What is it about?
Minecraft is the best selling game of all time, but struggles to support multiplayer services with many players even under optimal conditions. We develop a benchmark suite for Minecraft servers, and use it to examine the factors decreasing performance in real world server deployments.
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Why is it important?
Our findings indicate that the situation is even worse than previously thought. Minecraft, and Minecraft-like games in general, run extensive environment simulation. This simulation can decrease the stability of the server, such that modern Minecraft servers can become unplayable or crashed with only a single player connected.
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The popularity of online games has grown exponentially over the past decade but are not yet as popular as a research subject. Modern online games are no longer entertainment alone, but also cultural and societal phenomena with real world impact. I hope this article is convincing in showing that research in online games is interesting, challenging, and increasingly necessary.
Jerrit Eickhoff
Technische Universiteit Delft
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This page is a summary of: Meterstick: Benchmarking Performance Variability in Cloud and Self-hosted Minecraft-like Games, April 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3578244.3583724.
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