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They're still not the same service. Matchmaking is about grouping people together for the game, presumably dependent on their geographical location (for latency
by MaxBarraclough 7y ago
They're still not the same service. Matchmaking is about grouping people together for the game, presumably dependent on their geographical location (for latency) and their skill-level (to balance the game), etc. Dedicated game servers, on the other hand, host the actual multiplayer session.
It's similar to the distinction Netflix uses between their control plane (hosted on AWS) and their content-delivery (hosted on their 'Open Connect' CDN).
- tsukurimashou 7y agoOh I agree on the terminology, and I think it's a shame things are how they are (no more active community on games like we see with 2000s games). I was just pointing out that it was so common these days that people mean "game servers" when they say "matchmaking".