onpon4 {l Wrote}:As for your proposed "solution", it's not possible. The whole point of a centralized master server that tells you about servers you can connect to is so that everyone can find those servers. Every peer-to-peer system has something centralized at the start, even if it's just a Web page telling you where the peers you can connect to are. They key is to only use the centralized part to find the nodes you connect to, rather than involving it in the actual activity. For example, you use Minetest's master server to find servers to connect to, but then it is uninvolved in the actual gameplay on the server you choose.
onpon4 {l Wrote}:Game servers are constantly being shut down, having their IP addresses changed, etc.
FaTony {l Wrote}:Since the game used Steam spyware
FaTony {l Wrote}:Only by having any step to be approved by Steam it was possible to make this Orwellian scenario possible
leilei {l Wrote}:Nice FUD. Might as well go rage against every MMO then. 0/10
FaTony {l Wrote}:Steam is much much worse than I've said in the article, I do have plans to list everything that is wrong with Steam. It's going to be a long post.
Duion {l Wrote}:People can also exploit free software, so your point does not prove anything.
FaTony {l Wrote}:Red Eclipse is exactly the free software game with malicious features. You can remove global auth from the code but that will ban you from official master server and you will lose 99.99% of the player base.
Arthur {l Wrote}:I've never played Red Eclipse, but why do you demand access to their servers if you remove probably one of the most important anti-cheat measures, i.e. authenticated players? You can't ban players for cheating ever if they don't have some sort of authenticated account.
Just make your own "Free" server and try to get players; you finding it difficult to do so is not their problem and you whining about it makes you sound like an entitled brat.
Duion {l Wrote}:Then maybe your "free" software game is not that free to begin with.
FaTony {l Wrote}:I don't want random people messing with my server. Red Eclipse doesn't require authentication so cheaters can use dynamic IPs or VPNs or anything else to change their IP and cheat however they want. Come on, you haven't even played the game an are already judging it?
Arthur {l Wrote}:What do you mean with random people messing with your server? Isn't the master server just pointing to the actual game servers or are you saying they inject code between the client and your server?
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