14 DAY TRIAL // Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, the new action adventure title from studio Naughty Dog, won't see the use of dedicated servers during its multiplayer modes, as the developer wants to ensure a long life for the online mode by counting on the actual community.
Uncharted 3 is set to polish up all the attributes of its already impressive predecessor, in order to attract even more players that can enjoy not just its single-player story but also its polished multiplayer mode, which is currently enjoying its last few days of open beta testing on the PlayStation Network.
After trying out the Uncharted 3 multiplayer during this testing stage, many players started asking the developer of the game, Naughty Dog, about the possibility of implementing dedicated servers, a feature that has been extremely important to many other multiplayer-heavy titles like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 or Battlefield 3.
The studio said that it won't employ such servers, and went on to elaborate the reasons for this decision.
"We're not going to have dedicated servers, made that decision long time ago + we built the current player host-client architecture," the developer wrote on Twitter. "Decision for that server architecture was to be better able to support our fans long-term if we can/want."
Basically, the studio said that implementing dedicated servers would be a huge investment and, at one point in time, they will have to be shut down, so players are going to be left effectively without any way to engage in online matches.
"The cost delta between dedicated and non-dedicated is huge long term. Eventually someone will say it costs too great + shut them down. My personal hope is that by keeping costs down + strong enough community, we could be in a position to consider 4+ years of uptime."
While the lack of dedicated servers could lead to the hosts of a game to have unfair advantages before of no lag, Uncharted 3 players will no doubt be thrilled to hear that they'll be able to engage in online matches for quite a long time, provided the community is still active.