Comment on I remember getting a PS3 just to avoid this back then
NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social 10 months agoOnline gaming requires servers to run, and servers require money. Either the game is more expensive, the online is a subscription, or you have to run the server yourself. There are games that do each of these.
PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Bruh, peer to peer is a thing.
You999@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
To be fair though peer to peer has some fairly big flaws like giving other people your IP and in some implementations the connection speed for everyone is set by the weakest link.
ThunderingJerboa@kbin.social 10 months ago
True but you are still at the end of the day giving the host your IP still, it just can't be seen by the other players by normal means.
hperrin@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Peer to peer just means one of you is hosting a server.
NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social 10 months ago
That just falls under host it yourself to me.