Google Game Servers Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Google admits Spotify pays no Play Store fees because of a secret deal

  Take a look at my post further up. I think something similar was done for Niantic, and I wouldn't be surprised if some of these publishers also have sweetheart Play deals: https://cloud.google.com/solutions/games. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• It's been a while since stadia's death, but that called my attention.

  For those who don't know what I am talking about, go to https://cloud.google.com/solutions/games and check the partners. Something very interesting on that list. What do you guys think is going on behind the curtains? Source: about 1 year ago

• I'm monitoring network traffic of my Playstation and noticed increased numbers of p2p-hosted games instead of dedicated 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... Source: almost 2 years ago

• Konami has added more servers with the latest maintenance; there are new servers in South America & the United States

  I am seeing new server locations for online play, all of them are run by Google, which provides dedicated server services for video games. The new locations I am seeing are:. Source: almost 2 years ago

• An experiment to show that eFootball uses dedicated servers. It seems that they now added servers in Sao Paulo, Brazil

  My tests show that PES 2021 connects to the opponent's IP address directly, which is an evidence that matches are "player-hosted". That evidence is gone in eFootball, and now you have absolutely no evidence to support that eFootball is still running on "player-hosted" (p2p) model. It does not make any sense for Konami to pay Google for servers if it's not to use their Game Servers service. Source: almost 2 years ago

• An experiment to show that eFootball uses dedicated servers. It seems that they now added servers in Sao Paulo, Brazil

  eFootball directs traffic to Google Cloud servers, which offers Game Servers services to developers. The only logical conclusion is that Konami paid for the servers to work as dedicated servers for eFootball. Source: almost 2 years ago