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‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Prepared for 100k Concurrent Players, They’ve Gotten 700K (www.forbes.com)
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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The game does have multiplayer. If it's not using P2P connections, preparing for 100k players and having 700k could make that slower. But I'm pretty sure it's P2P so that doesn't make any difference.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's still going to be some server overheads in connecting players together initially (I don't think it works just by IP), but yeah I think the game stuff itself is P2P.

[–] AProfessional@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Steam Matchmaking API is included in their 30% cut. They can have 0 servers.