[cod] Off-Topic: The Future of GSPs

[Caleb Stephens]

>>Only if ppl stop caring about low ping.

Activision and IW proved this beyond any reasonable doubt.  MW2 attracted
MORE players.  Biggest game release in history.

And league sites like TWL saw no dropoff in league interest.  In fact,
players are jumping through all kinds of hoops just to play competitively.
 It's retarded what they are doing, but they are doing it.  Game doesn't
matter.  Behavior persists.


Ping and game performance are the last things on players' minds.  Only the
die-hard computer centric geeks care.

ACTI and IW proved this, hard.




On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:41 AM, Midnight <midowns at gmail.com> wrote:

> Only if ppl stop caring about low ping.  GSP's have multiple Tier1 backbone
> connections and are usually 1ms off the main trunks.  Home connections
> typically have 10-20ms + first hops and only 1 ISP backbone directly
> connected.
>
> I think the bigger threat to GSP's is the game publishers cutting them out
> of the mix, to the detriment of their user base.  This will on diminish
> quality of hosting and increase price.
>
>
>
> escapedturkey wrote:
>
>> Do you believe GSPs will become obsolete as home bandwidth gets larger and
>> hardware evolves faster and smaller?
>>
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