Azure And Titanfall

Windows Azure: The power behind upcoming game Titanfall for the Xbox One - SiliconANGLE

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Interesting read I thought.

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xbox service alert

The 360 uses azure too. Anything saved to the cloud on 360 uses azure. Titanfall on 360 uses azure.

 

Australian Azure Servers....

I thought AU already had Azure datacenters. Titanfall runs on Azure servers, and there was that surprise Azure launch either just before or just after that game's launch in Australia.

Maybe it's just more servers, in general?

Reference/Source:
www.polygon.com/.../australian-titanfall-servers-going-live-this-week

 

I think people forget though that this all powerful cloud is just lots and lots of Microsoft servers, and I'd be willing to bet that many of them are virtual.

Are Microsoft just going to keep adding servers as more games make use of the Cloud? Perhaps in the beginning but eventually it'll be more cost effective to simply 'turn off' the games that are getting on.

What happens to games like Titanfall when they can't access the Cloud any more?

The Cloud has great potential for changing the way we play games. Problem is that it also has great potential to kill the ability to replay old games.

 

I take your points, but surely the current positives outweigh any potential negatives a long way down the line in a future where this gen may not even be relevant anymore. I think it's pretty cool if it's down to Azure that they were just able to run a
Beta that two million players we're involved in and it ran pretty much flawlessly. I guess there will always be a risk of the kind you describe with purely online MP only games whether they are hosted with Azure or third party dedicated servers.

 

I think it's a bit sad people are willing to get invested in the current (or next) gen of gaming and aren't that bothered by whether or not it will be relevant in 10 years or so. I recently installed an old IDE drive on my PS2 and I'm having ridiculous fun
playing old games on it, especially as the SH HD collection is such a disaster on PS3. This whole cloud thing has me worried tbh. Could just be another way of enforcing technological obsolescence on people's gadgets. "Buy the xbox two if you want to keep playing
your old Halo games because we sure as *** aren't keeping Azure open just so some retro enthusiasts can keep playing Halo 5 on their dinky little Ones."

 

It is sad indeed.

Many older 360 games that had servers turned off could still be played 'online' by tricking them into thinking you were playing by system link, a feature I understand the one doesn't even have?

Even if they did introduce system link for the One, Titanfall would still be useless once it was cut off from the Cloud because of what that powers.

What happens when developers start using the Cloud to power AI and the like in single player games and campaigns? Could we be losing access to even solo experiences because of the Cloud?

 

Cloud lol Microsoft still going on about it... Yet no results.

 

If you read the article you would see it not MS "going on about it" clearly the success of the Titanfall beta running sweetly while open to the whole One community can be classed as "results". It's fine I don't expect you to concede that point or agree.

 

I think the technology behind the Cloud is a great one, with a lot of potential for gaming.

My issue is as I said before, I fear it will kill the ability to replay games in the future.

I still play games that are over 20 years old and enjoy them. I would find it a shame if 20 years down the road I couldn't revisit classic One games because they've been cut-off from the Cloud.

 

Totally not disagreeing with that point. Personally I like to look forward, but that's just me. I have intentions to revisit old classics I have enjoyed but I never seem to find the time, and personally I find that sometimes the reality of revisiting old
timers doesn't do the memories justice.

 

^Gears (the first) did that for me. Was the best looking game I had ever played on release. Now is shocking compared to todays games.

 

Is Donny still here?

I thought he flogged his ONE when he couldn't figure out party chat?

 

I'm not sure AI is that programmatically intense that they'll need to cloud it. But in any case there's very little good spin that you can put on cloud-reliant games.

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Sort of semi-related but I read recently that some players were hoping to get Resident Evil outbreak up and running again. I missed that series the first time around so I hope they succeed.

 

[quote user="Genchy"]Totally not disagreeing with that point. Personally I like to look forward, but that's just me. I have intentions to revisit old classics I have enjoyed but I never seem to find the time, and personally I find that sometimes the reality
of revisiting old timers doesn't do the memories justice. [/quote]I like to look forward but that doesn't mean I stop appreciating what came before.

If you don't replay games then think on how it would be if you couldn't just pick up that book you love so much or rewatch that classic movie that invokes so many memories.

On occasion I still go back to TMNT on the NES. Sure it doesn't look as good as games I can play today about those same characters, but it is still a great game.

Plus thanks to emulation I'll pretty much always have that option to go back and play. Yet with Cloud games that's a huge computational (is that a made up word, I don't know) factor to add in.

zfair899. Perhaps AI isn't that heavy but when you could offload that to make more room for hardware based physics, then the possibility exists.