You dont seem to grasp the idea very well
Dedicated servers cost alot of money
Just because microsoft is charging us money for their service doesnt mean that they should host dedicated servers.And them charging money for the service is most definately NOT greed , its essential to the growth of the xbox as a platform and keeps the servers up that connect millions of players together.
Sure it would be nice in fantasy land where money grows on trees , but microsoft doesnt have enough money to host dedicated servers for over 20 million people to play on.
The only reason it works for the PC is that gamers themselves are hosting 90% of the servers with their own hardware and money.
to assume that the same system is possible on consoles is frankly ignorant.
no offense
PS , dont bring up the fact that sony is doing it , because they are taking a huge loss and one day you will not be able to play killzone while gamers are still playing rainbow 6 vegas.
that is the main advantage of peer to peer gaming , if you have an opponent , you have a game.
once sony starts running out of funding for things like dedicated servers (which based on recent press will be soon) They will either have to start charging for their service (which would become a complete failure based on the fact that its main perk is being free , without that the service is useless)
or they will close down servers
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