[cod] Off-Topic: The Future of GSPs

[escapedturkey]

It would be nice to see enough enthusiasm, desire, and motivation for 
the development of a tactical open source FPS alternative to COD; for 
example, like Warsow and Nexuiz for e-Sports.

Midnight wrote:
> 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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