Quote (SpAz. @ Feb 18 2016 05:09pm)
it came from the idea that it would be totally fucking awesome, playing with americans and asians.
It is entirely possible to be done, you can make [hosted] games automatically choose location to a european one for a europe located player, and vice versa. IDK much about net and programming, but it can be done. Needs server upgrades I am sure but don't tell me its not possible, theres plenty games that has this.
and ofcourse there are also ways to store characters intact after a server modification. I can't imagine it wouldnt be possible, even though I havent the slightest idea about the actual wiring that would be neccesarry.
If you're so clever about it (you may be) - explain us, dumb it down for us, your professional expertise as to why neither would be possible. Instead of just saying "no, wont work". And, important, do it like a professional - that means that youre able to explain your field with sense to someone without any knowledge whatsoever about your field. This is if you wish to contribute to a productive topic, and not just post nonsense. if you can't do that then maybe you arent as competent as you think.
Because I have seen you around and what your post are like. Your avatar isnt a spoof, its totally representable of you as a forumite. Pessimistic posts, without substance, everwhere. id assume you think you're just bringing your "troll on". well... godspeed to you. congratz on your +1 I guess.
When you're done hiring a new legacy games department after the 3 man team quits when you give them this project, significant portions of the game, the backend software and the database itself would all have to be rewritten just to allow a player to change his account name.
Currently the old bnet database on each realm does not have a serial number for each account. The account name is the unique identifier. That's part of what makes double registration possible (which people are still falling for even when its been used since the days of warcraft 3)
D2, sc, wc3 accounts are not currently tied to the cdkey or bnet account. If you added a unique identifier and merged the realms, how would the player change his account name after this happened? With multiples of each account name now present at the same time, there's no way for the login system as it currently exists to know which *igetmadatworrywartbecauseimalwayswrong account the player is trying to access.
Are you going to send out mass emails to the millions of registered accounts and ask them politely to change their account name within 90 days? What about the millions of unregistered accounts?
Ok, let's say you solved the account name problem (lol)
Now you need to bind accounts to the cdkey and by extension the battlenet account to have it work with this lovely new battlenet we have. Ok, fine.
Now you assign that new 3man legacy games team (or perhaps 4 after this job posting) to find a way to combine the character names, deleting all duplicates.
Now you have to find a way to let d2 players know the name they've been using for 10 years is being deleted so that a dclone bot from romania can use it.
Now you have to write a pseudo-matchmaking system to only show games in the online list that are in their "realm"
Now you have to deal with the fact that people who live in other regions only want to play USEAST anyway because that's the only timezone that matters.
And it goes on and on from there, each step creating another problem that has to be fixed.
You're right, this isn't an impossible task. It's just a very stupid one that will cost someone a lot of man-hours and money. Money they won't get back because *spoiler* anyone who is remotely interested in diablo 2 already owns half a dozen cdkeys.
Imagine someone on the board of directors standing up and suggesting that they budget a vast amount of money on updating the backend for a game that hasn't made them money in nearly 10 years and which none of them had any part in making to begin with? A game with so many unfixed bugs that they don't want it to even appear in the store next to d3, hoping that they'll buy d3 instead of playing the other games first.
Quote (Trillasecond @ Feb 19 2016 01:55am)
nn HD spam
shared bandwidth throughout neighborhood? if you say so Derpina
Oh yeah, worldwide comcast sounds like a great idea. After all, it works so well for comcast.
This post was edited by Worrywart on Feb 19 2016 01:01am