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Re:The best thing that has ever happened for multiplayer games by faize on Friday June 26, 2026 @10:43AM (#48687237)
I'm not fully up to scratch with the latest AWS tactics, but to me, this seems like another way to get people to move to their platform and then charge for bandwidth at a later date, ultimately trapping their consumers.

Also, this whole post just felt like a brag, i'm not surprised it barely got any upvotes

Re:The best thing that has ever happened for multiplayer games by Tepix on Friday June 26, 2026 @11:14AM (#48687624)
Agreed on the bragging.

Also I‘m not convinced about the whole cost issue. A nice server from a bare metal provider like OVH will be so much cheaper than the AWS equivalent, you can pay for a ton of traffic.

Re:The best thing that has ever happened for multiplayer games by gafferongames on Sunday June 28, 2026 @07:26PM (#48712865)
You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it drink
Re:The best thing that has ever happened for multiplayer games by jader201 on Friday June 26, 2026 @10:52AM (#48687353)
> Also, this whole post just felt like a brag, i'm not surprised it barely got any upvotes

Yeah, opening with:

> I'm a world expert in game netcode

Felt like an odd way to start the article.

Maybe OP is job farming?

Re:The best thing that has ever happened for multiplayer games by stephc_int13 on Friday June 26, 2026 @10:56AM (#48687402)
He is one of the well known netcode guy.

But from the few interactions I had with him I would say he is quite abrasive, stubborn and probably somewhat on the spectrum.

But there is a special kind of unpleasantness in writing/debugging netcode for large projects, I don't think you can be agreeable and still you your job correctly.

Re:The best thing that has ever happened for multiplayer games by reitzensteinm on Friday June 26, 2026 @11:17AM (#48687677)
If anything, in immature engineering organizations, preserving netcode invariants to successfully deliver a multiplayer project might benefit from a little of that disposition.
Re:The best thing that has ever happened for multiplayer games by gafferongames on Monday June 29, 2026 @06:03PM (#48725897)
> this whole post just felt like a brag

And yet, everything I wrote in the article is true.