Re: Battlefield 2042 must have rental server program
@Phelippecsantos wrote:
Battlefield 2042 has to have a rental server program, Please create this soon, Because this Plan to create a server in the Portal, which only lasts when you have Player, is not good.
While I'm sure there are technical complexitites that we don't know about, I think EA/DICE could make money from players by finding some way to make Portal servers semi-persistent.
Right now, I could set up a Portal with an alt account on my (sadly ageing mid-range, much like myself) gaming laptop and go AFK on it. With a few command line tweaks, I could stop the game overly stressing the system and using too much power by limiting the FPS and resolution scale. This would leave a Portal server permanently running.
Surely the developers could find a way to make that happen without my having to leave my laptop sounding like a vacuum cleaner 24/7? If the option were available to have the server only run at specific times, then a community could build around it - the problem is that if a server you have favourited is not running in Portal, you can host it, but no one else will find it. It will show up in the server browser, but when you have 1/128, it's hard to get the server going. Managing the server would require switching PCs if you are playing.
The point is that there are lots of little inconveniences and difficulties that all militate against Portal servers becoming popular.
