Are dedicated servers just a hoax from FS?

[EmpIzza]

To quote myself from another thread:

@EmpIzza

If I put on my tinfoil hat I would speculate that dedicated servers will be released the same time as sanctioned mod support hit the shelves (or slightly after). I do not see dedicated servers hitting the shelves before sanctioned mod support and all that entails is done with regards to stuff like EAC.

(My personal belief is that sanctioned mod support is hell with EAC, and that FS might have taken a bit water over their head with Lua, mods and EAC since the dynamic nature of Lua naturally has great possibilities for dependency injection and similar methods.

I.e. the dedicated servers themselves are not the problem, but rather the cocktail they are part of with EAC and mods (in my view / speculation).

Also optimisation might be an issue. Which kind of machines would run these dedicated servers? In my world people have old gaming rigs, NUCs, NAS (for example Synology NAS:s with some functionality) or low-power servers (like Atom C2xxx or C3xxx boards), all of these would require some substantial optimisation to able to handle a dedicated server or two given how much resources the “director” part of VT2 seem to use. What use is a dedicated server if no one would run them?

(I might have missed something here, but AFAIK FS has no intention of hosting servers)