Seems to be a lot confusing who owns the "network" hint: none of the console manufacturers. The ones who actually own the "network" are the ones you pay to access the internet in the first place....your ISP. Furthermore a lot of you don't seem to have checked up on your facts on this your games don't run on servers the majority of the time (the only games these days I know on consoles that run on servers are EA games rest use a console as the host), as for the database to hold your account the only thing I need to point out hotmail, gmail, steam account, free 2 play games accounts.....all free, don't cost a thing all hold your account details on a database.
@Rocthepanther89 Microsoft = software company, Sony = Hardware company...go figure why it took 8 years for sony to get the software side up to scratch and why microsoft took so long getting the hardware reliable
@steelmouth Console manufacturers don't own the network......that would be your ISP (Internet Service Provider) your not physically paying for anything when you buy xbox live gold. The network itself as I mentioned is run and maintained by your ISP hence your ISP cost's, the database your account is held on is at max the most they pay for and steam account nuff said been free for years never paid once, hotmail...same, gmail...same. So databases can't cost that much for a business if anything. Game servers.......only EA games use them these days and they're owned by EA hence the reason they rent them out on bf3 (maybe others) all other games including microsofts own studios games run peer 2 peer thats one persons 360 is the host..........so what exactly are you paying for everything you access with it "should" be free you've already paid for internet access paying your ISP
@steelmouth I think you have confused the ISP who own the network with the console manufacturer who at most own a database with your account details (more likely is they have outsourced and rented a server to do it this way lowering costs for themselves)
Still no teamwork oriented features for pc 64 player games, me no buy its pointless. Until they can get all the features back from bf2 that prevented squads scattering all over the map (spawn on squad leader only, a leader order system you can actually see clearly not some obscure marker), and co-ordinate the different squads so they don't all end up clustered one flag or flailing around the map aimlessly (commander) then bf3 is a waste of money on pc. Oh and lack of ingame Voice chat in pc version (seriously you can only speak to people in your friends list, you can't ask for a pickup, ask for another nearby squads help, ask for tanks support etc unless the player accepts a friend request by tabbing out of the game, accepting in the web browser then joining private chat). So my money is going on mechwarrior online, planetside 2 until they fix the teamwork issue
@rat5112 Well considering the idea's EA copy/ripoff all the time it most certainly will come back and bite them in their ass by doing this because then other game devs knowing EA copied them will turn around and say if EA can do it so can we
@danielcliment No it shouldn't they should be two different styles of gameplay and this is the problem battlefield is starting to lose its feel and its becoming another generic shooter as everyone is claiming. BF3 "should" have been about large battles the problem is it doesnt feel like that it feels like lots of skirmishes around a small part of a large map 9firestorm prime example all flags clustered in the centre most of the map is wasted and you never see), its overly hectic for the CoD crowd to not lose there (short) attention spans. MoH is looking like it has smaller maps (maybe around bad company size) so again more hectic feel.......a trick CoD does to make its games action packed, cram as many players into as small a space as possible so thick idiots (what they think we are) into the action quicker
@MJ12-Conspiracy Sorry to say but your better off getting a pc for "tactical shooters" (i prefer to call the simulators) rainbow 6:patriots is looking to be more arcadey crap....its were the series headed since ubisoft took over. Get Arma or some older games like hidden and dangerous 2 for your "tactical shooter" fix.Or if you insist on sticking with consoles....which im assuming your using because of the list you gave, then buy an original xbox and get your self operation flashpoint on that as its the closest your going to get to a proper pc simulator as you'll ever get
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