Obviously my post is going to be aimed more at Xbox LIVE because I use that more than PSN, but more importantly I PAY for XBL, whereas I can (personally) forgive the PSN more because it costs nothing.
I'm utterly sick of the way MS allow cheating, glitching, hacking of all sorts on a premium paid service. Every time I find a game I love, it ends up glitched, ruined...utterly ruined and as soon as the game devs patch it, new glitches are found.
Microsoft should be coming down HARD on these people, they are ruining the service for others and they should be banning these people, outright banning.
Alright, it's hardly an expensive service, but it costs enough, it's full of ads (now anyway), and you have to host games yourself, meaning if you get in a match with people from across the pond, you've really no chance as they'll be host and your ping rating will be ****e.
Even worse, even with all that, even though the "closed" system is consantly opened by these glitchers, is that games with level creation, community based features that could be great...you can very rarely share them because MS consider that a thread to their "well policed" service...we can't have N+ levels full of cocks and tits now can we!!
So yeah, I'm seriously considering not bothering renewing my Gold status after it runs out in January, I don't see why I should continue to pay for a service that they just take your money and couldn't give a **** about.
As for the PSN, it's "okay", but it's a long way behind XBL even now, having to have "chat rooms" is archaic and just plain crappy. At least they have dedicated servers, but the "open" system whereby they allow any bluetooth mic just makes that a mess as well.
So, next gen eh? I'm not so sure that the online service are where they could or should be!
I'm aware this is a very moany post and I've absolutely love to hear positive opinions as well as negative...so yeah...thoughts, opinions?
Edit: If a mod could add a poll that'd be great!
I'm utterly sick of the way MS allow cheating, glitching, hacking of all sorts on a premium paid service. Every time I find a game I love, it ends up glitched, ruined...utterly ruined and as soon as the game devs patch it, new glitches are found.
Microsoft should be coming down HARD on these people, they are ruining the service for others and they should be banning these people, outright banning.
Alright, it's hardly an expensive service, but it costs enough, it's full of ads (now anyway), and you have to host games yourself, meaning if you get in a match with people from across the pond, you've really no chance as they'll be host and your ping rating will be ****e.
Even worse, even with all that, even though the "closed" system is consantly opened by these glitchers, is that games with level creation, community based features that could be great...you can very rarely share them because MS consider that a thread to their "well policed" service...we can't have N+ levels full of cocks and tits now can we!!
So yeah, I'm seriously considering not bothering renewing my Gold status after it runs out in January, I don't see why I should continue to pay for a service that they just take your money and couldn't give a **** about.
As for the PSN, it's "okay", but it's a long way behind XBL even now, having to have "chat rooms" is archaic and just plain crappy. At least they have dedicated servers, but the "open" system whereby they allow any bluetooth mic just makes that a mess as well.
So, next gen eh? I'm not so sure that the online service are where they could or should be!
I'm aware this is a very moany post and I've absolutely love to hear positive opinions as well as negative...so yeah...thoughts, opinions?
Edit: If a mod could add a poll that'd be great!
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