Xbox Live reaches 2 million members

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21 Jul 2005, 05:55 AM
Revoltor

I've never heard a bad word against Xband till now. Maybe you guys sucked at Weaponlord?
21 Jul 2005, 08:13 AM
MarsKitten

xband sucked for the following reasons. Extremely limited support: weaponlord and SSF2. Shitty interface, lack of nationwide matchmaking.
21 Jul 2005, 08:20 AM
Fe 26

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Originally Posted by diffusionx

SegaNet was shit. Horrible. Worst online gaming service ever. And I used both MPlayer and TEN. There was fucking lag in Chu Chu Rocket. CHU CHU ROCKET. Worse than Netlink, which Sega had at least the good sense to not make a linchpin of the Saturn strategy.

to be fair I don't really think the netlink was pushed heavily for online gaming. It was pushed just as much if not more for web browsing to those who can't afford a computer.
21 Jul 2005, 08:54 AM
AaronChance

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Originally Posted by ChaoofNee

I wonder how many of those are 2 month trial accounts in limbo.

Mine is.
21 Jul 2005, 09:31 AM
Wildkat

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Originally Posted by Master

For as bad as Chu Chu Rocket was (bad netcode), Phantasy Star Online over Broadband was fantastic. FANTASTIC. Hell, it was pretty good over Dialup.

Quake III was very good on the DC as well. Even over dialup..

The lag in Chu-chu rocket was intentional becuase some moron at sega though it would make things more fair....

The netlink worked very well, but it wasnt internet gaming, it was direct dial. As well as the xband.

You also have to respect the XBand, these guys added modem support to games that didn't even have it to begin with, they had to write patches to each game they supported.
21 Jul 2005, 10:38 AM
mollipen

Give all the respect to XBL that it deserves, but yeah, don't also short the Dreamcast out its due. It was what really started the "home consoles online" idea - it was just that XBL came along and made it a total package.
21 Jul 2005, 10:52 AM
dave is ok

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Originally Posted by MarsKitten

xband sucked for the following reasons. Extremely limited support: weaponlord and SSF2. Shitty interface, lack of nationwide matchmaking.

Xband has nationwide matchmaking, but it was like 200 dollars a month or something
21 Jul 2005, 11:35 AM
Melf

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Originally Posted by diffusionx

SegaNet was shit. Horrible. Worst online gaming service ever. And I used both MPlayer and TEN. There was fucking lag in Chu Chu Rocket. CHU CHU ROCKET. Worse than Netlink, which Sega had at least the good sense to not make a linchpin of the Saturn strategy.

Chu Chu Rocket was the first online DC game, and came out before the SegaNet service was up and running. Later games, like PSO, played wonderfully, with little or no lag.

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The fact is, all of these online gaming attempts were failures. Xbox Live has come along, established a market, established a bare minimum of what we should expect in online gaming, established a great interface, and showed what type of experiences are possible. Its really moved console online forward, now we just need more game designs like PGR2 and Splinter Cell to match it.

If it weren't for these "failures," you wouldn't even have Xbox Live. ;)
21 Jul 2005, 12:00 PM
EMAGDNIM

I didnt buy my X Box for Live, but I jumped on when a lot of good (see fighting and racing games) titles where live enabled...
21 Jul 2005, 01:29 PM
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To be fair to SegaNet MS learnmed every possible mistake they could make from Sega.

The sevice was bad, but I would still call them pioneers in on-line gaming.

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