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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...

"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

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

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