[cod] Off-Topic: The Future of GSPs

[Seth Sauls]

Couldn't agree more.  Since MW2 has shown to be a success money wise i
expect more and more publishers/devs to go the same route.  More and more
GSP's will be left out as games moves to P2P online play.  If this trend
continues as I suspect it will I would say that within 2 years maybe 3 GSP's
will be obsolete.  It could happen sooner.

MW2 was the start and if the figures are correct then that Billion dollars
in sales will make this form of online play very attractive.  Why because
then the publishers will control the game totaly.  DLC for pay and no more
needs for modders and mappers.  BFBC2 is the next step and great
experiment.  What is the max player count for BFBC2, 16 players or is it
18.  Yup more and more like console crap.

Expect the same and expect the GSP's to go the way of the dinosaur's

Wizz

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Caleb Stephens <csteph9 at gmail.com> wrote:

> >>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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