Titanfall dev explains why it's using Xbox Live Cloud

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Respawn engineer Jon Shiring has posted a lengthy article explaining how Titanfall will benefit from using Microsoft's Xbox Live Cloud servers, contrasting the experiences found using player-hosted online games – featured in many console games today – versus expensive dedicated servers.

Speaking with both Microsoft and Sony to find an inexpensive way to have "potentially hundreds-of-thousands of dedicated servers," Respawn found a solution with Microsoft's Azure servers. "The Xbox group came back to us with a way for us to run all of these Titanfall dedicated servers and that lets us push games with more server CPU and higher bandwidth, which lets us have a bigger world, more physics, lots of AI, and potentially a lot more than that," he wrote.

"With the Xbox Live Cloud, we don't have to worry about estimating how many servers we'll need on launch day. We don't have to find ISPs all over the globe and rent servers from each one. We don't have to maintain the servers or copy new builds to every server," explained Shiring. "That lets us focus on things that make our game more fun. And best yet, Microsoft has datacenters all over the world, so everyone playing our game should have a consistent, low latency connection to their local datacenter."

Recent changes to Xbox One's digital rights management plans aside, the company is going ahead with a $700 million expansion of its Iowa data center, which will be used to support Xbox Live and other services. To read all the technical and business reasons Respawn is going with Microsoft's Azure system, head on over to the company site.

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Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2013/06/24/titanfall-dev-explains-why-its-using-xbox-live-cloud/

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WokzePosted:

ShadowBoltDashie
ExoticWolfs I haven't seen any game play of this but it sounds really cool! I am going to watch something of it. This games gonna be beast! :)


I was really impressed with this game when I watched the gameplay of it. I am looking forward to this game.


gonna have to agree with you, the gameplay looked amazing, cant wait!

WokzePosted:

cant wait for this game, looks great!

CuhPosted:

ShadowBoltDashie
ExoticWolfs I haven't seen any game play of this but it sounds really cool! I am going to watch something of it. This games gonna be beast! :)


I was really impressed with this game when I watched the gameplay of it. I am looking forward to this game.


i agree with you i cannot wait to get my hands on a copy of this game :)

TaigaAisakaPosted:

ExoticWolfs I haven't seen any game play of this but it sounds really cool! I am going to watch something of it. This games gonna be beast! :)


I was really impressed with this game when I watched the gameplay of it. I am looking forward to this game.

GossipPosted:

I might buy this! Looks pretty cool

KatsumiPosted:

Hopefully this will help improve the multiplayer experience in titan fall. I myself am looking forward to this game

Snowfl4k3zPosted:

Hopefully it's whichever one that gives users a better connection...

slapshot101Posted:

This game looks beast, I think the cloud will be a huge progress towards making this game spectacular, and I can't wzait to see what other games will be doing with the cloud.

IlIuminatiPosted:

Woobie This game is going to be amazing, I cannot wait!


Its awesome. The cloud just makes it the best :D

OasisPosted:

ExoticWolfs I haven't seen any game play of this but it sounds really cool! I am going to watch something of it. This games gonna be beast! :)


Go do it, it will impress you.