this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2024
433 points (96.6% liked)

Games

32905 readers
1564 users here now

Welcome to the largest gaming community on Lemmy! Discussion for all kinds of games. Video games, tabletop games, card games etc.

Weekly Threads:

What Are You Playing?

The Weekly Discussion Topic

Rules:

  1. Submissions have to be related to games

  2. No bigotry or harassment, be civil

  3. No excessive self-promotion

  4. Stay on-topic; no memes, funny videos, giveaways, reposts, or low-effort posts

  5. Mark Spoilers and NSFW

  6. No linking to piracy

More information about the community rules can be found here.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 months ago (14 children)

Next it’ll be 1000 star systems while we’re still waiting on Squadron 42.

[–] limitedduck@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago (12 children)

Personally, I don't think they should be aiming for 100 anymore, even if it was promised. That number was for the original pitch and was arbitrarily high since it was for a much shallower and easier to create game

[–] jagermo@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago (8 children)

The original pitch also had dedicated servers and those are gone, sadly.

[–] limitedduck@awful.systems 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

How are they gone? The current servers are hosted by CIG, there's no p2p or player hosted servers. How would that even work for an MMO?

[–] lime@feddit.nu 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

dedicated servers == player-hosted servers, usually

[–] limitedduck@awful.systems 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I would say private server is more what you're referring to, also CIG's wording, but maybe agree to disagree. A quick search says that they haven't cancelled that feature, but it'll appropriately be the very last thing they work on

[–] lime@feddit.nu 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

the common understanding of "dedicated server" is a server binary you can download and run yourself. a "private server" is usually still hosted on the company's hardware.

[–] limitedduck@awful.systems -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can understand you have different criteria for dedicated servers, but private servers are certainly not generally characterized by still being on 1st party hardware. You need only look at private servers for Minecraft, WoW, and the like

[–] lime@feddit.nu 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

minecraft server binaries are a prime example of a "dedicated server". tf2 is another. the alternative is a "listen server", where one player acts as server. note that the term's use in gaming has very little to do with the concept of a dedicated server in general use, aka a machine dedicated to running a service. in multiplayer games a dedicated server is just the name for a binary that contains no client.

anyway, the important distinction is whether the means for the game to continue existing is in the hands of the players or the company.

[–] limitedduck@awful.systems 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I understand, what confused me was your claim about the common understanding of the term when there are very much two valid and ubiquitous contexts.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 1 month ago

honestly i think it's an age range thing.

load more comments (6 replies)
load more comments (9 replies)
load more comments (10 replies)