Kind of a weird thing to drop in unless it's an inside joke? (:
What about the rest of us who don’t play games or write them? When will AWS stop printing money with egress fees?
Also, this whole post just felt like a brag, i'm not surprised it barely got any upvotes
Yeah, opening with:
> I'm a world expert in game netcode
Felt like an odd way to start the article.
Maybe OP is job farming?
But from the few interactions I had with him I would say he is quite abrasive, stubborn and probably somewhat on the spectrum.
But there is a special kind of unpleasantness in writing/debugging netcode for large projects, I don't think you can be agreeable and still you your job correctly.
Also I‘m not convinced about the whole cost issue. A nice server from a bare metal provider like OVH will be so much cheaper than the AWS equivalent, you can pay for a ton of traffic.
When I started developing it, I wanted to use AWS game lift. But the costs proved I would be paying $1000s of dollars per month to meet the user demand. This makes me seriously reconsider.
Of course it could be but a quantitative perspective for an average game would have been much better.
jrm4•1h ago