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[XILLAX]

ah shit, didn't think of that :x

[Butcher]

welcome to the show off your knowledge topic

[wirdo]

that would be totally inaccurate cuz you would get tons of "fake players" due to the network activity. The best and most accurate way would be to run a scruipt locally on each pmachine to query each server then store the stats locally and every X minutes the main stats server would request the stats from each machine and do the maths. but even that would be inaccurate due to the fact that it cant be live, cant be ran too often and some games cant be queried properly. Not to mention the bots in game that would be counted as players.

Anyway nice debate but the player stats thingie is something you cannot trust, if you wana know about a GSP size the only thing you can trust are sales. And for what I have read from different sources Verygames is supposed to be by far the biggest european GSP with a sales amount of 900,000€ for the year 2009. You can correct me if Im wrong providing sales from other GSP's but I doubt its a coincidence if they made a partnership with google. Also they were developping "itinerant techs" basically ppl coming at your home to help you out with your server, idk at what stage they are with that but you gota be a real big one to provide such a service (wondering if it has/will have extra cost tho).

We are running the monitoring script on each server locally, this is all scripted in-house by our developers.
The servers are also automatically being stopped when using more then xxx mb ram / xxx % cpu (specially for battlefield heroes a must since it has a memory leak)
I haven't seen any lag cause of the monitoring, and as far as i know it is connected to a big database server as xillax mentioned.
I understand that bots will be calculated as well, but thats kind of normal, since they are "players" also.

I have no clue what the sales amount is from i3d, we don't give them out to the publics, from what i've heard its more then you mentioned, but no, i got no proof at all

Also, why would a GSP come to your house to manage/help you with your server, this isn't 1988 when remote control wasn't invented yet lol
And i'm sure its really expensive.

Allthough, its a big shame that verygames only has the old games, such as CSS and cod, not even one ranked game.

Edited by wirdo, 19 July 2010 - 07:53 AM.