Re:SimCity Burning: A Warning to Publishers on The Dangers o...
by jsnell on Friday March 08, 2013 @02:23PM
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That's a smokescreen, there's no way they are offloading any significant amount of processing to remote servers, compared to the local CPU power. The economics just can't work.
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Re:SimCity Burning: A Warning to Publishers on The Dangers o...
by dromidas on Friday March 08, 2013 @02:55PM
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Indeed. It is definitely not possible that they are offloading a home PC worth of compute power per user on the server side. The idea is just laughable, at least at this stage.
The problem is that EA keeps producing games, and people keep buying them. Until everyone just says screw EA and stops buying any of their games it won't matter.
Re:SimCity Burning: A Warning to Publishers on The Dangers o...
by bentcorner on Friday March 08, 2013 @03:00PM
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Plus, if that was truly the case then the economical thing to do would be to ship a SimCity server so that players could run their own regions at their own cost. It neatly answers some of the "how can I play this in 10 years" questions and yet allows for the supposed benefits of server-side simulation.