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Stagas, you are correct. Thank you for mentioning this. Node is not to blame here as you say. However MMOs require orchestration and server parallelization ex

• stagas 14y ago
  I have no doubts your system is a very powerful and scalable solution for pubsub, but I believe just the fact that it's not utilizing Websockets, the overhead is not acceptable for MMOs or other latency sensitive tasks. So you shouldn't advertise as such, people might actually believe you and try and build one. It'll blow up in their face when they realize they can't get the latency down to an acceptable level due to the 200-300 extra bytes per request and the delay of constantly opening new connections.
  • Retric 14y ago
    There are a fair number of browser based strategy games such as evony.com where latency is not really an issue. It's mostly a question of how to handle communication between back end servers and 'world' chat that's the real scaling issue.
    • stagas 14y ago
      It should be more than adequate for strategy or turn based games. Perhaps I should have been more clear that I was talking about latency sensitive MMOs, like shooters or anything where your position and movement in time are critical to the gameplay.
  • Evbn 14y ago
    OP is a bombastic ad for pubnub, blowing up in other people's faces isn't their worry.