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| Jon Yeager 2004-11-18, 5:51 pm |
| Hi,
I installed and tried XBox Live for the first time last night, and played
Halo 2.
Flawless, lagless gameplay. Thumbs up.
Then I put on EA's NHL2005.
Oy. I played 4 games and all 4 were completely unplayable. We're talking 3
frames per second here. The kind of lag you tell your grandchildren about
someday.
Is there a setting I need to change somewhere in either the Dashboard or
NHL2005 to help with this? So far my Live experience has been 50/50. Both
perfect and horrible, depending on which of the two above games I tried.
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> Hi,
>
> I installed and tried XBox Live for the first time last night, and played
> Halo 2.
>
> Flawless, lagless gameplay. Thumbs up.
>
> Then I put on EA's NHL2005.
>
> Oy. I played 4 games and all 4 were completely unplayable. We're talking 3
> frames per second here. The kind of lag you tell your grandchildren about
> someday.
>
> Is there a setting I need to change somewhere in either the Dashboard or
> NHL2005 to help with this? So far my Live experience has been 50/50. Both
> perfect and horrible, depending on which of the two above games I tried.
>
>
it took EA about two and half years to come around to xbox live, and when
finally did, they still chose to act like xbox live was a second rate
community of gamers that was only good for a little free advertising, at
least that's how i see it. EA doesn't use microsoft's servers, like almost
every other live game out there. they chose to use their own servers, which
unfortunately really, really suck, so that they could better keep track of
who's playing their games and also have an open road to drive all kinds of
advertising right down the throats of whoever might be playing. so don't
worry, it's not your xbox or connection, it's EA. try playing sega's 2k
series, or really just about anything else. you'll see a significant
improvment in online gameplay.
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| Jon Yeager 2004-11-18, 5:51 pm |
| "mike" <mall69@adelphia.net> wrote in message
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> it took EA about two and half years to come around to xbox live, and when
> finally did, they still chose to act like xbox live was a second rate
> community of gamers that was only good for a little free advertising, at
> least that's how i see it. EA doesn't use microsoft's servers, like almost
> every other live game out there. they chose to use their own servers,
> which
> unfortunately really, really suck, so that they could better keep track of
> who's playing their games and also have an open road to drive all kinds of
> advertising right down the throats of whoever might be playing. so don't
> worry, it's not your xbox or connection, it's EA. try playing sega's 2k
> series, or really just about anything else. you'll see a significant
> improvment in online gameplay.
What I find bizarre is that I used to be a big fan of the PC versions of the
EA NHL series, and they had (and continue to have) the same problems with
online play there, ever since 2000 or 2001 when the game first went online.
Every year, EA NHL loyalists would buy the new version of the game, figuring
they'd ironed out their lag problems. Every year, we realized they never
cared to figure it out. While having 10 guys on the ice move around with
sticks and a puck was always too much for the game to handle online, games
like Unreal Tournament and Half Life were being played with many more
participants at once, with virtually no lag to speak of.
And this was 3 years ago.
Here we are, turning the corner on 2005 and EA *still* won't solve their
online playability problem?
I took a chance with the console version, figuring it couldn't possibly be
worse than the PC. And again, I overestimated the people behind this game.
Video game magazines point out how sales for the NHL line have plummetted
since 1999, and that what was once a leading title is now virtually
worthless as a moneymaker for them. But EA has only itself to blame. What
Bungie understood is that the future will go through online gaming. You
can't hope to survive or thrive while ignoring that aspect of it.
Why doesn't anyone at EA understand this? As long as they continue to ignore
the online playability of these games, they will continue to be worthless.
Sooner or later, we'll want to play against the best in the world.
NHL2006 will be where I officially throw in the towel on this title. And I
was one of the few remaining loyalists.
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| Andrew 2004-11-19, 12:49 am |
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"Jon Yeager" <nospam@please.com> wrote in message
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> "mike" <mall69@adelphia.net> wrote in message
> news:uU8E$vZzEHA.1192@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
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> Video game magazines point out how sales for the NHL line have plummetted
> since 1999, and that what was once a leading title is now virtually
> worthless as a moneymaker for them.
It's not just the NHL line....It's the NHL!
Why care about that league anymore?
I still haven't gotten over the baseball strike of '94!
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> But EA has only itself to blame. What Bungie understood is that the future
> will go through online gaming. You can't hope to survive or thrive while
> ignoring that aspect of it.
>
> Why doesn't anyone at EA understand this? As long as they continue to
> ignore the online playability of these games, they will continue to be
> worthless. Sooner or later, we'll want to play against the best in the
> world.
>
> NHL2006 will be where I officially throw in the towel on this title. And I
> was one of the few remaining loyalists.
>
Go with the Sega ESPN line of games from now on.
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