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JaggedSac said:

I do not care what you guys think is better. As long as there are enough people for me and my buds to destroy online, then it is all good. Halo 3 is doing fine with an average of 300,000 gamers on at any given point(I noticed one guy in South Africa was playing last night). Universal voice chatting and friends lists are awesome. Hopefully M$ will announce a partnership with Netflix as well, which would be completely fucking awesome. They probably have some major announcements regarding their service for the fall update. PC gaming is great, but Live gaming is also great. The two are not exclusive. I played Guild Wars(which was free monthly) but I also played WoW(which was not free and requires the same upkeep requirements from the developer as Guild Wars).

 

Live would be unquestionably better if it had dedicated servers, though.  There'd be no host advantage, generally less lag, more reliability, less opportunity to exploit the games, etc.



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Well, Bungie wrote an article about how they would have had to cut most of their online features out if they had used dedicated servers. I tend to side with my boys over at Bungie on how to implement an incredible online experience for consoles.  It is harder to make the experience as good as dedicated servers but they have written many, many articles on ways to overcome those challenges.



JaggedSac said:

I do not care what you guys think is better. As long as there are enough people for me and my buds to destroy online, then it is all good. Halo 3 is doing fine with an average of 300,000 gamers on at any given point(I noticed one guy in South Africa was playing last night). Universal voice chatting and friends lists are awesome. Hopefully M$ will announce a partnership with Netflix as well, which would be completely fucking awesome. They probably have some major announcements regarding their service for the fall update. PC gaming is great, but Live gaming is also great. The two are not exclusive. I played Guild Wars(which was free monthly) but I also played WoW(which was not free and requires the same upkeep requirements from the developer as Guild Wars).

 

 Yes well PSN is doing great with nearly 10 million users online every day.



 

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^^I was speaking of one game, but if out of 13 mil. consoles 75% play online games every day, that really is amazing.  What games are they playing?  5 million on Warhawk everyday and 5 million on MGS4 everyday?



ssj12 said:
ToastyJaguar said:
ssj12 said:
mysticD said:

Well you know that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

If XBL is not better why do you think Sony is copy all the bullet points for PSN.

They are copy Gamercards, Gamerscore, achievements. They are doing in game XMB (XBL dash), in game soundtrack and in game chat. They are also going to copy community feature like cross game invite, may be friend list ?

But anyway, all these features are available already on XBL not to mention mountain of contents. All the arcade game demo, free movies (mostly crappy), rental movies, free demo, not to mention trailers ...

As for XBL being more laggy, I don't know what you guys pulling that bull-crap from. I play GT5P and it's no better than racing game on 360. The on-line feature of GT5P is pretty weak, bumper car mayhem not to mention the lack of invite and match up so you end up playing with random jerck that going backward on the track. I don't have COD4 on PS3 but on 360 it play just fine.

@SSJ

Just because you don't care about the features dosn't mean it's not a feature.  You are a fricking mod for crying out loud stop acting like a troll.

Blu-ray is a great feature on PS3 and I used it all the time.  Some might not care for it but it still is a great feature.  Would you have remove that as "feature" because some might said they don't like watching movie on a "gaming" system.

Please grow up and act like a mod if you are going to be one.

you = tard thank you.

I just questioned the need for those features. Really does very many people really need them? Not all games need to feature in-game chat. And why not support an IM program that everyone uses like AIM?

Quit being a TARD when I standed my OPINION and asked why anyone cared about about those features. If your going to call me out on bais of any kind do it on grounds of me saying PC > Consoles always not an opinion. Grow up or LEAVE THE FORUMS.

Aside from the bickering here, you are right, not all games need to feature in game chat

But Xbox live is universal in games in that chatting with anyone is not dependeble on the game.

I can play Halo 3 with a bunch of dudes but i can chat to my friend who's playing Call of Duty 4 for example.

My main problem with the PSN is that alot of the online stuff is so focused around what game you are playing, for instance the games at the moment require a specific in game friends list like UT3 to play and chat.

 

If Sony want to make their service as good as live they really have a long way to go, i don't think home is enough. It's about alot of community integration which Microsoft just do so well at the moment. I check Xbox.com near daily to see what my friends are playing and to send them messages which is surprisingly addictive. But also a bunch of websites are dedicated to Xbox live like 360voice.com which logs your progess. It's just a really good system and who knew it would be so big and addictive.

 

 

 

 

Well considering the PSN is taking notes from PC gaming and not LIVE I think I can live since PC always kills consoles with features and games. Game specific chatting is mandatory in gaming, universal chat is not and should be nothing more then an optional feature.

You can live because you are mainly a PC gamer, but this is not about PC.

And i'm abit confused about you saying universal chat should be nothing more than an optional feature... chatting on Xbox Live to anyone you want is always optional.

I've kind of lost you since you just seem to compare Xbox Live to the PC, which is not what this discussion is about.

And even then, i would say XBL is just as good as PC gaming. To me, the only thing that makes PC gaming better at the moment is Steam.

 




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It seems like with the PS3 we are always just waiting for something. First it was games, now we're waiting for it to get the same features that Live has. What makes it worse is that the Sony fanboys are fine with waiting and waiting and waiting...Eh, to each his own. And on a side note how come every time I put a new game in my PS3 I have to and update or install! Seriously, I bought 4 or 5 games and on every single one I had to do an update, and they aren't that quick. I would like to once be able to buy a game, put it in, and play, not wait for some update or install....



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ToastyJaguar said:
ssj12 said:
ToastyJaguar said:
ssj12 said:
mysticD said:

Well you know that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

If XBL is not better why do you think Sony is copy all the bullet points for PSN.

They are copy Gamercards, Gamerscore, achievements. They are doing in game XMB (XBL dash), in game soundtrack and in game chat. They are also going to copy community feature like cross game invite, may be friend list ?

But anyway, all these features are available already on XBL not to mention mountain of contents. All the arcade game demo, free movies (mostly crappy), rental movies, free demo, not to mention trailers ...

As for XBL being more laggy, I don't know what you guys pulling that bull-crap from. I play GT5P and it's no better than racing game on 360. The on-line feature of GT5P is pretty weak, bumper car mayhem not to mention the lack of invite and match up so you end up playing with random jerck that going backward on the track. I don't have COD4 on PS3 but on 360 it play just fine.

@SSJ

Just because you don't care about the features dosn't mean it's not a feature. You are a fricking mod for crying out loud stop acting like a troll.

Blu-ray is a great feature on PS3 and I used it all the time. Some might not care for it but it still is a great feature. Would you have remove that as "feature" because some might said they don't like watching movie on a "gaming" system.

Please grow up and act like a mod if you are going to be one.

you = tard thank you.

I just questioned the need for those features. Really does very many people really need them? Not all games need to feature in-game chat. And why not support an IM program that everyone uses like AIM?

Quit being a TARD when I standed my OPINION and asked why anyone cared about about those features. If your going to call me out on bais of any kind do it on grounds of me saying PC > Consoles always not an opinion. Grow up or LEAVE THE FORUMS.

Aside from the bickering here, you are right, not all games need to feature in game chat

But Xbox live is universal in games in that chatting with anyone is not dependeble on the game.

I can play Halo 3 with a bunch of dudes but i can chat to my friend who's playing Call of Duty 4 for example.

My main problem with the PSN is that alot of the online stuff is so focused around what game you are playing, for instance the games at the moment require a specific in game friends list like UT3 to play and chat.

 

If Sony want to make their service as good as live they really have a long way to go, i don't think home is enough. It's about alot of community integration which Microsoft just do so well at the moment. I check Xbox.com near daily to see what my friends are playing and to send them messages which is surprisingly addictive. But also a bunch of websites are dedicated to Xbox live like 360voice.com which logs your progess. It's just a really good system and who knew it would be so big and addictive.

 

 

 

 

Well considering the PSN is taking notes from PC gaming and not LIVE I think I can live since PC always kills consoles with features and games. Game specific chatting is mandatory in gaming, universal chat is not and should be nothing more then an optional feature.

You can live because you are mainly a PC gamer, but this is not about PC.

And i'm abit confused about you saying universal chat should be nothing more than an optional feature... chatting on Xbox Live to anyone you want is always optional.

I've kind of lost you since you just seem to compare Xbox Live to the PC, which is not what this discussion is about.

And even then, i would say XBL is just as good as PC gaming. To me, the only thing that makes PC gaming better at the moment is Steam.

 

Thats SSJ's fallback to everything when sony is proven deficient in some area.  "Still not better then PC!"

I don't really get it.