Ubisoft had their goose that could lay golden eggs with this game; 300,000+ beta testers before release! Unprecedented hype and popularity! Players who love the core game so much that EVEN WITH the utterly terrible P2P system shockingly still persevere through it and play it anyway! EVEN WITH terrible over-the-top unbalanced microtransactions giving tremendously unfair advantages to players simply for shelling out more money, they STILL persevere!
And yet, even with all that, even with having the BEST SELLING GAME OF FEBRUARY 2017, they decided to stick with P2P still? Are you guys NUTS? This game has (maybe "had" at this point, but hey) the potential to be THE NEXT BIG THING in E-Sports! This has (or, again, maybe "had") the potential to be the kind of game you tune in on Twitch and see with ESPN-like announcers talking about in front of a giant stadium with 4 korean looking players with giant headphones on one side and 4 european looking gamers with their custom gaming rigs and red-backlit keyboards on the other side, with giant "Red Bull" and "Mountain Dew" flags hanging down with a gigantic IMAX-size display for the crowd to spectate the game on... and they stick with P2P?
P2P. Is. Suicide.
Seriously, the lag, the timeouts, the disconnects, the failure to join, that's just the tip of the iceberg. I've seen fair share of videos already with players abusing it to the point of teleporting around behind players, and on the PC version of the game at least players are apparently already DDOS'ing or forcefully disconnecting users from their games in order to "win by default" so they can maintain high rankings, it's just absolutely absurd.
There is no way, and will NEVER be any way, to enforce any sort of proper safe environment using P2P, there is no way to prevent DDOS with it, there is no fully accurate way to detect cheating with it, because there is no central computer to be REFEREE; this is like back-yard wrestling with your neighbor compared to sanctioned boxing matches, there is simply no debate, supposedly Ubisoft says they will consider dedicated servers "when the cons outweigh the pros" with P2P... so let's go over it:
P2P
Pros: Ubisoft doesn't spend money and acts cheap for no good reason
Cons:
DDOS
intentional disconnects
teleporting players
failure to join game
random disconnects
no way to detect or prevent cheating
long game session resynchronization every time a player leaves game
player base shrivels up and dies
nobody buys the game
game gets poor reviews because of it
Dedicated Servers:
Pros:
players join and leave games seamlessly without the game ever having to pause
anti-cheating easy to detect and enforce
player teleporting prevented
DDOS attacks impossible because nobody can get your IP
intentional disconnects impossible
game gets better reviews
more players buy the game
SUPER IMPORTANT ONE --> Ubisoft makes more money that easily surpasses the money spent on making dedicated servers
player base grows
people love the game so much they actually don't mind paying for the microtransactions, Ubisoft makes even MORE money
Cons: Ubisoft has to spend money to get servers up and running initially
I played the open Beta, which to me was great because it got to give the majority of those 300,000 users who MIGHT HAVE ALL BOUGHT THE GAME (if the networking didn't SUCK SO HARD) a preview to see whether or not they should spend any money on this.
I didn't.
In it's current state, I will not buy this game for more than $10, because that is all it is worth as a lousy P2P title with easy cheats, exploits, lag, disconnects and other frustration... hell, with such buggy networking I probably still wouldn't even play it for very long even if it were free; I was yelling at the top of my lungs in frustration at the OPEN BETA, and THAT WAS FREE! FREE! I WAS YELLING AT HOW BAD IT WAS AT A FREEEEEE GAME! That is BAD! That is EPIC MAXIMUM LEVEL BAD BEYOND POWER LEVEL 9000 BAD! It does NOT GET MORE BAD than that!
IF this game had dedicated servers as it ABSOLUTELY REQUIRES, I would shell out $60 and buy a copy RIGHT NOW. As would probably HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of other users who are holding back if they have half a brain after having seen what a joke the networking code was in the open beta!
So think about it... either stick by your stubborn cheap *** guns and don't make 1 more penny on this epic failure to launch... or do the right thing, and maybe you can actually turn a profit.
The choice is yours Ubisoft.
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