Will Uber offer paid PA servers?

EdWood · September 25, 2013

Thx for the video SSX, I totally missed out on that one.

So, Jon and Chris were at the same table during PAX2013? Cannot wait to watch this whole video!

Thx!

shotogun · September 25, 2013

SXX said: ↑

kosmosprime said: ↑

That means even more servers to set up (I think we had a misunderstanding there, a server is the thing which stands in your room, and the virtual instance is what runs on at least one of them).
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As long as we know Uber don't use dedicated servers at all, even for this forum. So my terminilogy is this:

Virtual instance == VPS, virtual server on Amazon EC2 or SoftLayer.

Game server == One PA game server which only run one battle per time (that might be wrong).

kosmosprime said: ↑

First that's true for the not so good servers (< 8GB RAM, small bandwidth), however being a major customer doesn't make them cheaper.
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Being major customer always make rent of any servers cheaper, sometimes price is lower in two times.

kosmosprime said: ↑

Second they have to pay for setting up one or for having one. And if it is idle it just uses less power. In the case of having to set them up, which is more likely, they would still have to pay all of them.
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First they don't need to pay for setup 0f cloud instance, they only pay hourly of for CPU/MEM usage.

Then they don't need to pay for idle because when there is no games servers required instance are off and only enabled on demand.

kosmosprime said: ↑

Again, this results in even more servers (and virtual instances) to be needed, for every battle one. And as there are 40 players this will probably result in about 5-10 instances needed all the time.
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All these 5-10 instances won't cost more than $2000-4000 per month.

kosmosprime said: ↑

You have to use that money for developing and for new games, they once said how expensive that is.
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Let's stay on topic, here we talk about the cost of supporting server backend for multiplayer. If we'll really have lot of 40-players games in PA it's will mean that game is very popular. If game will be very popular it's will easy pay for server side and Uber don't really need to move on new titles.
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I do like the idea of PA getting more popular and continuing to constantly improve it instead of making new titles. Maybe just keep releasing DLC and improving network?

SXX · September 25, 2013

shotogun said: ↑

I do like the idea of PA getting more popular and continuing to constantly improve it instead of making new titles. Maybe just keep releasing DLC and improving network?
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I think we need to stay on topic and not starting to discuss what Uber plans is as long as we can ask them about that right here a bit later.

I just want to express my opinion that servers support are not expensive these days. Even now PA already have basic popularity and at release game will have minimum 60,000 people in, so I doubt Uber will ask anybody to pay for game hosting.

Will Uber offer paid PA servers?

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