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AIの波はオンラインゲームサーバーにも及んでいるという記事を以下に要約します。
タイトル:「AI」がオンラインゲーミングサーバーにやってくる
著者:BeauHD
リンク:[https://games.slashdot.org/story/26/04/03/2024233/ai-is-coming-for-your-online-gaming-servers-next?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed](https://games.slashdot.org/story/26/04/03/2024233/ai-is-coming-for-your-online-gaming-servers-next?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
主な内容:
スターファイアインスピレーションの戦略ゲーム「Stormgate」は、ホスティング企業がAI分野に買収されたため、マルチプレイヤーサーバーが停止することになりました。現在はオフラインでプレイ可能ですが、この事象はAIブームによるゲーミング業界への影響を示しています。AI関連の企業は現在、ハードウェア不足の中でも、できる限りのインフラを獲得し、AI仕様に再利用しようとしています。
「Stormgate」開発会社の Frost Giant Studios は、マルチプレイヤーサーバーが今月終わりに停止されると告知しました。ホスティング企業のハトクラ（Hathora）は、AI関連のファイアワークスAI（Fireworks AI）に買収されました。ファイアワークスAIは、「オープンソースのAIモデルで高速化し、特定のユースケースに最適化され、グローバルにスケーリングされるインファレンスクラウド」を提供しており、ハトクラのサーバーも今後さらにAI関連用途に利用される可能性が高いです。
ハトクラはゲームサービス部門を完全に閉鎖する計画であり、「Stormgate」もおそらく最後の一例ではない可能性があります。ハトクラは「スプリットゲート2」といった他のオンラインゲームにもサービスを提供しています。
"Consumer PC parts aren't the only things being gobbled up by the 'AI' industry," writes PCWorld's Michael Crider. "A Starcraft-inspired strategy game is shutting down its multiplayer servers because the hosting company got bought out for 'AI.'" The game will still be playable offline for now, but the shutdown highlights the ripple effects of the AI boom on the gaming industry. Amid the ongoing hardware shortages, AI companies are basically gobbling up as much infrastructure as they can to repurpose it for AI workloads. From the report: The game in question is Stormgate, a crowdfunded revival of the real-time strategy genre that has languished in the last decade or so. The developer Frost Giant Studios told its players on Discord (spotted by PC Gamer) that it would be unable to continue multiplayer access past the end of this month. The "game server orchestration partner" was bought by an AI company -- the developer's words, not mine -- which means that the multiplayer aspects of the game will have a "planned outage."
The devs say the game will be patched for offline play, presumably including its single-player campaign mode and co-op modes, but "online modes will not be available at that point." They're hoping to bring back online play in a later update, but that'll depend on "finding a partner to support ongoing operations." That sounds like old-fashioned player-hosted games with lobbies aren't in the cards, at least not yet.
Frost Giant's server provider is Hathora, which was bought by a company called Fireworks AI last month. Fireworks describes its offerings as "open-source AI models at blazing speed, optimized for your use case, scaled globally with the Fireworks Inference Cloud." So, yeah, Hathora's infrastructure will likely be used for yet more generative "AI." And according to GamesBeat, it's planning to shut down the game service aspect of its company completely. That means Stormgate probably isn't going to be the last game affected. Hathora also provides online services for Splitgate 2, among others. I'm contacting Hathora for comment and will update this story if I receive a response.
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