Mass Effect 3 Demo Shows the Absurdity of Xbox Live Gold - 1UP

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youarebadatgames said:

pezus said:

Microsoft host servers for all online games? Is this true? 

They do the matchmaking, stat tracking, and under the hood stuff that makes it possible but a lot of the game servers are local and P2P.  Even so, you need a way of matching up players.  Even PC dedicated servers require a master server list that publishes who's running what game.

Steam does all that for free though doesn't it?