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<blockquote data-quote="FAST6191" data-source="post: 8286575" data-attributes="member: 32303"><p>If it was some rare and diminishing resource, or one which suddenly becomes harder to produce then sure. You know what is not that though? Bandwidth, server computing power, server storage and any other metric you care to list that you measure servers by. At the same time Nintendo is doing the same sorts of games sending the same sorts of data we have done since dial up (it is not like they suddenly shifted to 4k video from 360p -- it is still 8 players positional data, weapon info, weapon firing info, possibly pickup info and general score counts). If they were running some crazy mmo which needed loads of servers, stored terabytes of data, calculates loads of data, handles massive databases and generally does all that then we can talk further (though I figure there is a reason they have subscriptions or are pay to do much more than demo). </p><p>I ran the numbers earlier for monthly rental of an enterprise server setup for every region of some potency that would probably handle it (never mind that things are still doing p2p and thus they don't even need that swish a setup) would be 40 to 50K GBP for the full 5 years which is a rounding error in game budgets, if they wanted to rent a year upfront that drops to 10K which if it is a good game will be made back in no time and fund the rest of the time. Furthermore end users have wanted to run their own servers for years now, and demonstrably do for many things (EA, activision, Microsoft and all those which run any popular FPS probably make a small chunk of change from those that want to "rent servers" rather than play on public ones).</p><p>If you are EA or ubisoft then you can probably rent some time on EA's/Ubisoft's server farms they likely have or pay for as part of being them (if they don't they are bigger fools than I thought) which is all nicely load balanced, scaleable, has someone to keep it running (probably for all the games as well which means you are not paying a team for one game as much as a bunch of them) for far less than that.</p><p></p><p>To that end they are gating off online to make people pay for something that confers them no real benefit for it. if they are thinking about charging it is because they are greedy bastards offering a poor deal and I will call that out when I see it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FAST6191, post: 8286575, member: 32303"] If it was some rare and diminishing resource, or one which suddenly becomes harder to produce then sure. You know what is not that though? Bandwidth, server computing power, server storage and any other metric you care to list that you measure servers by. At the same time Nintendo is doing the same sorts of games sending the same sorts of data we have done since dial up (it is not like they suddenly shifted to 4k video from 360p -- it is still 8 players positional data, weapon info, weapon firing info, possibly pickup info and general score counts). If they were running some crazy mmo which needed loads of servers, stored terabytes of data, calculates loads of data, handles massive databases and generally does all that then we can talk further (though I figure there is a reason they have subscriptions or are pay to do much more than demo). I ran the numbers earlier for monthly rental of an enterprise server setup for every region of some potency that would probably handle it (never mind that things are still doing p2p and thus they don't even need that swish a setup) would be 40 to 50K GBP for the full 5 years which is a rounding error in game budgets, if they wanted to rent a year upfront that drops to 10K which if it is a good game will be made back in no time and fund the rest of the time. Furthermore end users have wanted to run their own servers for years now, and demonstrably do for many things (EA, activision, Microsoft and all those which run any popular FPS probably make a small chunk of change from those that want to "rent servers" rather than play on public ones). If you are EA or ubisoft then you can probably rent some time on EA's/Ubisoft's server farms they likely have or pay for as part of being them (if they don't they are bigger fools than I thought) which is all nicely load balanced, scaleable, has someone to keep it running (probably for all the games as well which means you are not paying a team for one game as much as a bunch of them) for far less than that. To that end they are gating off online to make people pay for something that confers them no real benefit for it. if they are thinking about charging it is because they are greedy bastards offering a poor deal and I will call that out when I see it. [/QUOTE]
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