[cod] Off-Topic: The Future of GSPs

[escapedturkey]

It is quite a disappointing, though not surprising, decision on their 
part; mainly from the perspective of the hardcore gaming community: 
modifications, full control of dedicated servers (whether on a shared 
GSP machine or dedicated box), custom maps, full conversions, FTP 
access, etc., are some of the highlights and pride of running a clan or 
gaming community. Just my opinion. :)

Midnight wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> 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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