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Sony’s Concord Is Playable Again Thanks To Fan-Made Custom Servers (thegamepost.com)
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It's early stages and buggy, but it's on its way. All games, even bland, boring, or bad ones, deserve to remain playable.

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[–] 81 points 9 months ago (5 children)

If Sony sees this, they'll misread it as interest, release it again, and it'll flop again. It's what's known as a Morbious.

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  • [–] [S] 36 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    The correct lesson to take away from it, that they won't ever do, is to release multiplayer games in a way where they can live on without constant updates or a central server.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    I’m not sure that’s possible with multiplayer games, at least the central server part. They could release the central server code as an open source project… that would be very useful. But MMOs need that central communication to even work. I mean I guess you could engineer some sort of peer to peer but I’ve dealt with weird firewall rules in various DCs I’ve had servers located in or god forbid the lack of incoming connectivity in peoples homes. Outbound traffic is usually fairly unrestricted so a publicly available server is the way to go architecturally.

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