Can We Have Dedicated Servers?

[Foxhound]

I am aware this is an old topic, but frequent host disconnection and high ping has been a real vexation for me and, I'd imagine, a lot of players. This issue does not persist for me in various other games so I assume this is related to the peer to peer network system. Having a dedicated server hosted on a cluster computer rather than a user in a 4 player secession could potentially resolve a lot of these issues.
This kind of system is certainly not cheap by any means, but the dramatic growth of the game and the company would lead me to assume that Digital Extremes could afford it. If not, setting up a fundraiser, or even better, various platinum exclusive cosmetic items that would go towards this project. Hell, I'll be the first contributor.

[Maverick Mullah]

Sadly we cannot have all the good things In life.

[Sithis]

Considering the amount of players running concurrent missions, it'd take impressive processing powers to handle all of them at once, and on top of that, all distributed across the globe, lest the entire point of providing stable and responsive solution to this problem would be completely void. That is sometimes possible for games with a full pricetag - but here's the thing, Warframe is F2P, already massively cutting down the average amount of money that can be obtained off of a random player.

[No_Quarter]

it is a co-op, if you have good internet you will have fun for the most part.
if you do nto have a good internet then you will not have fun even with dedicated servers.

it is to expensive and not really needed as game is not really competitive, apart from potato hosts with 1992 Wallmart internet I did not hae any issues because of this hos tthing

[Sceles]

Lower your matchmaking ping limit and the issues should go away for the most part. Personally I have had way more issues with server based games than games that use P2P.

[Yoshikami]

Won't the problem then be transferred to people who live outside the region where the dedicated servers are located? I love GW2 but they are NA based. I'm in SEA so I constantly have 200+ ping with my mediocre internet (the top of the line internet here will have about 60+ ping but I don't have the money for it). With P2P, as long as the host is good, everything's good.


The only online game with dedicated servers which doesn't lag for me is EVE Online. I don't know how they do it (if someone knows, maybe they can enlighten me) but it works. Only lags when you have like 1000 players in a single solar system.