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Max King of the Wild said:
auxerre said:
LOL MATURE said:
auxerre said:
DOATS1 said:
auxerre said:
DOATS1 said:

the only thing in this story that i picked up was the cross game chatting, invites and voice messaging. not much of a story eh? 

 

And handling of your download que, but that's four things, of which he asked for one.

To me, cross-game chatting and invites are the meat, anyway. What's the point of an online community if you're only connected to each other when you're playing the exact same game at the exact same time?

you wrote 7 paragraphs to explain 4 points? actually, 3; you can handle your download queues on psn too. and for your second point...what? you're always connected together on psn. ever heard of sending a text message? i admit xbl is much easier, but what's wrong with sending a message to your friend telling them to join you in a game? the xbl is not that much better than psn anymore.

 

I know you can set up a que on PSN, but it handles it poorly.

And yes, I wrote 7 paragraphs to explain 4 points because people like you act like they aren't a point. Sending someone a text message is not the same as chatting with them while playing separate games. Trying to pretend it is is just silly.

The real question is whether being able to chat with your friends whenever you want, cross-game invites, party systems, voice-messaging, etc. is worth the $39 a year versus what you get on PSN for free. To you, it might not be. But to me, it is. Even when I'm playing single player games, I am talking to my friends and it completely changes the experience.

 

 ...are you serious? How does it handle poorly? "download through backgrund" wait for my shit to be done downloading... wheres the problem?

Yes, I'm serious. If you haven't downloaded anything on Live, you won't understand. On PSN everything downloads much slower then Live, you have to install things after you download them, you can't download things while watching movies, etc, etc., etc.

 

EDIT: And it changes a single player experience the same way co-op can make a bad game more fun — because talking with your friends while doing it, particularly if you're both playing the same game, always makes things more enjoyable.

And like I said, maybe it isn't worth it to you. But it is it me, and clearly, it is to a lot of other people, as well.

 

 though I don't know if you cant download while watching a movie (never tried to but I know you can while playing a game and I dont see the difference) I will say the installs are for people who arent connected to the internet. It's a feature not a negative.

I don't have to be connected to the internet or signed in to play the game demos I download, and they don't have to be installed to do it. So yes, it is a negative.

 



LEFT 4 DEAD - November 17th