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by singpolyma3 10 days ago
> But the server binary doesn't start unless you have 190GiB of RAM and 38 available CPUs.

This doesn't seem like much of an obstacle? Can buy or rent such without too much trouble.
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john_strinlai 10 days ago
>Can buy or rent such without too much trouble.

for... thousands of dollars a month.

the goal of the regulation is that regular people can keep playing their games. not just rich people.

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singpolyma3 9 days ago
Only one group needs to do it for everyone to keep playing. Everyone running their own server isn't very interesting for multiplayer... Usually you'd do it in groups.
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nearbuy 9 days ago
Most of the time, no group of players will run a server at that cost. So regular players still can't play.

It's not unheard of though. WoW and City of Heroes had/have large, expensive fan servers. But realistically, this legislation would save maybe 0-2% of games in the thousands-per-month cost range. According to the parent commenter, we might lose many more than that from the legislation causing studios to decide not to make them to begin with.

Games with cheap servers are a different story.

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