Halo 2 Bug/Request Submission Thread

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Originally Posted by bum has knife

On the hot topic of LIVE though, I will say that I do believe in the platform. I'm lucky in that i've seen the future and I think its bright. Is version 1 a rough transition for staunch pc users? maybe, but i'll be very interested in seeing how you feel once its reached maturity.

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Are you saying that very big changes will be made to LIVE to make it more popular with PC gamers? I too see potential in it, but I really dislike some of the decisions made. I would support LIVE mostly if it weren't for user-hosted servers being gold-exclusive. That is something I really dislike right now, because it doesn't make any sense that we should be paying Microsoft to host servers on our own computer. I kow the LIVE service needs to be payed for somehow, but there are better ways to do it. Overall i think LIVE is a good concept and idea, but poorly done as of now and it has given me a bad first impression. I just hope some changes will come along in the implementation of LIVE rather than just adding in little features to make it look more valuble.

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Your joking right?

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I am not. Like I was saying, I have seen LIVE in a form that you have not yet. My comment was just a personal opinion about the future of the service, thats all. I understand how you feel about it right now compared to other services available on the PC. Naturally, Xbox Live had a better birth because it was on a console without much competition.

Not to seem demanding, but are you able to tell us anything about it or hint as to what sort of changes will be made? Big or small?

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Originally Posted by bum has knife

I am not. Like I was saying, I have seen LIVE in a form that you have not yet. My comment was just a personal opinion about the future of the service, thats all. I understand how you feel about it right now compared to other services available on the PC. Naturally, Xbox Live had a better birth because it was on a console without much competition.

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Either way you will have to pay otherwise there will be no Gold/Silver and it will not be able to go cross platform (Gold only) with the xbox.

Request: Compatibility with Hamachi. The only thing that will ever possibly make live an accepted service by PC gamers and have a bright future is if its 100% free, no silver, gold platinum bs. That's a hopeless wish if its coming from microsoft which is probably fixed on packing more useless novelty features into it and finding ways to ensure its forced onto pc gamers through windows like it is on the xbox instead.

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Originally Posted by Stealth

Oh and Bum has knife, you rock

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no, he stabs :eng101:

Also, the only reason I would really want Hamachi is to have true private games with friends back in the states, or for testing maps etc :(

I have faith in XBL and GFWL..
I see hamachi coming into play only because if they start getting pissed about custom content if we decide to create more then just maps in the future..

i dont really mind paying lol i have to for xbox anyway and i use the same account :)

You don't mind paying because you have a xbox, some of us don't. There are what two games that use live for pc? Why would I pay $50 just for 2 games and I only have one.

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Originally Posted by Kornman00

Also, the only reason I would really want Hamachi is to have true private games with friends back in the states, or for testing maps etc :(

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Same reason I want it. I want to be able to host normal closed games for testing maps. As simple as that, as hosting private online games have been stander in online pc games since quake... Neither I want to be robbed into paying for gold, nor do I want any of my fellow testers being robbed just to test maps in a closed server.