[cod] Off-Topic: The Future of GSPs

[[FnG] Lambik]

It's already mentioned here before, the main target of gameDevs is young
ppl, as their interest span for a game only lasts a month. Added to that the
youth seem to have loads of money to spend, which enables them to buy a new
game every month(maybe even week).
When a game lasts 2 - 3 year (like UT2K4 did) the gameDevs will have costs
on 'after-sales' support, which only drains money from the shareholders,
that is of course not acceptable ;) So basically flood the market with easy
to 'host' multi-player games, that will guaranty a good cash-flow.

What surprises me most is how easy ppl accept the degrade of game play, I
have heard of ppl complain about the controls and use the excuse 'We're all
in the same boat, so that makes it right !' frik'n stupid if you ask me.

What can we do about it ? Actually nothing much if you ask me, we can
repeatedly be whining on mailing lists.

There is one alternative :
It's also mentioned here before => Create an opensource game
platform<engine>, on which the communities can create their own games.
As they are able to make mods, maps, mutators, I don't think they will be
far of on creating a whole game.
The biggest problem they have, is the lack of a descent free game engine, so
why not combine the knowledge and start a project(or continue if there
already is a project for it) on sourceforge.net  (Cube=> sauerbraten)
Maybe Ryan Gordon have good info on this.

Soon you will have enough free time on your hands, as console games will be
the only games left :D

Lambik



On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Midnight <midowns at gmail.com> wrote:

>  "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:
>
>  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 <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.
>
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>
> 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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