SC2 and 56k modems

IN TEH PALECE KNOWEN AS alt.games.starcraft, TEH FAGGORTER Luc The
Perverse <ataylor_no_spa_am.TakeThisOut@_letterC_solutions.n3t> DUMPED HIS GHEYE
SHIET ON MY COMPUTAR SCREEN!!!!:
>Man-wai Chang ToDie wrote:
>> Will SC2 care about poor users?
>>
>
>Blizzard would not shoot themselves in the foot by forcing people to
>have high throughput to play the game. While most people (ahem, gamers)
>in the USA have upgraded to higher speed connections, there are still
>many millions of potential customers around the world who can't either
>because of cost or availability.
>
>As always, you will still need a low latency connection to play.

Eh, I'd say the majority of people who are the potential target
audience have at least some form of DSL/Cable. Things change in 10
years, you know - I honestly don't think dial-up users are of much
concern to anyone making multiplayer games in this day and age. If it
works on dial-up, well, good for them, but it should be optimized for
mainstream connections and not the lowest common demeanor - Which, in
this day and age, means either low-end DSL or Cable.

Basically the only real reason to stick with dial-up these days is if
you're living so out in the boonies that it is your only option due to
technical constraints.
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> Basically the only real reason to stick with dial-up these days is if
> you're living so out in the boonies that it is your only option due to
> technical constraints.

How about defining the number of players when hosting a game?

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IN TEH PALECE KNOWEN AS alt.games.starcraft, TEH FAGGORTER Man-wai
Chang ToDie <toylet.toylet.RemoveThis@gmail.com> DUMPED HIS GHEYE SHIET ON MY
COMPUTAR SCREEN!!!!:
>> Basically the only real reason to stick with dial-up these days is if
>> you're living so out in the boonies that it is your only option due to
>> technical constraints.
>
>How about defining the number of players when hosting a game?

You can do that in SC already?

All I am saying is that if you're optimizing the game for dial-up
performance you're taking something away from everyone who's not
limited to dial-up, due to the Peer-to-peer architecture of SC
multiplayer (as opposed to a client-server one like in Quake and
virtually every other FPS).

And unlike in 1998, that would be the vast, vast majority of the
player base - So it'd be a retarded decision to make.
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