Senor Barborito wrote:

Maybe it's too easy to criticize because I've never written netcode but how can people *WHO ARE GETTING PAID* not know to a) use UDP, b) use Asynchronous Sockets for your client and Overlapped I/O for your server, and c) minimize amount of information sent where possible?

You would think that MMORPG programmers would understand that netcode is MORE IMPORTANT than graphics for their product, and that most of the physics/AI energies of a 'normal' game can be transferred to it - but in many products there is little evidence of this happening and to some extent the opposite.