Online games need to be joinable

[Robotic Pope]

Originally Posted by TexRoadkill

The first one that comes to mind is Operation Flashpoint on the PC and Battlestations Midway on consoles. I promise you, a smaller audience + no lobby + no joining of a game in progress = few to no online matches and a very limited lifespan.

There are maybe 30-50 people even attempting to play online at peak hours with a game this small. Since war games appeal to a more international audience that play at different hours that number may be even smaller. Unless everyone is friends and agrees to play at a certain time it will be very difficult to get some full games going.

You can't compare the audience of Forza 2 to this game. Forza 2 will sell 1000x the copies and of course it would make no sense to join a race after it has already started.

But you can join an open lobby in forza2 during the race, you just have to wait or watch until the next race. I don't have BoP yet but I believe you can't get into a room at all unless the game hasn't started, which gives people very little time to search and get in the lobby. If it is like Ace combat 6then that game disapeares from the list while the game is going so someone seaching will think nobody is hosting.