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Some people decided to spend their christmas gaming with other people. That is a valid wish and an enjoyable group activity. And they were obviously "ruined".
by Argorak 12y ago
Some people decided to spend their christmas gaming with other people. That is a valid wish and an enjoyable group activity. And they were obviously "ruined".
How would you feel if you went to an amusement park with your family and found it is closed, because a group of kids spent the night destroying things?
- acheron 12y agoWhy would anyone be able to prevent someone from connecting to another machine to play a game? Oh, because they use centralized servers. Well, don't do that. Live by the cloud, die by the cloud.
- Argorak 12y agoYou, my friend, are one of the reasons why we programmers have such a bad reputation with "normal" people. Because first, we build those things and then we shame them for using them and having expectations.
- dsl 12y ago"Clouds" are centralized servers, they are just ran by someone else. Previous outages have shown that a number of Xbox Live services like matchmaking and chat have been moved onto their Azure cloud.