For four years people there has been this talk about Killzone 2 and how amazing it is going to be. Killzone 2 is probably one of the most or the most anticipated game on the PS3 to date. Day one, the online was fine no problems, no lag, having fun. I get off and then get back on and I can’t connect back again, it keeps giving me error messages and numbers and such. Anyways, I have undoubtedly had tons more fun on bots playing with 5 of my friends vs 16 bots, however recently Guerrilla Games has taken out the bot feature due to abusers, which doesn’t make any sense to me, they should’ have just disabled ranking points during the bot feature instead of taking away ranking points and then taking down the bots in general.

This is not the only game of Sony  has had a fucked up on release. We can name Resistance 2, while Resistance 2 has had the most impressive online i’ve seen so far with 60 players online, the servers were sort of messed up in a sense of not being able to connect to games, network errors and freezes. The game was however fixed in the next couple of days but the launch wasn’t perfect. Also we can name Grand Theft Auto IV which wasn’t even working day one for whatever reason.

Microsoft games do sell more than Sony’s and Microsoft game servers for the most part are working perfectly fine, with no patches to take out any features or anything. The only game I have experienced lag on is Gears Of  War 2 and from what Cliffy said, that problem isn’t fixable so there goes my copy of Gears Of War 2 to Gamestop.

It would be nice to have a game come out on a Sony console and have no problems what so ever. I know we are getting the service free and I know on Microsoft’s hand you have to pay, but come on, just ONE GAME! PLEASE SONY!. Killzone 2 was supposed to be one of the biggest games ever for a next gen console and its messed up day one. Maybe I should have bought Killzone 2 one month after release. I seriously thought about doing that which is sad considering the fact that I do like my PS3 more than any console on the market. If sony wants to keep some of their fans, they need to make sure their games have no problems the first time around.

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I must say LBP had the same problem.....this is one problem SONY should sort out

BUT its not a deal breaker & the OP is over-reacting.....BUT its a problem we must'nt give a closed eye to.

Sony does do that sometimes, but that's a problem quickly fixable. And you have a great singleplayer campaign to pass your time.

The biggest mistake with Killzone 2 that Sony made was not making the demo freely available in the US before launch. I think they missed out on potential sales by limited the demo just before the game launched. SCEE got it right with the demo, SCEA was out to lunch.

Sony do like to mess up their big releases

a good thing they fixed the connection issue so fast.. i was really pissed after my first attempt to go online.. i had that fabulous "no scolling" bug that kept me from joining a game ..there already was a solution on the official forum

a few hours later the i got disconnected couldnt log in again.. and the killzone.com page was offline so i had no idea what was going on

well they also fixed that

then there was that problem that people miracliously had become general within a few hours .that was due to the online bot exploit .. they fixed that too

what they didnt fix is the fact that those people who exploited this are still generals or whatever..

while the rest is still struggling with the first few ranks
i think it would be appropriate to "reset" the whole thing so we all have to rank up the real way...

but i wouldnt mind because people would see how its like to actually play the game instead of grinding bots till they reached easy mode with sentry guns and shotguns...

as for the sluggish controls "its not a bug its a feature" apparently

Wait... Did I just read that they removed the bot feature altogether? Even offline?

I guess all of these issues were fixed before the NA release. I played all day yesterday without a single issue. I didn't even have any lag.

It wasn't the servers dying under extreme pressure, it was like an hour's planned downtime whilst they applied a patch to fix a couple of issues that had come up.

Haven't heard anything about bots being disabled. Pretty sure that's just BS.

Microsofts service is paid, therefore they have more incentive to develop a strong architecture whilst Sony just has a massive expense, they rely on servers for 32+ player matches and they are trying to cut costs - hence less investment in infrastructure.

This guy obviously never plays any big name 360 games on release day....I think most games that sell very well cause initial online issues. It's a little hard to test for 100's of thousands of people online.