[cod] Off-Topic: The Future of GSPs

[Midnight]

Yep.  The game publishers don't care about providing a good online 
experience, because they don't want people to play the same game for a 
year or more.  They want them to get bored with it as soon as possible.

Sadly the general population doesn't seem to care about spending $60 a 
week on new games, even though they really can't afford it.  They won't 
realize this till their 40 and haven't a dime in their savings.  Talk 
about expensive, buying all these console games only to play them for a 
week, that's expensive.  Server hosting is nothing by comparison when 
each guy is chipping in.



Oliver Warburton wrote:
> 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.
>
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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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