NA and EU data centers confirmed.

[Mijin]

Probably because Cloud computing is trendy nowadays. And some don't seem to realize how much processing lag sync'ing servers would add to their laggy gameplay experience compared to the current, simple, latency lag.

My understanding of cloud computing related to gaming is instead of having a your own server farm for your game you buy server space from a ton of random hosts. It's usually used for games with low subs, and the benefit is that you get one gigantic world instead of unique instances of the game on separate dedicated servers. The trade off is instead of lagging when a bunch of people are gathered in one spot you just lag all the time lol.

Unless my understanding is totally wrong there is no way this could be what Yhosida was talking about. For one you would have to totally reword the game from the group up, and you would have to basically just be wasting the servers they already paid for. In addition to that he wouldn't be talking about servers or worlds at all, because we would have just one big world instead.

[PandaTaru]

My understanding of cloud computing related to gaming is instead of having a your own server farm for your game you buy server space from a ton of random hosts. It's usually used for games with low subs, and the benefit is that you get one gigantic world instead of unique instances of the game on separate dedicated servers. The trade off is instead of lagging when a bunch of people are gathered in one spot you just lag all the time lol.

Unless my understanding is totally wrong there is no way this could be what Yhosida was talking about. For one you would have to totally reword the game from the group up, and you would have to basically just be wasting the servers they already paid for. In addition to that he wouldn't be talking about servers or worlds at all, because we would have just one big world instead.

Going burst your bubble but you just gave a good example of somebody who partially read comments -- start to read the first couple of words then make up the end.

I wasn't implying they'll use cloud computing, I was being sarcastic about cloud computing being trendy nowadays and as reason why people start to talk about data centers with little knowledge about what they really are. If you had read what I wrote to the end, you surely would have understood that I was being sarcastic about cloud computing and the sync solution somebody talked about. geez those stuck ups..

[Mijin]

Going burst your bubble but you just gave a good example of somebody who partially read comments -- start to read the first couple of words then make up the end.

I wasn't implying they'll use cloud computing, I was being sarcastic about cloud computing being trendy nowadays and as reason why people start to talk about data centers with little knowledge about what they really are. If you had read what I wrote to the end, you surely would have understood that I was being sarcastic about cloud computing and the sync solution somebody talked about. geez those stuck ups..

I wasn't suggesting that you were implying that they were going to use cloud computing. I understood what you meant, but it seems like misunderstanding is on your end. The way I understood your post was you were saying the reason why so many people may be confused is because cloud computing is becoming popular. I was offering the reason why there is no way cloud computing is the direction SE is going to the potentially confused people, not you.