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March 22, 2004
And the Shards Will Be As One
If you're a massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) fanatic, then the term "shard" may make you grit your teeth and clench your fists. Don't despair. Sun Microsystems might have a solution.
At the Game Developer's Conference, March 22-29, Sun will show off a prototype of a game server that will allow game companies to up their server capacity without forcing online players to play in isolation in different shards.
For less experienced MMOG players, a shard is a identical copy of an online game on a different server. You are usually assigned to a shard when you start a new online game. Sometimes you can select which shard you want to play in, but if it has reached capacity, you must select another.
If all of your pals have already started playing in the full shard, you're gonna be stuck playing by your lonesome in a parallel universe. Nothing like a little isolation to ruin the MMOG experience.
The player-friendly game server technology is still in its beginning stages, and a release date has not been announced.
Link: http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,62736,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_4
Posted by gamegal at March 22, 2004 08:45 AM
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