| Machiavellian said: Yeah maybe you should stop reading and actually DO it. Reading about something does not give you practical experience. I work as a developer on business critical code that are hosted on cloud platfoms. We run entire business within the cloud. I know how the technology works very well, what I do not know is how well it will work within games. There are many different scenerios I can think of that may benefit a game but since I do not develop in those areas they are just ideals. Most developers know the scene and what the player will be doing in any given moment of their game. A lot of pre calucations can be sent, processed and stored in memory, thus releaving the CPU/GPU from those task and allow them to concentrate on the immediate input from the gamer. You can tell me you have friends who are developers but that means absolutly nothing. There are many different developers that work on different parts of a game. Even then, if they have not explored cloud compute, they would be no different from a graphics programmer trying to tell a network programmer how to code against the net. That whole sentence is a very arrogant statement as if being a programmer immediatly gives you insight into everything without the practical experience. I have to call this statement out because its one of the big problems with people on the net who THINK they know something without any practical knowledge. You don't need to be a game dev to know EXACTLY how cloud-computing works. Have you ever programmed to a platform like Azure or Amazon cloud infrastructure. Do you even know what it takes to host an entire business on the cloud. Have you ever coded a game or even an MMO. Do not tell me about what you think unless you actually have practical knowledge on how its done. I am not going to sit here and tell you how it will be done just because I develop code. Without the practical experience, I can only make quesses and even then I would not know if I was on target or not without actually doing it. There were many developers asked about the whole cloud compute thing and their answers was that they needed to test it. |
Well I'm sorry that you are the type of person who needs to do something himself to figure out how it works. Suppose that's why I'm a researcher and not a mechanic.
Don't care if you think I'm arrogant. Fact is you boil down an operation to the least amount of parameters and see where the breaking point is. Not very hard.
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