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The general meaning of "server" as it relates to the world of gaming is; an instance of the application that more than one person can exist within at the same t
by theelous3 5y ago
The general meaning of "server" as it relates to the world of gaming is; an instance of the application that more than one person can exist within at the same time.
It doesn't matter how temporally limited it is, it doesn't matter if it's on dedicated hardware or not, or how many "servers" are sharing that hardware. It doesn't even have to be on a different machine.
> Typically that list of servers in online games was actually a list of different physical locations you could connect to.
And? If you saw me hosting two cs lobbies from the same box, would you stop calling them servers?
- MereInterest 5y agoThe key was that it didn't matter which hardware was hosting the game. You connect to that server, which may be from similar locations, or may be hosted by the community. Calling it as a "server" had the implication that it wasn't necessarily the game publisher that was running the server.
- fragmede 5y agoYes but did we stop calling them servers when publishers stopped letting us run our own; accessible outside of their matchmaking process?