PSN Online Gaming - or lack thereof...

[sega4life]

So I'm craving some old school PS3 gaming with Warhawk.

I stick in the game, search for some servers and only 1 official server pops up?

Thinking i have my ping filters set to low I up it up to ping 150, do another search still 1 official server, I set the ping to 200, still 1 official server, I set it to 250 still 1 official server...

So thats it Warhawk has only 1 official server going and it's not even filled, only has 12 people playing in it? WTF I think to myself..

I check the user made server and the list is small, and 99% of them were 8 vs 8 servers?

So I decide to play some Killzone 2, pop it in do a search, 1 server pops up?

WTF again I think to myself?

I refresh over and over, finally another server pops up with one person playing, same default server name "warzone" (warzone is the default server name for user created servers)

I jump in and it's 1 on 1 for a long time... 20min go buy and it's finally 4 on 5, I notice half of the players have Chinese/Japanese text as their screen name, than I start to hear people talking and it's Japanese/Chinese/Korean.

I decide to leave when it gets to 10 on 10, I make some dinner jump back online do a search and only 1 server again, and it's the same one I left over an hour ago.. I don't want to join so I do a search and it's the only one that pops up...

So I make my own lobby and start it up.. 30min go by nobody joins.. I get up take out the trash come back, still no-one in the game, I put some dishes in the dishwasher, still nobody joins.

So I close it and do another search "Warzone" pops up so I join and it's the same server I joined awhile ago, and it has some more Chinese/Japanese/Korean players name text and voice..

almost 2 hours I'm playing with the same people, I mean nobody leaves, it's just the same people...


All this makes me think...

What is up with Sony's online? Does nobody play online with it or what?..... seriously?

It's not just the games, but friends list as well..

I mean I have just as many friends with PSN as I do on XBL, & Steam, but with PSN nobody is ever on? Steam, XBL, theres always a large selection of friends playing, but with PSN; honestly the last time I had at least 3 friends online at the same time was with the last update, and none of them were playing games...

For people that have Steam, PSN, XBL, even Xfire, do you notice any lack of a solid online community with PSN? whether it be gaming or friends lists?