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Posted by: GiIIaHouse
On topic, I'll admit I don't know all that much about the details of maintaining dedicated servers, but in my opinion it would fix a lot of things that are wrong with MM right now.
That's not to say that new problems won't arise, but I'd like to see a different approach this time around.
I'm pretty certain they're just tweaking the current system rather than implementing dedicated servers, but I'd like to hear about the pros and cons of dedicated servers vs P2P.
ok, so you don't know much about servers, but you know for a fact that they will solve the problems with matchmaking?
with servers there is still a "host" like advantage for those that are closest to the source. with servers you could potentially have a whole team that has a host like advantage, whereas peer 2 peer only has 1 at any time.
also with servers you could potentially not have enough space causing many people to wait for an open space.
also if a server goes out/crashes everyone in the region can't play.
also... once a games population dies down servers will be taken offline. eventually all of them must be closed down, then that last remnant of dedicated gamers can no longer play (people still play halo 2).
so both have their problems, it's not like servers are superior, it's all a matter of developer choice, bungie already has a pretty good system, developing servers would just detract from time spent on the game itself.