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Has Online gaming improved 'at all' over the last year? OXCGN takes a serious look.

December 11, 2008 in Blog comments 11

OXCGN writer takes another look at the year on-line. Has it improved, lost its appeal with the older gamers, or become a sespit for maniacs in general?

Come over, have a read, and jump into the poll and air your views on the whole on-line gaming thing, especially XboxLive, which can be a right pain at the best of time.

Exactly a year ago I wrote about the problems with online gaming over Xbox Live and I want to revisit that topic to ask if anything has changed in that time. With suggestions that Microsoft is set to try and end a lot of the abuse on Live, probably this coming year, it is a good time to ask the online gamers out there what they think.

xbox_new_expWe have a poll for you to voice your opinion after my article’s ‘reprise’, and feel free to comment in the comment box. Is Live any better than it was a year ago with regards to abuse? Have you learned to avoid the abuse over Live, for example by playing only with those on your
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    Godem Dec 12, 08
    has online gaming changed much? Yeah its gotten worse, now every game has matchmaking which SUCKS!
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    Immortal Kaim Dec 12, 08
    agreed, Xbox Live users outside the US are seen as second rate users, matchmaking is a flawed system without the option to look for 'Local matches'.
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    Arikardo Dec 12, 08
    Indeed matchmaking does fail, but can be handy sometimes.

    And i find the majority of the LIVE community intolerable, even the PS3's online starting to slowly turn that way. Just play a game of COD4 and you get kids who think they own the world because they are trash talking you over a mic.

    Its crazy, someting needs to be done about online, such as having zones you can enter when you are a certain age or something. Atleast age restricted zones would stop alot of us serious gamers getting abuse every two seconds.
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      Play ISDF Dec 12, 08
      The problem with age restricted zones is that it's far too easy to get around it. I mean come on, who can't fake their age by tossing on another 7 years on top of their date of birth? Isn't exactly hard. Still, at least with more and more games these days, new games are attempting to give quick options for players to mute certain people. It's not a perfect solution but at least it stops you hearing them screaming out "YOU *bleep*ING HAAXXOOORRR!" as you kill/beat them.
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    EOM Bassist Dec 12, 08
    That's a good point. But something definitly needs to be done about it, I know a lot of people that are put off by 10 year olds getting lucky kills on you and then never dropping it an hour or so later. As far as matchmaking goes, let's NOT go there... There needs to be more lobby's on online games now, as I think it was Team Fortress that failed in that respect.
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    Gameroz Dec 13, 08
    Well in the article is a link to another article that shows that Microsoft probably are going to do something: but I bet a lot of people won't like the "big brother" censorship approach. Here's the link: http://xboxoz360gamer.com/2008/10/21/microsoft-live-abuse-to-end/
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      Slumpy monkey Dec 13, 08
      How is it a Big brother aproch? It just doesnt transmit swear words.

      Which is a Plus IMO, because its annoying having some fat kid with 3 kills going "comeon you fags, my god this team is so shit, omg everyone on this team is a *bleep*ing noob, your shit. etc"
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    XboxOZ360 Dec 13, 08
    I hate XboxLIVE in Australia, and if it wasn't for the fact I need it for the site, I wouldn't be using it as a gold member.

    The thing is, Australia (and many other nations) are small potatoes when compared to Nth America and Europe. We have a less than 2% of the market share for games, probably below 1.5% actually, which is abysmal for any company.

    SO companies do NOT invest more money in areas where they get less returns for their investments. We may well have the highest gamers per-capita, but when that number is less than 100k, and I mean LESS than, then you can understand why companies don't invest 10's of millions to get better services.

    Even if every Australian gamer bought 2 of every console and bought 2 of every game published, it wouldn't raise the overall % figures all that much to warrant a huge influx of investment.

    It is simply a sad fact of having such a HUGE geographical spot on the globe, with just 23 million ppl spread right across it . .that population can fit into one single European country with room to spare.
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      Play ISDF Dec 13, 08
      It's just so awesome yet depressing to be an Aussie.
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    Dramon Knight Dec 14, 08
    Online game is too advanced now, and too many people overuse stuff and try too hard.

    Not everyone can play and enjoy anymore, either because they're not as good or because people are insulting them due to their skill. :\
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    StarJet Dec 27, 08
    Online gaming has changed. For the worse? Yes, but also for the better. Compare older games with online features with newer ones and you'll see. But of course, not much was done last year.
    Other than the whole "*bleep*" situation.

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