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Elden Ring is getting a free-to-play mobile version with in-app purchases (www.rockpapershotgun.com)

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Action-RPG colossus Elden Ring is reportedly getting a free-to-play mobile adaptation with in-app purchases, which takes inspiration from miHoYo's Genshin Impact. It's being published by Tencent, who apparently acquired the licensing rights to Elden Ring back in 2022 and put a few dozen people to work on a prototype, even as the company acquired a 16% stake in Elden Ring developer From Software.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Elden Ring doesn't use a server, it's peer to peer.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Player connections are peer to peer, but a server is absolutely still involved in match making and serving up player messages.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Matchmaking is also peer to peer as far as anyone knows but I can't find any info on how messages are handled. It's entirely possible those also work on their peer to peer system but even if not a server that serves short text snippets with coordinates to all these players could be run on 20 year old hardware so not even costly enough to register.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They have literally taken down servers before for maintenance and the like.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Oh, yea, they have a verification server for shadowbans but it isn't strictly necessary for matchmaking, if that verification process were removed you can still play. The seemless coop mod for example does that.