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Having done network game console programming before, I can tell you that dealing with some guy's random NAT was a huge problem. There are scores of people livin
by CountSessine 13y ago
Having done network game console programming before, I can tell you that dealing with some guy's random NAT was a huge problem. There are scores of people living in apartment flats with high-speed internet connections that happened to have everyone in the building behind an extremely obnoxious non-full cone NAT. Having to do NAT traversal with some of the weird building or carrier level NATs is a huge headache and in the long term isn't sustainable.
- jlgreco 13y agoIn PC-space, you have pre-teens managing to run minecraft servers for their friends. My cousin has one; I distinctly remember helping him install batteries into a new toy 3 or 4 years ago during Christmas. Is this somehow a console-exclusive difficulty?
- sliverstorm 13y agoConsoles figure it all out on the fly, on their own. Any kid can open a port in the NAT firewall, but it's more challenging to write software that can consistently do that on every network.
- chc 13y agoIt's more like a very inconsistent difficulty. It will work fine for one person with a specific pile of hardware, then you look at a different person or part of the hardware pile gets replaced and suddenly nothing works.