[Info-vax] VSI Software and Stark Gaming

[IanD]

On Tuesday, August 4, 2015 at 3:35:04 AM UTC+10, Kerry Main wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Info-vax [mailto:info-vax-bounces at info-vax.com] On Behalf Of
> > johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk
> > Sent: 03-Aug-15 12:46 PM
> > To: info-vax at info-vax.com
> > Subject: Re: [New Info-vax] VSI Software and Stark Gaming
> > 
> > On Monday, 3 August 2015 15:25:04 UTC+1, Kerry Main  wrote:
> > > Folks on this list might be interested in this announcement regarding
> > VSI Software and a new start up online PC video gaming company called
> > Stark Gaming..
> > >
> > > [disclosure - I am part of this new company]
> > >
> > > http://www.vmssoftware.com/index.html
> > >
> > > http://tinyurl.com/VMS-Gaming
> > >
> > > And in case anyone thinks this is not big opportunity, here are some
> > background links:
> > > (imagine OpenVMS as the server platform)
> > >
> > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNQoOAK6GO0 (US only)
> > >
> > > or outside the USA,
> > > http://www.starkgaming.com/pp/E-Sports%20CBS%20News.mpg
> > >
> > > http://tinyurl.com/Online-Gaming-1
> > >
> > > http://tinyurl.com/Online-Gaming-2  (watch video as well as story)
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Kerry Main
> > > Back to the Future IT Inc.
> > >  .. Learning from the past to plan the future
> > >
> > > Kerry dot main at backtothefutureit dot com
> > 
> > Welcome back.
> > 
> > No offence intended Kerry, but...
> > 
> > If you have a family interest to declare here, now might be a good
> > time to do so.
> > 
> > Or some other explanation for the matching name.
> > 
> > If I've misunderstood, I apologise in advance, but others will be
> > thinking the same, so your clarification here will be helpful either
> > way.
> > 
> > Best of luck in the new venture.
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> 
> Well, I did state this:
> > > [disclosure - I am part of this new company]
> 
> But yes, absolutely, there is a family connection as well.
> 
> The company plans to capitalize on the rapidly expanding online PC gaming community 
> by architecting a new gaming platform infrastructure (OpenVMS is just one component 
> of the new stack) to address  many of the current challenges so prevalent in todays 
> online PC  video gaming world - cheating, server outages, lack of scalability, account 
> hacking, online abuse of female gamers (even though female gamers are now 40-50% 
> of players) etc.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Kerry
> CIO - Stark Gaming Inc.
> kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com

If you can solve the hacking problem you will be rich as

This is the holy-grail to achieve for online gaming

Being a UT player, this has dogged online gaming for years

Steam comes fairly close but it also relies upon the user community to assist them

Centralizing on product key and a myriad of other things is tough especially if you are going to have a system under which other game types can come under. Gamespy for example was one idea but it ended up holding a number of games back and then it all went pear shaped when they went on their merry way

Client-side hacking is near impossible to stop but I suspect your probably more looking at roll-play games rather than online low latency games such as UT?

Good luck and may the VMS force be with you *groan* I know, sorry :-)