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Pirates ask EU Commission to look into killing of video games (www.patrick-breyer.de)
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[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I don’t see why developers can’t just make a game that works with or without the internet. There’s no reason a game can’t just connect to another copy of the game and communicate console to console. If there’s a reason beyond greed that this can’t happen please enlighten me.

[–] Tibi@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 7 months ago

Peer2peer connections are very difficult. Mainly because clients are behind a NAT which allows only connections from inside to outside. So when a client wants to connect to another client one connection comes from outside and is blocked. There is a "bug" called NAT holepunching to still connect but that's not a trivial task and doesn't work on all setups. I recently tried out webRTC for a multiplayer game but I still don't know what to do with people where that connection can't be established. SteamAPI has a P2P feature as well, and when they can't establish a p2p connection they just silently route the packets over their servers.