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This Week in Videogames - TWIV
@thisweekinvideogames.com

1047 Games CEO Ian Proulx has shared additional context around the decision to shut down Splitgate 1 servers, citing high costs, a lack of revenue, and low player numbers. thisweekinvideogames.com/news/splitga...

thisweekinvideogames.comSplitgate 1 Cost 1047 Games ‘$40–50K’ per Month to MaintainCEO Ian Proulx shared additional context around the decision to shut down Splitgate servers, citing costs, lack of revenue, and low player numbers.
Zach
@determinism.dev

"Between the game servers and 3rd party dependencies, Splitgate 1 is costing us about $40-50k per month" "3rd party dependencies" is doing some legwork here, because I don't know if I could spend $40k/mo on game server cloud compute if I tried

Zach
@determinism.dev

Some hasty projections: with 100 machines (each hosting a single game server process, I'm assuming 6 players/game server) + 200 machines for services (authentication, matchmaking, etc) + 100 TB MySQL database, I'm getting $35k month

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Oddy
@oddylotl.bsky.social

100 "machines" for 100 concurrent clients? More realistic would be around 20 virtual servers. I can't imagine the game needing high specs, its a simple arena shooter. They either outsource and get ripped off, pay shit ton for anti cheat service or straight up lie

Zach
@determinism.dev

I'd really hope that your game server processes could host more than one game each (I chose c6g.xlarges for these!), and that's already capacity for 600 players: Splitgate 1 peaked at 450 players over the past 3 months - there's absolutely no need for this many boxes

Nolram
@nolram.cimbrian.net

Totally fair to be miffed about! What I expect is sucking some money here is that they are probably working with a company that manages their infra for them, those can charge big amounts but can be worth it for larger titles. The Unity-owned Multiplay, who operate Apex Legends, would be an example.