Dedicated Or Peer?

Torrance Davis over at the Bitbag recently wrote a fairly interesting article about the way servers are hosted in online games, dedicated servers and peer-to-peer servers.

He went into some research and contacted both Sony and Microsoft about how most games are run, and found out that it all depends on the developers if a server is going to be dedicated. The costs are just too high for some companies, while big business freaks like EA have no problem covering the bill.

He does make a few brief, but good points. Don't judge a game based on how it's server happens to be run, judge a game based on how it plays. That's what I've always said, and Torrence said it just as well as I could have.

Go read about the servers now. Game on.


-Undrallio

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Konami ID goes down

Today many gamers were upset to discover that https://id.konami.net/ was down due to the overwhelming traffic received from people trying to register for the MGO Beta. To make matter worse, people seem to be having trouble downloading an update required to play the game.

It seems the site is back up, however many are reporting that they are receiving errors.

I guess Konami underestimated how many people would actually participate in the Beta. Lets just hope this doesn't foreshadow how the beta will play out.

And here is the rest of it.





-Ryizzel

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Sony's NOT Closing Servers

After a post I made a few days ago about Sony closing off some servers it turns out that it was all false information. The original site that stated that SCEA was axing the servers never got SCEA's word on it apperently.

"SCEA has made no announcements about shutting down the servers, so I'm not sure where this website got that info," an SCEA representative told Shacknews today. "Based on some of the game names it sounds like it is from another territory."

"It does stand to reason that eventually servers for older titles may be shut down due to lack of participation in those titles as more and more gamers are switching to PS3 and newer content," the representative concluded.

So quick everyone, go play Amplitude online while you still can!





-Undrallio

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Sony's Closing Servers

Playstation 2 didn't have the greatest online play, but there was some good titles out there if you looked hard enough, but after June 30th the servers that are listed after the break are going to be kaput.

Of course it really isn't that big of a surprise, we're in the next-gen now, the past will be erased and forgotten. Wow, that's kind of depressing.

Full list after the jump.

PlayStation 2

* Amplitude
* Destruction Derby Arenas
* Everybody’s Golf
* EyeToy Chat
* F1 ‘04
* Jak X
* Lemmings PS2
* My Street
* Syphon Filter Omega Strain
* This is Football 2004
* This is Football 2005
* Twisted Metal: Black Online

PSP

* Lemmings
* World Tour Soccer 2




-Undrallio

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