[cod] Off-Topic: The Future of GSPs

[Oliver Warburton]

I'm afraid it's all down to the average intelligence and concentration  
span of the console user.

I recently talked to a friend who has just 'found' online gaming.  
'Have you got Xbox live?' he asked.

When I quizzed him about his gaming habits, he'd given up on the COD6  
campaign mode- ' got bored'. And couldn't be doing with the  
multiplayer mode- 'too hard'. He's now moved onto another game, and  
will no doubt have bought another one by the weekend. I did try and  
explain to him how I've been playing games 'online' for something like  
8 years now- recounting a tale of how I used to play CS 1.5 for 8  
hours a day obsessively, lol :) He just didn't get it.

What's important here, is we remember that this is who the game makers  
are now catering for. We're a minority when it comes to gaming now. A  
real minority.

Oliver Warburton
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On 2 Feb 2010, at 11:17, 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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