in the right direction, and 
hopefully other projects will follow in their footsteps.  Sadly so many 
noobs buy games for 10 hours of single player that it kinda dilutes the 
power of a boycott.  And so many xbox players buy FPS games now that it 
is hurting the PC side.  Everything is getting watered down to the least 
common denominator which is basically a $150 console and p2p hosting.  Sad.


Mavrick wrote:
> 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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