Comment by xboxnolifes
10 hours ago
This seems to get brought up in every hn post on video game mulriplayer, and it makes me wonder: do you play video games? I dont know of any video games that do multiplayer that way, and i would think that alone suggests its not a good idea.
Who wants to play a game with 50ms+ keypress to screen update delay? Sounds miserable.
It makes me laugh whenever there's a post about anticheat on the frontpage and without missing a beat there's always a comment there - "why don't they just run the entire game logic server side and stream the updates to the client??? are they stupid?"
I don't play it much anymore, but I used to be a heavy player: the latency isn't 50 ms on GeForce Now (with a French connection, which is pretty good).
GeForce Now has the advantage of being able to pick a server closest to specifically you. If you're near a major datacenter, you're probably getting sub 20ms delay. Annoying, but playable for many games. That is not the case as soon as you try multiplayer with people in different metro areas.
yea thats barely playable for single player games