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Having worked on games that old with services, docker didnt exist and I don't work there anymore, I built the server. The ami+server has been chugging omg with minor os updated since 2011. The software would be a pain to dockerize and relies on a config/deploy system that is megacorp proprietary and some internal security libraries with console signing keys for auth that are baked into the binary. We'd have to release the source, libraries, and describe the auth system.

It's really not realistic to do what your saying.

Then again my feature is only a part of the game and I designed it so you'd get 80% only hosting parts of it statically on S3.

Provided as context. The amount of effort the company (not ubi) has given to keep the servers running since 2011 and through gdpr is surprising given how few people actually use the feature. It's be way cheaper to refund the 10s of people actually playing their full price game license. many more people than actually playing would be offended though that we shut the feature down.

parent grogenaut 4 years ago

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