[cod] Off-Topic: The Future of GSPs

[Tyson]

Considering only 3% of the total sales for MW2 were PC they didn't prove
anything other than only the hard core PC gamers i.e. twl/cal types actually
bought the game for PC and the noobs new to the franchise that don't know
any better.

 

In fact they proved how easy it was to kill the game for PC and make it
bigger on a locked in market like the consoles. The next MW will probably
only be Console just like Halo at this rate.

 

Tyson

 

From: Caleb Stephens [mailto:csteph9 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 1:26 PM
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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