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Well, technically speaking any multiplayer game is a distributed database, except that more inconsistency is tolerated ("lag"). But all of the classic results, such as CAP or FLP, apply here as well. And given how hard even the simple distributed protocols are (eg. Paxos) it should not be a surprise that writing a good networking stack for a multiplayer game is also hard.



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