PS3 Trades increased by 200% since PSN crash

[MaxwellGT2000]

Kasz216 said:

MaxwellGT2000 said:

awesomeX10 said:

Kasz216 said:

awesomeX10 said:

Kasz216 said:

awesomeX10 said:
Without psn/live you'd need someones IP to connect to their game...

I don't need their IP on PC.  Steam or otherwise.

I don't know the details but thats because there is a server of some kind set up for at the very least the waiting room 

Actually there are MANY different server browsers on PC.  Including Steam.

For the same games no less. 

You can use like 15-20 differnet server browsers for TF2 or Battlefield BC or whatever you wanna play.

Point being... having one service being the monolithic server browser for every game in a system... is... stupid... and I hope I don't have to explain why.

You didn't contradict me, you actually proved my point you still need A server but the question becomes on a close platform where does the servers come from if not from the company who makes the platform? You say they should do something else but don't say what else they can do 

Pssssst *whispering* it's called opening up your service to allow for people to dedicate their own servers, you know it's not hard, every online service ever has done it till XBL came into the scene, heck if it was built that way this whole situation would be a mild inconvience (of not being able to access the PSN store and your friends list) while still playing on Gamespys servers (since Sony uses the same services Nintendo uses for online ^^)

Yeah, more or less what i'm saying... but I mean... sony DOES allow people to dedicate their own servers.  It's just for some dumbass reason they force you to go through PSN to use said servers.  It's the same with Xbox Live... I'm unsure about Wii.

Portal 2 uses Steam servers afterall...  EA games use EAs own servers.

 

If they were smart... they would use the Steam model.

Yeah a company can, but I'd be much more comfortable with a service opened up so much that I don't have to sign into PSN if I just want to play a quick game of Naruto UNS2 online, or if servers ever get taken down someone could host their own server much like people still do for Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II for Gamecube.