Xelloss said:
JaggedSac said:
Xelloss said:
Well, the thing is - Quakelive uses dedicated servers.. even though it also has a ranking and tier system, the social networking features, and even a matchmaking service ( that I personally have never used).
Quakelive is actually the best current Pioneer IMO of the direction things need to go, if a retail game worked like Qlive but also offered 3rd parties to rent/operate semi-private dedicated servers that operated within their framework, and support for mods.... I think it would be outstanding.
The core of the issue here, is some businesspeople in the industry have fallen in love with the Xbox live/Halo model... and instead of taking away the good things about that model and applying it to PC sensibilities, and superior PC capabilities... they are abandoning what is good about PC... which makes no sense.
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Excellent post.
The Live/Halo model of matchmaking is definitely not the only possible solution. But the Quake Live solution can be expensive. id has gone on record as saying the ad revenue is not covering the server costs. There are improvements that could be made to both.
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True, in all fairness though - I have barely seen any ads in Qlive. But the general idea was that retail sales pay for the server infrastructure - just like IW expects for sales to pay for IWnet, sales paid for EA massive hosting of EA sponsored BF2 ranked servers, etc. Also, EA set a precent of injecting themselves into the revenue stream of the dedicated server market, I believe it costs money (paid to EA ) to privately host ranked BF2 server inderectly through their partnership programs with major hosting providers.
IP holders getting a piece of the dedi server revenue in exchange for hooking it up to their social networking infrastructure, while still utilizing key features of the PC community is a much better future IMO than a PC dominated by the Live/Halo model.
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Good points. We shall see how all this turns out. Interesting times.
