I'm monitoring network traffic of my Playstation and noticed increased numbers of p2p-hosted games instead of dedicated servers

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Google Game Servers

On PC, less than 5% of my matches are P2P connections. Google Cloud Game Servers can handle high amount of traffic; it is Google for God's sake! Google & Amazon host a lot of games. The only logical reason that would make the game switch to a player-hosted match should be because you & your opponent are closer to each other than the nearest server, but that's not always the case from the matches I see on PC. I am in South Carolina USA, and got connected to a user in Mexico although there are servers all over the United States.

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Amazon GameLift

On PC, less than 5% of my matches are P2P connections. Google Cloud Game Servers can handle high amount of traffic; it is Google for God's sake! Google & Amazon host a lot of games. The only logical reason that would make the game switch to a player-hosted match should be because you & your opponent are closer to each other than the nearest server, but that's not always the case from the matches I see on PC. I am in South Carolina USA, and got connected to a user in Mexico although there are servers all over the United States.

#Game Engine #Game Development #3D Game Engine 13 social mentions