There are still limitations to this architecture and instances when you have to run something else. If I would be doing an RTS with thousands of units, I'd stil

There are still limitations to this architecture and instances when you have to run something else. If I would be doing an RTS with thousands of units, I'd still prefer the lock-step version described above, for example. Or, for a more concrete example, right now I'm revamping multiplayer architecture for a game with a huge open world — and the only way to get it to work without paying for dedicated server farm is to run a distributed authority key-value storage.