Online Gaming is Doomed

Article = none , personal experience

I can't log into Wow. (World of Warcraft, an online game) . Or Diablo III.

Two different games ? Yeah , they didn't crash. It's a DDOS (distributed denial of service) attack. Been trying for a few hours now, checking back every now and then.

This brings me to one of my rants, that I can't remember if I wrote about this before or not.

Online gaming is doomed. 
Seriously. The entire world is on one network , and you're trying to run a business (selling access to your game across the internet) and every hacker in the world wants money or they're going to shut you down ? You don't dare pay them, because if you do ten other hackers will start up , and demand twice as much as the first guy did.

I heard about some game developer going to make a "serverless" game. Basically anyone who starts up the game takes on some server duties, and so the game is distributed across all the players, rather like the block chain that bitcoin used to use. (is bitcoin still around ??? Are there still suckers willing to give away their money ? Apparently yes. Such people are with us forever. ).

Trouble is , I got a six megabit down , one megabit up connection. Meaning if I ran a server , it would be the slowest , most worthless server out there. And of course, most internet providers don't want you running servers, because it causes too much network traffic. Traffic they don't get paid for ! They just want their users to access someone elses server, that's far less traffic than the world beating a path to your doorstep.

Which means ...

Online gaming is doomed. 

These attacks will get worse and worse , until the games literally cannot function. Why ? Because crackers want money and they think this might maybe get them some. Because religious fanatics think games are evil. Because some idiot is selling the services of his hacked computer network to shut down anyone you like so every business man in the world can decide to shell out a few bucks and hit the competition.

Switching to national networks is really the only solution.
I mean , if the hacker is inside of my nation , the cops can go after him. If the hacker is in the middle of china , guess what ? Nothing the cops can do for you.

I've mentioned this a few times on various forums, but all I get are "stupid no's". As in , that would be bad for my business so I'm going to make up some excuse that doesn't actually make any sense to say NO DON'T DO THAT IT'S IMPOSSIBLE DON'T EVEN TRY .

I suppose I should run through the usual arguments.

The Technology Doesn't Support  That.

The TCP/IP stack doesn't support security , period. A new protocol needs to be written from scratch. Since you're writing a new protocol , you can include all sorts of security features, like , say , the routers attaching information to each data packet (I came from this router !) that cannot be accessed by the user (and thus not faked).

This would allow you to decide "I don't speak chinese, I don't want any data coming or going from my computer to china". (All the chinese data comes from these particular routers when they enter the country, you just block traffic that came from those routers , and no foreign nation can do anything about it because they're CANADIAN routers, other nations don't have access to them, and can't stop them from saying "All my data comes from china" )

They'll send the data to some other country first and then to Canada
Lame.
The "new protocol" routers aren't on the old internet. That's kind of the point of making a new local to Canada only internet. The only other countries you exchange data with are those with a similar secure protocol , even if you have to build a "translation" server if the protocols aren't identical.
Plus your users should be able to specify a list of countries they'll accept data from. (the chinese student at school wants to skype home of course, but I don't speak chinese so that nation is off my list !) There's less than 250 nations in the world, so modern computers and routers can easily track that.

Selecting which countries you will and won't communicate with would be a primary function of the new protocol.


They'll just set up a proxy and get in anyways

Lamest excuse ever.
A proxy will have a lot of data flowing through it , lots more than a regular user. Which means they stand out like a bonfire compared to the rest of the network , and it won't take much to write a routine (with your brand new secure protocol) to automatically detect the high traffic, notice all the packets come from out of country , and cut it off from your network.

Someone will build a bridge between the old internet and the new 

And we're back to the proxy argument. Such a bridge would generate a lot of traffic and be shut down fairly quickly.

I want to connect my computer (or home network) to both networks so I don't miss out on anything
Obviously disallowed. The whole point of the new network is to leave the old behind. Go buy an old second hand clunker of a computer and have one on each.

Windows / Microsoft / other corperations demand I use the old internet and want nothing to do with the new since it's bad for their business

These corperations, and government security agencies are the worst offenders against the security of computers ever. The answer is , the old internet is crashing ! I'm writing this because right now , at this moment, I can't access my favorite online business (world of warcraft) and this situation is only going to get worse ! Their demands that you stay with the old internet will become meaningless when the old internet starts having way too much down time and you can't access those services anyways.

It Would Be Bad For My Business

Your business is dead if the internet crashes under the weight of all those hackers smashing everything in sight and demanding money , spreading virii, etc etc.  Adapt to the new system. Besides, the current internet is bad for your business. Sony Entertainment got hacked and a movie stolen and released across the internet. Which means they blew millions making it and got not a single dime in return.  A hospital in Beverly Hills got hacked, and it shut down all their medical records and scanning equipment . That was pretty bad for business too.