End of Net Neutrality - what effect on URU?

Relative Light · **Joined:** Tue Jun 18, 2013 9:07 pm **Posts:** 9

I was just wondering - if Net Neutrality goes the way of the Passenger Pigeon, what will become of URU? If Cyan has to pay for adequate connection speed .... we are doomed? Does anyone know if Big Telecom slowdowns would apply to indie games as well as indie web sites?

I have a sinking feeling ...

for more info go to https://bigtelecomvstheworld.org

Mac_Fife · **Posted:** Mon Sep 08, 2014 6:34 pm

By all accounts, Cyan actually has a relatively indifferent internet connection at the best of times. MOULa isn't hosted on Cyan premises (although some ancillary support services may be) - it's on Amazon servers, so bandwidth costs are amortized across the Amazon user base on a near pro-rata basis. If the idea of net neutrality disappeared (and remember that's largely the case for most ISPs anyway since they tend to shove things into priority queues depending on how much interactivity the traffic type requires), I guess cloud hosts like Amazon might choose to bin traffic into cost tiers. But, downloads aside, MOUL doesn't actually need a whole lot of bandwidth for regular gameplay - for each player, much of the time it's almost down at a level supportable on dial-up.

belford · **Joined:** Thu Jun 08, 2006 7:01 pm **Posts:** 1890

I don't know where the NN fight is going. However, I suspect that the big players will only care about Internet video. Any data stream that isn't video is too small to fight about.

Relative Light · **Joined:** Tue Jun 18, 2013 9:07 pm **Posts:** 9

Thanks guys .... nice to know that if everything else goes mammary glands up, at least we'll still have URU.

End of Net Neutrality - what effect on URU?

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