ShinmenTakezo said:
Machiavellian said:
Actually there is a MS cloud compute because they have an infrastructure they developed called Orleans. In other words it's their version of performing, replicating discrete computations in the cloud. Read up on it, its an interesting article.
No one has ever stated that big studios cannot support dedicated servers, what you did not say is the cost for those studios to pay for those servers. This is something that has been talked about from developers to publishers for a while. Its the reason why EA is quick to shut down servers for games where the player base reach a certain level. Trying to keep those servers up and maintained cost money and if most of these studios are renting from some other company then its more expensive. Most of the big boys do not want to have to purchase servers or rent them because its a cost. Having 100 or thousands of servers to serve up dedicated games around the world for millions of games does not make sense for a business that does not gain any money from that venture. This is why MS solution solves this for the big boys and the small indie.
MS offer a solution not just for the large studios but for all developers on their system. Now your 5 team indie MP game can stand toe to toe with the big boys. For the big boys now they have a platform thats takes away a lot of the management, cost and overhead of maintaining servers around the world which only show as an expense or cost not a profit.
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Actually you are 100% dead wrong. Cloud compute is cloud compute is cloud compute. MS doesn't have anything special dealing with cloud compute. You are drinking the juice.
The OP suggested big studios didn't use dedicated servers because of costs. I said otherwise. I am right of course. I don't need to post numbers to be right on that point. No one is arguing that dedicated servers aren't expensive. I wouldn't argue about that because I have done zero research into the costs of dedicated servers.
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You can tell me I am wrong all day but can you prove I am wrong. You say cloud compute is cloud compute but you did not take the time to actually read up on what Orleans is but dismiss the technology without even understanding what it does. If the tech is new and the implementation is different then what others are doing then it would mean its MS Cloud compute as they use it to solve business problems. What that means is the technology was built to solve a problem which is game code compute. Its implementation is different then MS other compute services like hosting business applications etc.
I was not arguing what the OP stated, I was arguing my opinion on the subject. So yes you are right on that one scope but your other points do not cover everyone
