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riderz13371 on 22 August 2013
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Machiavellian said:
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Machiavellian said:
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I guess the real question is exactly how cheap MS is making dedicated servers for 3rd party developers. I am pretty sure its dirt cheap and probably at cost or even lower. MS is really looking to add this as an advantage and the fact that COD and I believe BF4 will also be using MS servers on their end could make the X1 the MP box for FPS games.

BF4 has dedicated servers on all consoles, not just Xbox.

In fact I'm pretty sure even Bad Company 2 and BF3 already have dedicated servers.

That was private hosting which you had to pay out of your own pocket or someone else had to pay I should say.  I am talking about free dedicated servers which is something totally different.

What do you mean private hosting?

EA has a few dedicated servers but the majority are the ones purchased from players paying 30 a month from the venturbeat company.  Also EA has cut back a lot on dedicated servers because it is expensive to keep them running all the time.

They still have EA servers up and running (I should know, I play BF3 almost every day). Also they cut back the servers because people kept renting out their own servers and tons of official EA servers ended up being completely empty. For instance, in the game mode Rush there is only 75 tickets for the attacking squad. People hate that because it's too low and when you can set up your own rules on your own server players started going to the servers that had 100+ tickets. Even now I can find EA servers that are completely empty because they don't like the set rules.