Payday 3 players endure second consecutive day of server issues, preventing them from playing angielski

Pxtl, rok temu

P2P and player-owned dedicated servers need to come back. This “everything runs on the cloud” stuff is so bad on so many levels.

orca, rok temu

It also means players get rugpulled whenever the suits decide the game is no longer worth maintaining.

Pxtl, rok temu

Exactly. I wonder if it’s possible to make a commercial game that’s fully decentralized. Sell the licenses as NFTs, use activitypub for the masterserver so you just toot out your games, release the game and dedicated server as free binaries. I hate NFTs but they’d be more consumer-rights friendly than the current approach of steam owns everything.

mindbleach, rok temu

Seriously, it’s a four-player game. Not some MMO clusterfuck. Not an arena shooter bragging about 128 codblops on a single map, like it’s Stand On Nuketown. You need matchmaking - you want anticheat - you’ll do some DRM bullshit. Other than that you should want to offload bandwidth and latency to your players. They’re all on the same team!

nottheengineer, rok temu

They had three days of load testing and the infrastructure still failed on launch.

Sounds like the devs knew it wouldn’t work but management insisted on launching anyways.

vsh, rok temu

Meanwhile Larian (BG3 devs) held the newest patch for one additional day to test it out and make sure it works properly. You really see the difference.

simple, rok temu

I mean this is pretty much par for the course for any online game launch. Hey, at least some people will stop buying early access so eagerly.

Serdan, rok temu

“endure” 🫡

GentlemanLoser, rok temu

Remember remember Payday 3 in September

themusicman, rok temu

Earth, wind and fire?

GentlemanLoser, rok temu

Haha, no but that tickles me

Guy Fawkes (the guy the V for Vendetta mask represents) tried to blow up UK parliament in the 1600s. The Brits have a nursery rhyme for it:

“Remember, remember the 5th of November, gunpowder, treason and plot; for there is a reason why gunpowder and treason should ne’er be forgot.”

I was just being silly by implying that living thru Payday 3 server issues are on the same level and get their own version of the rhyme

Serdan, rok temu

You had me doubting my memory for a moment there. I used to know the movie version by heart, but it’s been a hot minute. 😄

Maybe it’s time for a rewatch

GreenMario, rok temu

Yeah Day 1 was completely unplayable for our 4 man group. Like we don’t need matchmaking we’re in a party just roll a server up and go.

Seems fine now since last night, had no issues getting games going.

SnakeRattleNRoll, rok temu

I envy you - was able to play a few matches shortly after release with friends, and havent been able to find a match since.

Solo, with friends, public - doesnt matter, just sits and searches for upwards of 30 minutes before i opt for something else.

GreenMario, rok temu

I went to work but apparently some of my friends are still struggling to get into games so it’s not fixed yet, we just have caught a downtime period I guess.