"Cloud servers are terrible choice for MMOs, you cannot achieve the same performance you would have from having your own server.
Clouds weren’t built to handle the insane amount of traffic in MMOs and in case you haven’t noticed people have been complaining that blizzard servers have only deteriorated and got worse over the years as a result."
-This is all I had to read to know you don’t know what your talking about. A data center owned by blizzard and a data center owned by Amazon are the same exact thing. “Cloud servers” are literally just normal servers, only they are off site and they require an internet connection to access. In the case of MMO’s there are some things that happen client side. but the majority of things happen server side and they require a connection to the server over the internet to play. Literally every MMO in existence is “cloud based” because you are connecting to servers in a data center. The fact that you think the servers in a AWS data center are just some how magically built worse then servers in blizzard owned data centers tells me you shouldnt be sharing your opinion on the internet.
“Excuses and more excuses, nost/elysium/northdale all held 15k players hosted from a russian basement running smooth and problem free,
but blizzards poop servers can’t handle more than 3k players online at a time.”
Not much to say here besides every sentence in this quote is factually inaccurate.
- No Private server ever held 15k concurrent players
- Privates servers were not hosted in a Russian basement, they were hosted by European server providers. AKA the European version of Amazon Web services. This is how blizzard was able to get the servers taken down, they were able to threaten to sue the server providers.
-Private servers did not run problem free, there were numerous issues. And dynamic spawning of resources didn’t fix the problem of entire zones being unplayable due to the increased population.
“One day I hope people like you wake up to this scum company that only wants your money instead of defending it like you have stockholm syndrome.”
One day I hope people like you educate yourself before speaking. If you want to prove me wrong though, please post a server build that would be capable of doing what you are wanting blizzard to do. If you can post me a full spec sheet, I will retract everything I have just said about you.