Comments on: Designing Smooth Game Flow in Online Multiplayer Games

By: GameProducer.Net » NAT Problems - And a Big Opportunity For Online Multiplayer Games

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:19:23 +0000

[...] everybody is willing to deal with this problem (even world’s largest gaming companies such as EA might not be willing to make it work 100% [...]

By: chris

chris — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 15:34:46 +0000

this rock my socks

By: Juuso - Game Producer

Juuso - Game Producer — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 06:39:27 +0000

@Funky Monk: I’m sorry but we are not providing online help for BMFE :) Please check their technical support. Hopefully you get into playing.

By: Funky Monk

Funky Monk — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 17:25:44 +0000

i cant play online at all if i select it, it says cannot connect which pisses me off. Can anyone tell me how to fix that?

By: Juuso - Game Producer

Juuso - Game Producer — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:53:19 +0000

@Ville: Please let that IP option there. Make it behind some sub menu, but leave it there. Or make damn sure the master server is 100% online and that *every single player* can connect to it.

@Ken: :)

By: Juuso - Game Producer

Juuso - Game Producer — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:51:18 +0000

@Rick: Thanks for pointing that out. I must admit what I wrote was bit misleading:
- I meant that there would be need for *direct connection* (or way to find players without need to use GameSpy…). I edited the text to make sure this is the case.

It’s true that whether the actual server connection is made P2P or Server-Client has no practical meaning: the point is that players should be able to type direct IP and start gaming without external game listing provider (or that there could be external game finder – like AllSeeingEye – which wouldn’t require gamespy).

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 17:22:53 +0000

Peer-to-Peer connections isn’t about players being able to host a server themselves. P2P stands for individual connections between a player and all other players. The best type of connection that suits multiplayer games the most, would probably be Server-to-Client connections. There is only 1 server and all clients send and receive from that server. This method provides security and stability.

By: Ken Paulson

Ken Paulson — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:39:10 +0000

@Juuso: Well, I never said I liked the idea. :) I understand a company’s desire to discourage piracy, but when it disadvantages the paying customer it’s time for them to take things back a notch. I’ve had to get cracks for far too many freshly purchased games.

By: Ville

Ville — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:15:52 +0000

At least we were planning on purely master server because we don’t want to bother players with technical things like IP numbers, to give precisely that smoother experience. Of course I realized that our players will be rather technical people so we can leave the IP selection there, but I guess the players of BMFE might not be as such.

By: Juuso - Game Producer

Juuso - Game Producer — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:14:12 +0000

@Ken: Yes. That’s possible. Unfortunately now they harm *paying* customers in their measures…