What Makes Xbox live worth it?

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mchaza said:

AussieGecko said:

OK from a Southern Hemisphere liver I am 100 percent with Squilliam where Xbox 360 is exceedingly smoother on the 360. When I was playing Modern Warfare 2 with my brother in Law on my PS3, when a single american, sometimes english man ie anyone not from Australia/New Zealand/ Asia (to an extent) they got shot till they left.

 

Not because we didnt like them but it killed the speed of the server. And if that person then got the Server (which pisses me off about COD games) we all had to quit and join a different game. Same lag was experience on Little Big Planet.

In Xbox 360 land I decided to play multiplayer on Gears of War 2. Now I was testing out hoard and 3 americans joined in, and i was thinking here we go and it ran so smooth it was insane. (I was a late night player because of being full-time). In fact  most of the people I have on my Xbox friends list are people from North America/Europe/UK. Because its smooth... and when I play. I have had the same experience with Crackdown 2, Transformers Demo, Spec Ops beta, Cod WAW I could continue.

Smoothness is different for other people but people in the Southern Hemisphere (OCEANIA AREA) we need Xbox servers. PSN is not nearly up to that standard in the Australian region. And if you think it is internet speed I ran 30mbps Cable internet from Telstra (people from Australia dont like to admit it but it is the most realiable ISP down here) and it was doing it in PSN. The lagginess. It has always pissed me off. One of the reasons why I dont like the PS3 is because of that reason.

 

That right there is worth the purchase price alone.

Plus there are 20mil independent Subscribers to Gold, there is a bloody good reason for it. And what Squil probably meant by demos is gold users get some exlusively first, as well as other features that are on the xbox.

well there are alot of faults in your post, first off there is 1 million xbox's in Australia and only less than 500,000 are connected to live while almost 100% of ps3 owners are connected because they can just for the sake of it.

game like MW2 DONT RUN ON SEVERS. games like MAG, Socom, BFBC2 ect run on Dedicated severs. and besides PS3 MW2 has extremely good P2P matchmaking now and for a while now on MW2 and ran very smooths Months before xbox got it (i dont know if they have)

and you are very bais since you have 30 Mbps downloads and majority of australians have less than 5 mbps. i have 3 mbps i i rarely , i mean RARELY lag on any of SCE dedicated sever games. So it must be you

but there is NO DIFFERENCE when it comes to LAG between xbox lie and PSN they both have there same about of lag problems since Online gaming isn't controlled by Live or PSN but by the Devoloper/Publisher so just nulls your comments down.

also you say there is 20 million subscribers well since they bought the xbox they have to get it to use the dam box

sorry but i have an PS3 and an xbox and loath the reason to pay online, and that reason is why i have ditched by xbox majority of the time for PS3 equally good free online service. trust me i have tried both and i dont feel unhappy with what i have or feel jealous of Live members features have. 

I  am running 24MB/s ADS2 PLUS from Internode here in Melbourne and I have my PS3 on a WIFI network and I get no lag most of the time PSN. EG when playing SSF4 on PSN I get no lag playing People in the UK or the US or Japan but when playing people in Australia it is like a slide show most of the time. and with STEAM Integration soon PSN will be ahead of XBL for the most part.   

Edit: for anybody not shore it is your Ping and not your Download Speed that determines weather you lag in game or not.