A good sign for 3rd party support of this, is Yager will be using Live servers for Dead Island 2 for the X1 version. Don’t know about the PS4 version. People seem to think using Azure is MORE expensive for 3rd parties than maintaining their own. I hope Acti, Ubi and EA…….well u know what, those guys probably won’t lol. I remember a Watchdogs dev talkin about using the Cloud for X1, and the impact on AI and physics. But remained silent afterward.

On PlayStation yes. On Xbox that’s already a thing. Anyone who makes a Xbox game gets access to dedicated servers through xbl and they are azure servers so they aren’t expensive to run…in fact they are free for basic pvp multiplayer. They only charge for persistent world games like say destiny but destiny is running on its own separate servers because its just the way Activision wanted to do it.

I’m sure sooner or later just through competition all PlayStation games will transition away from player hosted PvP and onto dedicated servers. Its just a much better experience.

Man I just wish we could all have 3rd party supported dedicated servers for all multi-plats this gen. That’d be a major step toward better games.