[chefandy]

For some little indie setup, sure. But AAA studios are like any other software companies— the folks putting their network stack together aren’t the same people that are making the gameplay logic, many of whom probably went to art school and learned how to script and write some less-complex C++, and they’re different from the people working with the low-level graphics programming in the game engine, many of whom probably have PhDs in computer science or other related math disciplines. Having a connection low-latency enough and reliable enough to have fighting game tournaments on servers with many thousands of players isn’t a job for a general purpose game developer.