@Kunakai The developers DO have to pay an extra fee, it says it right in the article. A free solution would be to allow people to create their own dedicated servers as has been done for generations on the PC. But Microsoft's policy with developers forces them to either use peer-to-peer or to buy their server licenses. If it were on PC, the developers could either make their own servers (far cheaper than anything), use Amazon's powerful and cheap cloud, or just have players create their own servers, like thousands of PC games have. Counter Strike, Team Fortress 2, Battlefield, and even many of the Call of Duty games run on player created dedicated servers.
Or they can just have people create their own dedicated servers like they have been for Counter Strike, Call of Duty 4, Team Fortress 2, Battlefield 2 and almost every PC multiplayer shooter since the beginning of time. But Microsoft doesn't allow that, do they?
@sfreedom21 You sound like the old guy talking about paper books, vinyl records, and VHSs. Steam doesn't require you to be online to play and PS4 will play used games. Download games help small developers grow and reduce tons of physical waste. Besides, no matter how you spend your money, it'll be going to "greedy bastards" anyways. It'd either go to a game developer, or a CD, plastic case, manual printing corporation. I'd rather it go to the developer.
It's the 21st century, if you want to die clinging to old trash, fine. Don't pull us down with you.
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