[cod] Off-Topic: The Future of GSPs

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All they proved was that throwing several million at a very broad marketing
campaign gets new warm bodies to part with a lot of their cash (60 euro!),
for a new five minute rush.

I usually watch a bit of discovery channel while trying to fall asleep, and
iirc all of december and half of january they frequently ran an ad claiming
that tonight (read: each night) was "modern warfare 2 night", complete with
a movie trailer type low voice and lots of flashy images. And then there
were plenty of targeted ads, presumably everywhere they could cram them.

 

From: Caleb Stephens [mailto:csteph9 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday 2 February 2010 21:26
To: Call of Duty server admin list.
Subject: Re: [cod] Off-Topic: The Future of GSPs

 

>>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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