[cod] Off-Topic: The Future of GSPs

[Midnight]

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

There are simply more people with Xbox & Playstation 3 then there was 
years ago, and a dearth of decent games since Halo.  Of course they are 
all going to buy what is one of the top games of the year for consoles.  
They haven't proved anything more than that the console market is bigger 
than it used to be.  That and also that console players are noobs who's 
lack of good ping is dwarfed only by their terrible skils at FPS games 
so it doesn't matter.

Tyson is right, the next MW will likely be only console.  Why bother 
with 3% of the market at this point?  PCs could have been 40% of the 
market if they didn't castrate the game.  But you can't tell them that. 

It is a self fulfillng business decision -> Ruin the game, drive down PC 
sales, then point to how bad PC sales are so you can just abandon it 
altogether.

Let's face it, the game publishers are greedy and they like how the noob 
consolers will buy a new game / DLC every week without blinking and then 
throw it in the corner a week later because it's boring.



Tyson wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Tyson
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> *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
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> >>Only if ppl stop caring about low ping.
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> Activision and IW proved this beyond any reasonable doubt.  MW2 
> attracted MORE players.  Biggest game release in history.
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> 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.
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> Ping and game performance are the last things on players' minds.  Only 
> the die-hard computer centric geeks care.
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> ACTI and IW proved this, hard.
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> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:41 AM, Midnight <midowns at gmail.com 
> <mailto:midowns at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> escapedturkey wrote:
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> Do you believe GSPs will become obsolete as home bandwidth gets larger 
> and hardware evolves faster and smaller?
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