C8 on 11 December 2008
| The_God_of_War said: "I think we have seen people are willing to pay for the premium experience"- So XBL is the "premium experience" even though it has less dedicated servers than PSN, a free service. I'm sure plenty of PS3 owners will enjoy the optional addition of Home to their free online service. I'll probably stop paying for Live soon, it's more of a rip off than ever. |
Dedicated servers are "old tech". All they really do is make multiplayer gaming more laggy by requiring everything to go through one more hop. XBL has no dedicated (game session) servers, it was designed to not need them. P2P FTW. :)
Dedicated servers also mean when a publisher wants to kill a game they can just shut down the service. The only games this can happen to on XBL are EA games because EA strongarmed Microsoft into letting them run their own matchmaking servers. And ... EA has already started shutting down game servers to sell newer games - good luck playing a 2yr old sports game online.
