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[–] kugmo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

are you even allowed to host dedicated servers for console games? i don't think we'll ever get those sadly, they're stuck on offical ps/ms/nintendo/game company hosted servers without a way to spin one up and have users join those (which completely goes against online subscription fees for the consoles).

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They used to have them for some OG xbox games and PS2 games.

[–] kugmo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I mean hosting a game via a server binary you're hosting, not your game console acting as a dedicated server. I believe Mecassault for Xbox had lobbies you would manually join because it was pre-matchmaking and some players would mic check you too.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean hosting a game via a server binary you're hosting, not your game console acting as a dedicated server.

What do you think the game console is doing when you are running a dedicated server on it? 🤨

[–] kugmo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Well only in 8th gen there was dedicated servers, before that I know it was all peer to peer.