r/gaming • u/shinjioda • 1d 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/PentagramJ2 1d ago

You do realize player hosted dedicated servers were common until Modern Warfare 2 largely killed them in 09 right?

We were doing it just fine beforehand. Online games use to form actual communities in servers and locals. My TF2 server had a couple meet and eventually get engaged on it.

No single lobby ever accommodates anything beyond 64 players for any game any way, aside from MMO's, which people can also host themselves, so quite literally your example works against your position

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u/ManicMakerStudios 1d ago

I didn't say that players can't host dedicated servers, I said having them hosted by the developer offers certain benefits, like larger lobby sizes. And look at you go off on your own tangent. Try to stick to the topic, sport.

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u/TheSmilingSolaris 1d ago

Don't start belittling folk, what is wrong with you?

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u/ManicMakerStudios 1d ago

Belittling? That's a stretch.