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[Xevious]

I think that it is a good service, especially for the price, but given the length of their beta period, I was expecting a more polished product.

Some of these issues aren't a problem with Live, per se, but they certainly call attention to its current shortcomings. I've found Mech Assault to be downright frustrating; multiplayer game balance SUCKS (not Live, but the result of a product rushed to market in time for Live), hosts unplug their network connections when they're losing, people drop out of the staging room seconds before games launch (is this Live or malicious players?) - team destruction is always a joy when its four against one (and you're the one) - and as far as I can tell, there isn't any way to select teammates/opponents that are approximately at your level of ability, which was one of M$'s highly-touted features for Live.

In other words, it's a typical MS version 1.0 product. God help us.

I do have faith that M$ will be most expeditious in improving Live, as they have their reputation, market dominance, and a hell of a lot of money at stake. Now let's all cross our fingers and hope for the best...

Oh, and WHERE ARE THE RPGs? Sheesh...

[Oger]

hmmm I like LIVE alot

the lag amazed me the best for number of people in Unreal.. And the smoothness in NFL 2k3

the ranking I like too thats really neat..Hopefully they expand on it like say most rushing yards in football Stuff like that.

And mabye tournies that MSN will host

but hey its still early lets see what they will do

[Oger]

nice... ya fever wasent in at Blockbuster

like Fever way more then Sega 2K3 thou still good games

ya in 2K3 when you get d/c its a drop

so in Fever its only win/lose?? no drop stat then

[Derfel]

Must be my cable connection cause I have found that 50% of my nfl 2k3 games are laggy as hell.  And the disconnects are horrible.  Of 7 games only 2 have played to completion (no telling how many were quits/ legit loss of connection).  Mech assault was fun but at this point its just a bunch of chaos and people yelling about kill stealing (In team games no less).  Unreal works better than most games I have played. And as far as ghost recon is concerned, it sucks.  If you have ever played a tact sim on the pc, then you will hate ghost recon.  Its controls suck and the engine is bad.

[angone54321]