Naughty Dog’s confirmed that Uncharted 3′s multiplayer won’t be hosted with dedicated servers, instead the company has once more opted to use a player host-client architecture so the game could stay running for over “four years” if they so choose.
That’s according to a representative speaking on twitter, adding dedicated server costs could really add up overtime.
“We’re not going to have dedicated servers, [we] made that decision long time ago [and] we built the current player host-client architecture,” said the rep.
“[The] decision for that server architecture was to be better able to support our fans long-term if we can [and] want.”
“The cost delta [between] dedicated & non-dedicated [servers] is huge long term. Eventually someone will say it costs too [much and] shut them down.
My personal hope is that by keeping costs down [and with] strong enough community, we could be in a position to consider [four or more years] of uptime.”
Uncharted 3 which is currently in open multiplayer beta, and will release exclusively on PS3 November 1st.
come on for crying out loud if the worlds smallest publisher THQ could foot the bill then surely one of the worlds largest companies can manage!
thats one thing i hate about sony, there so god dam tight ass!
Sony are cheap.
thats understatement of the year!
its stupid, there going all out with the game but wont give us dedicated servers.
pew..pew..pew – Host Migration – pew..pew..pew – Host Migration – Rage Quit – Host Migration. ARRRRRR!
They NEED Dservers.