QUOTE(HSDEMONZ @ Feb 10 2006, 02:04 AM)
Even those with 256k up and higher.. as "guaranteed" by their ISPs.. many times.. do not actually have that. Sometimes.. ISP's lie. At other times.. it's throttled.
64k up was determined to be a nominal lowest common denominator for broadband access. Problably a very reasonable one.
It would be nice to have personal options to up our own bandwidth settings. I'm guessing though.. that we'd soon see an imbalanced LIVE experience.. where some would have.. and some wouldn't.
Personally.. if I got it to spare.. I want to use it. But.. at the same time I can see why the powers that be want a level and common field, as opposed to an sliding scale that shifts depending on your broadband supplier, time of day, and other hiccups.
I don't agree. There is already a lopsided response time based on bandwidth. That would be like forcing everyone to have a 500 ping, just so that the fastest of us would be crippled to the slowest allowed speed. Not very "forward looking", if you ask me...
I at least would like to see the option to add 1-2 friends to your private chat. Wouldn't think that would be an issue, being that on the PC, I teamspeak with 30-40 people while playing a game online..
Jeff