o_O.Q said:
"Um yeah the servers had problems for two weeks and it was on and off, they weren't down. It was no where near the scale of PSN problems, basically your matches were laggy but chat was fine and I had no problems dling anything in those weeks. When PSN was down you could do pretty much nothing." as i said "xbl live was down for almost 2 weeks in some areas" in some areas... while the service may have been fine for you there were several people who were unable to acces it
"My point is MS has put in more preventive measures to stop hacking, otherwise lulzsec wouldn't take down Live" ok according to you their service is better protected but my point from before is if it can be hacked anyway what does it matter... i've seen several cases of lone wolf hackers hacking live with ease recent cases are the ones with the chief of security and michael patcher : http://www.gossipgamers.com/xbox-lives-top-cop-stepto-hacked/ imo anyone who really believes that what happened with psn can't happen with live needs to wake up
"Microsoft puts their money towards a more robust online interface as well as server stability, and coming with Gears 3 you'll have dedicated servers. What has Sony done with their "paid" service of Playstation Plus? They give discounted games and free games, but have done nothing to prove their servers will be reliable in the future." its amusing to me that you mention gears having dedicated servers then ask what sony has done with their servers... many ms first party games like halo, gears, etc have ran on p2p servers which in the case of games like gears 2 caused issues online meanwhile almost all sony first party games run dedicated servers psn users don't have to care about psplus they have access to what i'd say is a comparable set of online features for free with the exception of cross game chat and the party system |
I honestly didn't know about all PS3 games running on dedicated servers, so that is news to me.
Either way I still stick by what I said about XBox Live until the hackers prove everyone wrong and XBL goes down for a solid 2+ days (IE no playing of games, chat or downloading. It would be unprecedented).
PSN users do have to ultimately care about PS+ because Sony will eventually charge for online services if PS+ becomes very successful, as Sony would view that as a major source of income to replace further losses on future products (PS Vita and PS4) if you look at how much Microsoft has lost after development and RROD costs, imagine how much MS would have lost without Live? It's more then just subscriptions to, It's advertisement from other companies, etc.
Anyways, if people want to game on the PS3 or Wii then go for it. I am content with the XBL service and I feel It's unmatched on consoles, and worth the small price of $40 a year (I buy the cards on sale, never paid full price thats why I say $40)
It's just that simple.
