This extended partnership will provide ASA with “know-how and funding” as well as new server features such as an enhanced mod experience with Overwolf integration, promised DDoS protection, and “unparalleled” server support. The announcement points out that this doesn’t mean that PC players won’t be able to host their own servers, but this does mean that people who know servers only as “those big tall things with the blinky lights” will get to rent servers from people who know what they’re doing.
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