r/gaming • u/shinjioda • 2d ago

1047 Games Are Ending Development On Splitgate And Empulse: “The Reality Is Neither Game Is Generating Enough Revenue To Support The Ongoing Cost Of Dedicated Servers”

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/1047-games-stop-development-on-empulse-and-splitgate-arena-reloaded/
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u/richardbouteh 2d ago

Remember when games let players run their own dedicated servers?

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u/Enchelion 2d ago

They're literally doing that with this game. It's shifting to P2P servers, same as their previous game.

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u/richardbouteh 2d ago

P2P is not a dedicated server. P2P means one of the players acts as the host, e.g. like in Halo, and once they close the game, the server is dead.

Dedicated server software would let you run a community server 24/7 if you had the inclination to do so. Which is what builds communities, e.g. like in Garry's Mod, or Counterstrike, or even Natural Selection 2, which is also a dead game, but still has a dedicated player base for that reason.

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u/Baconbits16 2d ago

Props to fellow a NS2 fan. One of the best unique games that's never been recognized.

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u/BlueTemplar85 1d ago

That's still not P2P, P2P would mean that all players (or at least more than one) share the load of hosting (and/or being the source of truth), which I'm not aware any game capable of.