"- Distributed game session hosting where the players temporarily and reliably become the host of a shard"
I think that's how Halo's online gameplay has worked for a while. http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Connection_Host
I think that's how Halo's online gameplay has worked for a while. http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Connection_Host
Not really. Host advantage is still a thing that happens in a lot of multiplayer games, and peer-to-peer multiplayer has never come close to the same experience as a dedicated server.
I just meant the outrage over it seems to be much less a thing now. Now it's just accepted that this is how it should be done. I think like afterburner suggested in the sister comment to this one, those who were seriously offput by it have left and that's that.
Personally, I dropped XBL years ago because I was tired of children eager to sling racial and homophobic slurs. Playing games online just wasn't fun to me. I went on to play a lot of TF2, but virtually no one there uses headphones mics either. That, to me, was the appeal of Xbox Live. Everyone had a mic. We were to communicate and make the games fun on a whole new level. Instead, well, no. That didn't happen.