The best thing that has ever happened for multiplayer games

faize•about 2 hours ago

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

Tepix•about 1 hour ago

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.

jader201•about 2 hours ago

> 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?

stephc_int13•about 1 hour ago

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.

reitzensteinm•about 1 hour ago

If anything, in immature engineering organizations, preserving netcode invariants to successfully deliver a multiplayer project might benefit from a little of that disposition.

elashri•34 minutes ago

I have no knowledge in the field. But it would be nice if the article compared the raw prices of usual bare metal offering vs cloud because I am not sure it would support the claim that the egress would be the highest cost.

Of course it could be but a quantitative perspective for an average game would have been much better.

nickandbro•about 1 hour ago

I operate a game:

https://slitherworld.com

When I started developing it, I wanted to use AWS game lift. But the costs proved I would be paying $1000s of dollars per month to meet the user demand. This makes me seriously reconsider.

yellow_lead•about 2 hours ago

> Having completed all of this, I decided to leave. I had achieved all I wanted to and needed to work on something new. And frankly, I just really disliked working with Richard Baker.

Kind of a weird thing to drop in unless it's an inside joke? (:

jrm4•about 2 hours ago

If it involves Amazon today, it is overwhelmingly unlikely to be the best thing that has ever happened for anyone.

tayo42•about 1 hour ago

Ai probably didn't contribute to writing this, i think the article has that going for it lol

jurgenburgen•about 2 hours ago

Cool.

What about the rest of us who don’t play games or write them? When will AWS stop printing money with egress fees?

beastman82•about 1 hour ago

When you leave for the competition

jayd16•about 2 hours ago

Host on that instance type, maybe?

vlovich123•about 2 hours ago

When Cloudflare breaks them?

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