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Bungie explains why Destiny 2 doesn't have dedicated servers

Velcro Fly

Member
Well they know they can get away with it so where is the motivation to change? People are going to buy (and enjoy) Destiny 2 regardless.
 

spectator

Member
Again, I would have loved to see 60fps / dedicated servers and what not, but the demand is just not big enough for them to justify that investment for this game.

Excuse me?! This is one of the most anticipated sequels ever, following a massive-selling original game. If there isn't enough demand for this game, there isn't enough demand for any game.
 

Mikey Jr.

Member
These fuckers are making money hand over fist.

Destiny 2 could possibly be even bigger than this years COD.

They really need to start not being cheap skates.
 

Head.spawn

Junior Member
IGN: "RIP the dream. Why?"

*long pause of silence*

Luke Smith: "It's just not an investment that we made for Destiny 2, like the uh... I understand there's certainly a desire for it.

Could've just stopped the quote right there, he immediately diverts to something completely unrelated to the question, lol.

They got a bit weird/sketchy as well in the PCGAMER interview when they brought up lag/tick-rate, just dancing all around.
 

singhr1

Member
Pretty pathetic, considering how much money they had to be raking in on overpriced cash shop cosmetics. You would think they would invest in dedi servers to show the pvp dudes who have been keeping D1 alive on twitch some love. Disappointing, but you have to remember Bungie have been saying for years that PvP is casual focused, no matter how much the community begs them to balance otherwise.

It is. Especially since Activision Blizzard has servers.

Balance is a separate issue from connectivity though. Like even competitive games have casual players like OW and Rocket League.

Deliver on a consistently positive experience and people will come back to your game.
 

BiGBoSSMk23

A company being excited for their new game is a huge slap in the face to all the fans that liked their old games.
You should be happy Bungie even made a game for you lower lifeforms to enjoy.

We laugh about it, but there are people even here who dismiss these criticisms as "bitchings of a vocal minority" and pat Bungievision on the back because "everyone else loved D1" and thus we should accept our overlords' decisions.
 

Mesoian

Member
EXACTLY! Are they evil for doing that? NO, people need to stop trying to shape the game to something it won't ever be. The sooner they understand that, the faster they'll be playing a game tailored to their needs.

Pretty pathetic, considering how much money they had to be raking in on overpriced cash shop cosmetics. You would think they would invest in dedi servers to show the pvp dudes who have been keeping D1 alive on twitch some love. Disappointing, but you have to remember Bungie have been saying for years that PvP is casual focused, no matter how much the community begs them to balance otherwise.

I keep rereading these two responses over and over and I can't help but interpret them as "it's fine that Bungie is treating PvP as an unimportant extra because it's fanbase doesn't really care about PvP".

Which is sort of blowing my mind.
 

Apeboy

Member
WE're gonna like change the, we're going to change a bunch of parameters to focus on giving people a better network experience."

We're gonna change things! We're gonna change things like parameters and stuff! It's gonna be yuge I tell you! I know all kinds of parameters, some of my best friends are parameters!

Why can't he just say they made that decision, take the good and the bad with it and move on. Bungie is the worlds worst when it comes to stuff like this. They work harder trying to bullshit their way through or around things than just owning up to their decisions good or bad and moving on.
 

deleted

Member
They didn't even had a PR answer ready for that...

I can see dedicated servers coming with a paid expansion focusing on PvP. It's Activision after all.
 
Then you can, uh, like, uh, I guess wave good fucking bye to any chance of D2 being remotely competitive.
Have you played at all? It's a game based on supers and rng loot drops that enhance your abilities. Look at the hoops "sweaty" pvp players jump through to get the game remotely, somewhat competitive on an equal playing ground. Gear sets banned, sub classes, perks, exotics banned. It's laughable.. You're fighting the devs trying to make the game competitive.

I put hundreds of hours into D1, will prob fo the same with D2. But for competitive PvP I'd look elsewhere, or look forward to frustration and disappointment.

Also lol @ redbar superheroes, so true.
 

wolgoen

Member
Guys they can't afford dedicated servers, it's that simple.

The directors need new yachts, new luxury apartments and new cars. There's just not enough room in the budget for servers. Besides, 60fps is already out of the question as the amount of man hours consumed in achieving this is already allocated for private jet flights, golf days and other activities like casino spending money.

Sorry, it cannot be done, what you're asking for is just unrealistic.

Sincerely,
The Devs.

PS - Preorder now!
 

SpokkX

Member
Because $$$

Yeah D2 seems like a full blown expansion in every single way. I wonder if it is even using the same engine?
 

Mesoian

Member
Guys they can't afford dedicated servers, it's that simple.

The directors need new yachts, new luxury apartments and new cars. There's just not enough room in the budget for servers. Besides, 60fps is already out of the question as the amount of man hours consumed in achieving this is already allocated for private jet flights, golf days and other activities like casino spending money.

Sorry, it cannot be done, what you're asking for is just unrealistic.

Sincerely,
The Devs.

PS - Preorder now!

Replace devs with publishers and you're spot on.
 

nowai

Member
I am a huge Destiny fan and will of course be playing D2 day 1, but this very disappointing news. I assume it's more of a money thing from Activision than a Bungie "backend systems" situation, but it still sucks.

The lag problem with Destiny is two fold. It's part Bungie/Activision's fault and it's part our fault. As long as we keep forming fireteams with people across the world, there will ALWAYS be latency. You can be playing with and against people all from the same region and have one person across the ocean and the experience will be poor. Even if that person has the best internet possible, you will have latency as a result of the distance.

The reduced player count WILL make a difference, but without numbers, we don't know yet. Currently, in a full 6v6 game you need a minimum 1Mb/s upload connection. This is easy to achieve in theory, but in practice many people do not.

Bungie needs regional dedicated servers and not allow cross region fireteams. You should be able to join a queue with cross-region play like many other games allow, but then you acknowledge there will be lag and latency.

Hopefully on PC, most people will be using a dedicated ethernet cable and no wifi like most people use on consoles, so I have hopes the performance will be better.
 

Sinatar

Official GAF Bottom Feeder
Quakeworld. 1996. Dedicated servers become the standard for online multiplayer shooters.

Destiny 2. 2017. lol.

What's even funnier is they could rent servers to the community, not have to pay anything to maintain them and *make money* from the rental fees. What a joke.
 

Kintaro

Worships the porcelain goddess
The devil is in the details and the little details coming out for this game make it sound like a skip for me. I am not a huge FPS guy to begin with but was hoping to get into this with friends.

Just so many games.
 

N7.Angel

Member
translation "We made a lot of money anyway, so why spend some of it when we are going to make a lot more money anyway...our numbers show that spending money to run dedicated servers will not increase the number of people buying the game"

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MrTroubleMaker

Gold Member
Guys they can't afford dedicated servers, it's that simple.

The directors need new yachts, new luxury apartments and new cars. There's just not enough room in the budget for servers. Besides, 60fps is already out of the question as the amount of man hours consumed in achieving this is already allocated for private jet flights, golf days and other activities like casino spending money.

Sorry, it cannot be done, what you're asking for is just unrealistic.

Sincerely,
The Devs.

PS - Preorder now!
lol, nice!
 

Gator86

Member
Have you played at all? It's a game based on supers and rng loot drops that enhance your abilities. Look at the hoops "sweaty" pvp players jump through to get the game remotely, somewhat competitive on an equal playing ground. Gear sets banned, sub classes, perks, exotics banned. It's laughable.. You're fighting the devs trying to make the game competitive.

I put hundreds of hours into D1, will prob fo the same with D2. But for competitive PvP I'd look elsewhere, or look forward to frustration and disappointment.

Also lol @ redbar superheroes, so true.

Agreed. Crucible is basically Mario Kart - the shooter. I played it a lot when it first came out, but goddamn I hated it by the time the first couple DLCs came out. I'm already dreading being forced into it to finish SP quest-lines.
 

Zasa

Member
No dedicated servers, nor is it at 30 FPS on consoles, lmfao. This is one of the most expensive games to develop of all time & in 2017 it can't even get one of those two.

Uhhhh
 
Overwatch
Titanfall
Doom
Halo
CoD?

As a sidenote, Titanfall's dedicated servers on PC feel worse than most p2p games. Doom isn't much better. No clue how these companies have managed this.

I think that it's a pretty poor showing on Bungie that they don't have dedicated servers for PvP. I'd at least to be able to have a decent tickrate in this game. That said, I don't think Smith's answer was particularly egregious. He could have said, "Who knows? We might have them or not. It really just depends on some variables." Or any other version of a real non-answer.
 

mcrommert

Banned
So you'll attack any little thing about what 343 do with Halo, and yet defend this.

Huh.

I'm glad someone else has noticed this

Disgusting

Luke Smith needs to stay behind the scenes and stop giving interviews. He is just terrible at it.


Seriously PR exists for a reason...let them do their job...come up with actual believable reasons why your screwing over your community

Microsoft and Bungie were meant for each other...neither have any idea how to manage a message
 

Raide

Member
Luke Smith needs to stay behind the scenes and stop giving interviews. He is just terrible at it.

Destiny 1 proved that. He loves his games and is passionate about what he does but his PR ability is on par with people in Politics. He sometimes says things that just trigger people, without really knowing why.
 

Zakalwe

Banned
Before everythin shits a brick about this...

The co-op stuff is fine in D1, connection problems happen as they do with any MMO type game but you're almost certainly not going to be affected by them often.

So it's only really pvp that's potentially badly affected by this.

And until we see their p2p solution we can't tell. They mention it will be based around connection quality to an extent, etc... it could be fine.

Of course, it's bullshit that a company their size didn't' spring for dedicated servers, and I get protests against this kind of practise, but the game could play well enough for it not to be a huge concern.

D1 pvp was a shit-show, and Bungie are notorious BSers when it comes to stuff like this, so I guess we'll see...
 
I'm amazed there is still so much Halo/Destiny fanboy drama floating around the internet. They are two separate series. If 343 decides to change some aspects of the long-running Halo series, people might get upset whereas if Call of Duty made those exact changes people might not care. I'm confused by why this is a difficult concept to grasp.
 
I honestly can't see how anyone can defend this decision. Its bullshit and we all know it. Love when these publishers reach unparalleled success with a new IP, just to get chincy with a better working game in the sequel. Like if you are going to invest heavily on a sequel do it right.
 

RdN

Member
They simply don't want the costs.. Even though it will definitely mean a lesser experience to players.
Fucking pathetic.

For me, it means I won't come anywhere near PvP.

It's 2017 and I refuse to deal with lag.
 

nowai

Member
This is the only part that matters. When will people learn...

So true. These posters are the actual reason they aren't doing dedicated servers. If a company can spend less money to get your money, why wouldn't they?

It's still a better shooter than any other game out for me personally.

I have tried all the big new games, Overwatch, Titanfall 2, CoD etc etc and they just don't do it for me. Destiny still feels the absolute best to play and it's gunplay is second to none. I play a lot of games with pals and every time I try and play OW for example, I just don't have fun. I wish a company would make a game that felt as good as Destiny with dedicated servers, but right now that's not a reality, so I have to deal. Yep, I'm supporting the beast, but I'm also not about to say "BOYCOTT" ..and then be one of those people who end up playing anyway.

I live in downtown Seattle and I have gigabit Internet, so my Destiny experience has been 90% positive. I have experienced the lag on occasion, but when the game's P2P system is working, Destiny feels very crispy and shots feel great.

Having said that, it's fucked up that I have to deal with P2P when I used to play Quake 20 years ago and I would never join a server with more than 100ms ping.
 
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