Live Needs Servers

[4Play]

Something that has really started to get to me over the last year or so. We get hugely popular titles such as halo, gears of war etc which are great games but the MP ( connection wise ) suck! These games would be so fun to play if it wasnt the fact every game your running off of someone elses connection in a country hundreads if not thousands of miles away from your own. It makes for a poor gaming experience to be hit with 1 to 2 second time delay on your shots from firing to impacting.

Does anyone else not feel like its about time consoles got dedicated servers? Its the one thing which is holding consoles back from really cutting the distance with pc gaming. Phewwww rant over.

 

[4Play]

Some games do have dedicated servers.

Some indeed L4D i believe has. I dont just mean the occasional game however, The fact Epic actually had ded servers for UT3 and not GOW2 is shocking imo.

 

[4Play]

I thought the whole reason live cost £40 a year was for stuff like dedicated servers?

That is actually a great point. The question is what do 360 users get extra for MP gaming wise to justify the £40 a year cost, compared to the ps3's free online capabilities. Dont get me wrong the x box dashboard etc is superior, i just think that considering the vast amount of people from different countries who play on live something new needs to be done. Not to mention it doesnt matter whether or not youve got a good connection if the host is from America. People who play games such as Gears and Halo will know where im coming from. Suprisingly though it doesnt seem to be as much of a problem on COD 4 and WAW :S.