 We're running out of time, dude. We have like 53 days until 2K17 servers go down. But you know what happened? Shut up! Yo, wait, I was just gonna ask no questions in there, man. Yo, man, I was just gonna ask no questions. I'm fighting for the community, man. I'm fighting for the community, bro. Dribbling must feel like a dream. Oh my god. This responsiveness, I never really thought I would feel on any, any 2K game. Dirling. There's a server here, there's a server here in Ashburn. Down here, right over Route 606 near Herndon, there's another server there that I know of. Oh my god, what if I walk in there and I'm like, hi, I'm agent beamstar. I work for a news network and I'm looking to ask some questions. So what happened? So we got to Virginia and at first it was a nice ass place, big ass house. We were excited. Dave was brought to PS4, I bought all the cables and we didn't know where the modem was, so I don't think we connected on Ethernet, but we were pretty excited. I can't help it. Guys, what's good? We made it to Virginia. We booked into the Airbnb. You might have thought I was trolling when I said it on the stream or even on Twitter. We're in Virginia, north of Virginia. Amazon Web Services has a bunch of their servers here and they're all within like a two, three minute drive. And 2K uses Amazon Web Services as their servers. Long story short, I'm here to visit the 2K servers. I have to do some analysis. First things first, where the f**k are these servers? How expensive is that? Because my thinking is like they do that for like, so the first four days of 2K's launch, I've literally felt fantastic. Everything about it was fantastic. There was some issues with like people couldn't buy VC or whatever, but in terms of gameplay, never felt better. Unlike the fourth or fifth day, it started to go to like s**t and I was getting the variable latency. So if you're playing in Ajax, you've got to go through a hop and then go across the fricking world to Virginia. But if you live in Virginia, the hop is so close that you're going to have better latency, permanently. There's nothing you can do. Unless you run fiber off it from here to fricking Virginia and pay $70 million. But can't they just solve it by paying more? I feel like that would be the easiest solution. They can. They can. They can. Many companies now use something called the CDM, just Content Delivery Network. In the century, they set up mini servers throughout the world, depending on how much money they want to spend. So now if you want to contact 2K servers or Netflix servers, you're not going to California to contact your servers. There's going to be one local in Toronto or Montreal or whatever. So you contact that and then that has caching information and all that kind of stuff. And then your latency is to that server as well as to the server halfway across the world. Right? Of course there's matchmaking issues because now if someone's in Virginia and you're on different servers, it gets all tricky. But if you put more money into it, you're going to have way better performance. So I was reading this article and it was detailing a bunch of different places where Amazon has their services here in the Virginia area. If you guys play 2K in the East Coast, you're likely connected to these servers here. And so the further you are away from the server by proximity, the longer your latency and delay is going to be. Do you see this guy? Cloud Chase. Yeah, he's literally Cloud Chasing. Go back downstairs, bro. Yo, just get out. Come on, dude. So right now we're here in Sterling. There's a server here. There's a server here in Ashburn down here right over Route 606 near Herndon. There's another server there that I know of. And there's one server like a little bit south here. And this is the one that I've seen already. And I'm going to revisit it in a second. So that's what we're doing today, ladies and gentlemen. We're being too nosy. We're trying to find answers. The 2K servers have been trashed for a whole decade. Explain it to me. They have the resources to make it work. And we've seen games with decent servers. So why can't 2K do it? That's a good solid question that we're going to find the answer to today, ladies and gentlemen. All right. Hopefully, I see Ronnie 2K there and we're going to throw hands. No, we're not. Show them how you throw hands. Hit him, hit him, hit him, hit him. As to not Johnny's suspicion, we're in Virginia, the north of... I wanted to fit in. I got myself a neat little pickup truck. Check out the big body, ladies and gentlemen. Check out the big body. Never in my life would I ever drive or purchase a pickup truck. So I figured, hey, life is about experiences because I was going to get the Camaro at first. Or there's literally people that are such toxic individuals that have no lives that they'll DDoS the servers. They call them delayers. And they'll attack the servers to the point where you can't even play. They'll lag you out of the game or your experience very short, sudden bursts of insane frame drops and lag. How is it not possible to easily find a person and ban them? They don't get banned. The only way they get banned is if they get caught saying it on a stream. Who's going to self-incriminate? You have to be an idiot to incriminate yourself. His legs switched, bro! His legs switched, bro! Bro, look at the ball! Oh my God! No, so the way most companies ban people who are doing DDoSing is they use technology like Cloudflare, which is essentially just smart software that can detect what happens. So if someone is, let's say, pinging a server from a specific IP address, let's say a million times a second, then they'll say, okay, they're not trying to contact us for any game purpose or trying to attack us. So they'll block the IP, right? But because you're playing 2K and 2K is very latency sensitive. You want people to have good connection speeds. You don't want to start blocking people because they might be contacting you several quickly because they're in a game or something else happening, right? So they can tell the difference. They can tell the difference, but you don't want to isolate or isolate specific people of your community by accident, right? So if you're a kid who doesn't know anything about networking and you have nine people in your house who are playing the same game, that one IP might be contact and 2K a lot. All right, so check it out. It's like midnight right now and the streets are empty. So I think it's a good time. We're going to check out the servers. They're not going to let us in, but take this in. We went to Chick-fil-A because we don't have it in Canada and I figured I might as well. And I walked into a guy who was wearing a shirt that had AWS badge on his shoulder, Amazon Web Services. And I was like, what are the odds? So I struck up a conversation with him and at the earliest convenience, the dude just cut. I was hoping to like maybe get an answer, a sneak in a server, you know, install a virus, something illegal. All right, let's go to the server. Yo, y'all playing? All right, so check it out. We're here right now. And I want to head to a place called Lounding Queries. Also in Virginia, they literally do not use lights. That's crazy. Like in Toronto, it would be insane to have no lights. It's like these guys don't pay taxes. All right, so check it out. We're at Lounding Queries. Now this place was supposed to have been in construction apparently like last year, but I don't see anything. All right, point it there. That's the location. That's a 2K server. So there's nothing there. All right, so we're here now, nothing there. I've been to this one a little bit earlier today and I'll show you that one. It's closed right now and they obviously wouldn't let us in anyway, but what if like Ronnie 2K is just behind the scenes sabotaging servers when a sledgehammer just bow. Oh my god, what if I walk in there and I'm like, hi, I'm agent beam star. I work for a news network and I'm looking at some questions. Can you imagine playing online and feeling as responsive as playing offline? Can you just visualize one paint, my guy? You can. Are you dreaming? You can. I saw people do it. It said one guy, it said, I'm lucky I'm not joking. It said zero paint, my guy. How is that possible? If you have a 10 paint advantage, you're probably going to win. If you have a 30 paint advantage, that guy won't even see you. He'll be dead before you. Jabs plays on like one to seven usually. Because he's in UK, right? Yeah. Yeah, because the place is so small. The servers, they're somewhere you're not too far from wherever they locate the server. And I think 2K also has a server in Germany. I don't know if they have one in the UK, but I know they have one in Germany. So if you're in Germany, you're super blessed. Or if you're in Germany. On 2K, I hit up my quang. I was like, bro, could we at least get the ping number? And he's like, I'm going to shoot it, but I don't think people are going to respond to it. All PC games have that. I don't understand. You're contacting the server almost every second or every half second, every millisecond. Adding that in shouldn't be that difficult. You already have the information. Just show it on the screen. The one downside I see is that if everyone sees their ping, you have more complaints. Because now you have physical data, right? You can't say, I lag. Obviously, I have 87 ping in Asia. Ping only matters relatively when you're playing against, right? If you all have 30 ping, then it's a fair game. Yeah, if you have one ping and I have 100 ping, I lose. No matter what. Right? So you can't just say, I'm going to count ping. It's how much is your ping relative to people in your game, right? No, not really. Because even if we both have 100 ping, it'd be a fair battle between us, but it would still be a bad experience. No, it'd be terrible. But if you both have 30 ping, it'd be easier to deal with than 1 versus 30. Because 1 versus 30, I can't guard you. It's over, right? 30 on 30, passable. Anything over 30, eh. I'll keep it above, actually. I legitimately think their numbers are in the 200s. I know you think I'm joking, but I'm not joking. Why would they show that on the screen? Because it would be helpful to us. It wouldn't. Because you want to go on Twitter? Roll my 487 ping. Roll my 22 million ping. So then we went to another location, and that location had three different buildings. And they had one security guard and a couple of metal detectors. And we talked to that security guard for a bit. I can't count it. Bring back 2K 17. Yo, yo, you're wilding. Yo, I'm out of here, bro. What a dumbass, bro. And there it is, yo. I think that's wrong. I'm gonna take you guys on a mother f***ing adventure. Get it? Yeah, man. Let's go, dude. We're gonna bring back 2K 17 servers, man. Wait, pause. 2K 15 servers. Okay, hold on, bro. Is the door open? Can you hold the recording camera? 2K servers here? The 2K servers. The servers of 2K. Servers, no? Amazon servers. Do they host the servers here? Do they host the servers here? No, no, no. They don't? No. You know what they do? Yeah, they don't. None of you know what they do. All right, thank you. These are not gonna do it. I mean, some of them are stupid or not. Check the pay people to monitor the reporting. Locks, right? Cost money, yeah. You have to hire people to cost money. You get so much money. Just hire the guys, man. If you can make a billion a year or 600 million a year, what are you gonna take? But that's the thing. If you even, I'll take the billion, but if I took the 600 million, my thinking is people would enjoy the game more. The player base would not go down with frustrated people who don't think the game is working properly. And then that would eventually make it, like it wouldn't be 600 million if you had it. Gaming is the most finicky market there is, right? You can say, oh yeah, we're gonna keep our current. Player base, but what's gonna happen in two years, right? Fortnite came out about two years ago, right? And PUBG went from the king of everything to no one gives a shit, right? And you can say, yeah, PUBG put a million dollars in marketing, not gonna make a difference, right? Because Fortnite came in revolution as the model, right? Free game, do whatever you want, and buy additional perks and whatever, right? And along with the whole barrel, real concept and call of duty, copy day, whatever, whatever. So in one year, they might not have half the player base. They might not have a quarter. You don't know, right? So how are you gonna tell the CEO to take two or whatever? Spend half a million dollars, I'm not even, 500 million dollars when there's no guarantee you're gonna make the money back? I feel like there is though, because they've been a successful franchise increasing every single year. But you know what happened? Shut up! Yo, wait, wait. Because you wasn't gonna ask no questions in there, man. Yo, man, you wasn't gonna ask no questions. I'm fighting for the community, man. I'm fighting for the community, bro. You're just doing- Okay, they can't really see your faces because of the angle. But on a serious note, okay. Unless you guys stand on that side. We're running out of time, dude. 53 days until 2K17 servers go down, bro. Oh my, the- Bro, what if- Oh, yeah. What if we convince them to keep him on? That would be- Oh, what if we pull that off? Honestly, I don't want those garbage at servers. I'll bring 16 back, bring 16 back. Yeah, nah, bring 16 back. We want 17 back. There's no way he works here and doesn't know where the servers are, right? I thought he was gonna be like mad helpful and be like, yeah, no, actually, right that building right there. If you walk in and use the code at 8432- All right, bro. He ain't gonna do all that. But if they're just renting the servers, let's say like Red Dead, let's say they pay a ton of money for Red Dead servers to make sure when the online comes out, which for some reason is still on out, is perfect. Let's say three years from now, they don't need that anymore. Can't they just take that and move it to another game that they're under? Yeah. So then what's the deal? Even if 2K just for every reason just vanished and we forgot everything about it, they can literally move that stuff to any other game take two makes. Yep. Oh, and there's really very little risk. There's probably some contractual obligation, like they can reduce their current purchasing by the 80% or something. Let's say 2K flops, Red Dead flops, take two, gets bombed, and half the people quit or whatever. Dude, it's like they turn to you and you want to test the whole video. 2K got bombed. What would you say to that? I should give it a shit. So then we found the third place and the third place is where I think the server was. And we drove by one time and I was like, did I just see bare security guards and metal detectors and way too much security for anything going on at 2AM? We drove back a second time super slowly and Davis had the window open with the camera like this, even though it didn't focus for half a bit. That's where I think they were. So it was like an eight minute drive away and it ran perfectly, which means if you're in the neighboring states, you probably have the most amazing 2K experience and you don't even know it. All right, so literally that night we ended up setting everything up and I couldn't find the ethernet cable. We just did it wirelessly and it was glorious, dude. Like, so anyway, we hooked everything up and it ran super fantastic. Davis was sleeping behind me so I don't want to be super long. All right, so I got everything set up on the B&B. The internet's looking cool. I got 58 down, 35 up, and the ping is eight milliseconds. I'm running this wirelessly because I don't know where the modem is and the guy, the owner, the house is not responding so I'm not entirely sure. I literally came equipped with a 100 foot ethernet cable but it seems like it won't be useful. I'm on the park. Hopefully I don't get any Ls. I kind of just want to compare and contrast. The idea being if you're very close to the server, you should have incredibly low amounts of latency and the game should feel very responsive. Oh my God. I feel like I'm playing a game on my career. Everything is moving so quick, so responsive. Dribbling must feel like a dream. Oh my God. This responsiveness, I never really thought I would feel on any, any 2K game ever. That is literally the worst shot you could have taken. Yo, imagine playing with my career responsiveness online. Oh my God. Like this, this is what I'm talking about. This is an insane advantage for anybody who lives nearby the server because the stuff I have to deal with in Toronto, like nobody should ever have to deal with that on any online game. I couldn't really see my just shot there, but it hit. The camera was in the way, whatever. It hit, it hit. How is this not the biggest of all advantages? Especially on the defensive end, you literally should not ever get beaten. There's not going to be any missed inputs. There's not going to be any sort of lag or I haven't had not one frame drop. And I'm playing on the left court. Usually the side courts get a lot of frame drops from me. At home, I have every possible piece of equipment that should help me reach optimal settings. And when I play on PC, I get them. And I never have any complaints. But when I play 2K, I don't get them. If I had millions of dollars to blow, I would buy a house in Virginia, call it a gaming house. And anytime I had a very important game to play, I would fly here to play it. Because being that responsive, that on top of things, is the biggest of advantages in the competitive environment. How good, sir? You know, can we show the world that this guy literally has a server in his room? It's not even that much. Well, look, he has a server right there. Not that much. I've never met somebody that literally owned a server. What do you do with servers? Server stuff. He does server stuff with servers. Yeah, we literally walked in here and we wanted to ask him to be a part of the video. And then we saw the server in his room and we knew it was like... Literally meant to be, my guys. All right, I'm the... We're eating a burger. I need hot sauce. Which one are we using? None of them. So you just use no hot sauce? No, I have another one that I have to go buy. The why is that the most humbly answered of all time.