NJ5 said:
jetrii said:
ssj12 said:
JamesCizuz said:
People know Microsoft does this to right? Live is P2P, and if a game uses P2P, it's free for the developer, but games which use dedicated servers, such as left 4 dead, need to pay ALL cost of the servers. As well as XBL licensing fees are more per game on the marketplace, though they don't charge for bandwidth there. |
and this is why there is lag. P2P is not designed for gaming. It is designed for file sharing and downloading. Even with people getting faster connections it will never be enough to properly stream content for games.
I really dont see why publishers are complaining. Even with these added fees the PSN is still free for users to use which allows for more content to be purchased off the PSN versus off Live.
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You are both a little misinformed. Xbox Live and PSN work in essentially the same way. When youl og into Live/PSN, your ifno goes to the server and you're logged in. When you want to play a game online, you're taken into the server for that game where you can select which match/level to play. For most games on both platforms, once you find a game, a host is selected and the rest are clients. However the clients are fairly smart and should the host leave, they quickly and seamlessly select a new host and the game continues. Some older games don't do this and there is a second or two lag.
Both Xbox Live and PSN do this for most games. There are a gew games in which the host is actually run by a server on Xbox Live and PSN, but this is not the case for most games so don't pretend it is. The main difference is that once an Xbox 360 developer finishes a game, they give Microsoft the code and Microsoft handles everything for them. PSN developers need to either run all the servers themselves or pay Sony an additional fee to do it for them.
Also, 16 cents per GB is very reasonable compared to other distribution companies. It's not for games, but the company in which I work in pays around 50% more to distribute very large content around to clients.
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Judging from the links I found, your company is either pushing a small amount of traffic or you're getting ripped off, because the average CDN seems to charge less than $0.10 per GB.
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There is a huge difference between "your files will be up 99.99% of the time" and "your files will be up 100% of the time with full insurance." We are not getting ripped off, we just require higher service than others can provide.
