WrathofTank on 03 July 2013
| yo_john117 said: P2P is probably the worst thing when it comes to online gaming, bring on the dedicated servers (finally!) so we can get rid of that blight. |
I can't entirely agree. The problem with dedicated servers is that whatever game that is using them will eventually be shut down, after that point you will no longer be able to play multiplayer. Also, 300,000 virtual servers isn't nearly enough to properly support all the regions that would need them for online multiplayer. That's the good thing about P2P, multiplayer will always work, and there are plenty of host to choose from that are located locally. When P2P is implemented properly it should work as good and in many instances better than dedicated servers.
All that said, I do hope that we will see a lot more games using dedicated servers because I think the pros mostly outweight the cons.
