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KolibriFly 31 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The gamers taking on the industry to stop it switc...

Just don't design the game so that, when the business model stops working, every paid copy becomes a brick

rolph 31 days ago [–]

i remember when multiplayer games could be connected to a user operated server.

the basic function of a multiplayer server is to keep the players game state synched, large numbers of players, and very fast gameplay vs connection rate and jitter is fly in ointment.

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