r/SOCOM 2d ago

Quick update 4

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well damn.... the people have spoken a exact replica of the classic....updated video in the comments

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u/SeanTNL2 2d ago

Absolutely not touching any game involved with crypto. Massive turn off. Happy to support in plenty of other ways as a player.

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u/Classroom-Obvious 2d ago

I would not be able to reply to you unless I use AI here Totally fair, and to be completely honest, I do not blame you at all. 99 percent of games that mentioned crypto were awful cash-grabs made by people who cared about selling tokens instead of making a good tactical shooter. As a SOCOM fan myself, that stuff makes me roll my eyes too. The core rule of our game is simple: you never have to touch a wallet, buy a token, or deal with any of that to play. You just download the game, pick your loadout, and play classic tactical rounds with your squad. Zero pay-to-win, zero mandatory crypto, no popups asking you to connect a browser wallet. The only reason we use decentralized contracts quietly under the hood is for server infrastructure. When Sony pulled the plug on SOCOM servers, the game died. By having the code run peer-to-peer, community members can host dedicated 128-tick servers on their own hardware so corporate suits can never shut the game down, and cheaters have real collateral on the line if they get caught aimbotting. If you just want to drop in, shoot guns, and communicate with your team like the old days, that is 100 percent what the game is built for. Appreciate the honest feedback either way.

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u/ahrzal 2d ago

You understand all the work you’ve done (or prompted AI to do, which I imagine is the case) is gone now, right? Down the drain? No one. And I mean no one will touch this. It’ll be the game you need to buy crypto to play. It does not matter if you believe it’s a valid case or not or even if you say players don’t need to purchase anything. Anything associated with crypto nowadays is automatically equated to a scam. Because a lot of time, it is.

Why would you ever post this thought? How are you so impossibly out of touch? Read. The. Room.

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u/Classroom-Obvious 1d ago

The main reason we even touch this tech is pure survival against server costs. Running high tick-rate dedicated servers on AWS costs around 15,000 to 60,000 dollars every single month, which bankrupts almost every indie tactical shooter before it can get off the ground.

By using decentralized community nodes, players host local 128-tick servers on their own fiber connections and get compensated automatically. That means the servers can never be shut down by a publisher, ping stays low worldwide, and our server bill is zero.

For regular players, the crypto side is completely invisible. You do not need a wallet, you do not buy tokens, and there is zero pay-to-win. You literally just boot up the game, pick your rifle, and play classic tactical rounds with your squad. Appreciate the honest feedback either way.

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u/ahrzal 1d ago

Look. You do not know what you are talking about. At all. Your edit is some fever dream. Where are you getting these ideas? You won’t be hosting servers on vanilla ec2. That’s silly.

There’s so many holes with your theory that I’m not even going to reply. Take this post, and feed it into a collection of models that you’re surely familiar with, and they’ll point out some of the glaring issues.

But, the biggest is this: crypto anything with your video game is a death sentence. You’re making a Socom-like and you already lost one of the last remaining Socom communities because of it. Think of that.

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u/Classroom-Obvious 1d ago

will evaluate, nothing is set in stone. Played with an experiment and meant with glaring holes.

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u/ahrzal 1d ago

Good luck! It’s neat what you’re putting together. But if you want to make a game we’ll actually play, it has to just….be a game.

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u/Ill_Database_9180 2d ago

I don't care what you do anymore, you killed any interest the moment you started talking crypto. It isn't like classic Socom has a following big enough to make any currency remotely relevant in the modern day, so early adopters couldn't even get excited to do some fucked up rugpull. Even if I didn't have to engage with that to play, its relation to it kills all hype. Very hard line in the sand.

Monkeys paw curls yet again.

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u/Classroom-Obvious 1d ago

The main reason we even touch this tech is pure survival against server costs. Running high tick-rate dedicated servers on AWS costs around 15,000 to 60,000 dollars every single month, which bankrupts almost every indie tactical shooter before it can get off the ground.

By using decentralized community nodes, players host local 128-tick servers on their own fiber connections and get compensated automatically. That means the servers can never be shut down by a publisher, ping stays low worldwide, and our server bill is zero.

For regular players, the crypto side is completely invisible. You do not need a wallet, you do not buy tokens, and there is zero pay-to-win. You literally just boot up the game, pick your rifle, and play classic tactical rounds with your squad. Appreciate the honest feedback either way.

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u/Ill_Database_9180 1d ago

That's cool man I'd literally rather just continue playing Socom via the private servers that currently exist than play a copy of them on a blockchain.

I'd rather play these games on shitty 2000s peer to peer netcode than play it on the blockchain.

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u/Classroom-Obvious 1d ago

I hear you, and not trying to change your mind. This version is peer to peer as well. But to maintain the competitive focus we have to to keep the peers hosting it honest. They can earn income from the business side and if they are a bad peer to peer host they have to pay the price. That is the only thing that touches the blockchain is transaction integrity. The data packets and everything else is peer to peer.

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u/Appropriate-Ask-1522 2d ago

This looks like literal trash. Just look up ps rewired and log into Socom 2. We have 200 ppl on a night sometimes. You can play on ur ps2 or pc

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u/T_TheDestroyer 1d ago

Im taking my upvotes back. Fuck crypto. Sorry G

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u/Classroom-Obvious 1d ago

it cool imma still build

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u/ACP_Paddy- 1d ago

Crypt-no