... erm, what do you mean R2 "died out"? R2 online is packed even at 3am in the morning o.o
@OP, you what I've always been peed off about with editorial reviewers? They blasted this game on launch window issues and used that to significantly bring down their ratings... but they refused to use the SAME EXACT STANDARDS for a games like Gears of War3 and Assasin's Creed both of which were plagued with bugs and Gear's online was severely messed up during it's launch for weeks and STILL has problems but were given 9.5s and 10s.
I've always wondered why the double standards w...
I don't think they're talking about amount of people online but rather the proportion of gamers that are constantly on. R2, KZ2 etc sold way more than SOCOM:Con and obviously have more gamers online but when you look at the average or better yet the proportion of people who bought the games, SOCOM seems to stand out with a higher proportion of it's users in it on a constant basis.
I'll read it once more to make sure I understood the article properly.
There are sooo many different online games in so many different genres that spread out the base. You'll hardly find people only playing one particular game always.
For me, my time is split btw Killzone & SOCOM at times but other times is Motorstorm & Endwars, other times it's LBP and R2 other times it's HOME and MGO, other times it's .... you get my drift.
Just waiting for more damned maps for SOCOM.
after all the FUD, after all the hate, after all the "SOCOM iz teh flopz" articles and forum comments and after all the launch problems, this game is still pumping hard online.
uhm, interesting. Maybe editorial reviewers and naysayers need to try harder next time.
Yes it is but there's just something about SOCOM that keeps it's base continuously playing that game no matter what else they play.
... lol, you're going to have to move that to open zone.
When you see this kind of stuff happening with other games on the service, what makes you feel certain that it's a sure thing it won't happen to halo3 or any other online game you enjoy?
.. and if it ever did, hey, it's free right? People would still be mad (and justly so) cause that's ruining the enjoyment of something they paid to for when they bought the disc...
...but TO ACTUALLY PAY for online service?! and have these kinds of things happen? Wow, I guess Sony knows there fanbase cause if the PS3 fanbase were paying for online gaming and this kind of thing happened there'd be pure hell to pay by Sony. Forget some free crappy DLable game, it'll have to be some...
Why would I go and support a console that only lets me access half the content I paid full price for and only lets me access the other half after I've paid and additional cost to the console maker while another console lets me access all of the content on a disc that I paid for?
When the PS3 launched the higher end model was only, essentially, 50bucks more than the higher end 360 model but people made it seem like it was 3times the cost of the 360.
Why didn't people apply the same logic you use to justify the price of Live with the price of the PS3 back then?
Very interesting concept to this game. I saw this a while back and thought the premise was a good one. Looking forward to how they put it all together in an enjoyable package.
Splinter Cell is multiplatform and timed exclusive to the 360.
I'm still holding onto hope that this great and awesome title will not be dissed like this by denying gamers a current gen rendition of LoK/Soul Reaver series.
I'll also have to add in Dino Crisis too.
Oh my lord. Are you serious?! ... WOW! I have to sit down. I'm dizz from all this spinning.
Men oh men, they know their fanbase.
you feel sorry for ppl who will be playing this for free with dedicated servers while you have to Pay extra to access the full content of the same disc that they bought for the same $60?
Oh dear.
lol, I was kinda thinking the same thing. MW2 looks the same as CoD4 but that KZ2 game really has messed up my mind with FPSs cause when I look at that it looks strangely flat, like no frills plain in terms of graphics, physics and animation.
I don't know to explain it but...
I had always hoped this would find a home on current gen consoles but alas..
.. why? He's a hardcore gamer. You do know gamers have other lives and it's not just EMO teens that enjoy VGs right?
I think it's because of the way they structured what success is with SOCOM.
On SOCOM, getting even 5 kills in a round is considered crazy fire power where as FPS online 5 kills is weak and you need to have upward of 20kills per match to feel effective.
So, with SOCOM, at the end of a game, even if you get 16 kills and lose you don't feel happy about it cause you still feel the other team pwned you and your team. With FPSs like CoD no one gives a rats butt about lossi...