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Re:Postmortem of Service Outage at 3.4M Concurrent Users by chickenfries on Friday February 09, 2018 @11:51AM (#16341715)
Because Free For All games are really popular right now, and they want their engine (Unreal) to be a competitive choice for these and other massively multiplayer games.
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Re:Postmortem of Service Outage at 3.4M Concurrent Users by 282883392 on Friday February 09, 2018 @12:21PM (#16342009)
Unreal is already an extremely competitive choice for multiplayer games (read: the best choice). They are putting resources to solving these problems because they are making millions of dollars from "free" players.
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