I think 343 should reward players who buy map packs the same way Epic games does, which is giving dedicated servers to those who have the map packs. I am not sure if it would be reality, but it would and does encourage both buying the map packs as well as reward with better connection (usually).
Thoughts?
I thought only ranked gears 3 matches had dedicated servers?
Gears of war 3 is the first game to have dedicated servers for all multiplayer playlists. They also had dedicated DLC playlists.
The crimson map pack has its own playlist. The Halo game isn’t getting dedicated serves anytime soon.
> Gears of war 3 is the first game to have dedicated servers for all multiplayer playlists. They also had dedicated DLC playlists.
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> The crimson map pack has its own playlist. The Halo game isn’t getting dedicated serves anytime soon.
They don’t have for all playlists… I played with my friend without MP and it is not on a dedicated playlist. Maybe now because not many people play GOW3 anymore.
But hey, we can dream right?
Halo runs on a P2P system so there are no “servers”.
> Halo runs on a P2P system so there are no “servers”.
This is a good thing, right?
This way as long as people play the game will run? No threat of turning off the game like they did with Halo 2?
NO
not only are you penalizing/alienating anyone who didnt buy the dlc (which is a lot of people) you`re also forcing players to spend money just to have a lag-free game.
Gears of War has some really great ideas (horde ring a bell?) that I think could easily benefit halo aswell as many other shooters, however the idea of dedicated servers being given to people who purchased dlc ONLY is just flat-out wrong.
now if you were to give people an option in which they could buy dedicated servers for lets say 10 bucks then I might say ok.
btw the GOW community despised it aswell.
> NO
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> now if you were to give people an option in which they could buy dedicated servers for lets say 10 bucks then I might say ok.
NO!!! OH, YOINK NO!!!
Rent a Servers destroyed Battlefield 3 by dividing the population up way too much.
I never got into the GOW community… Always more of a secondary game for me. But yes, horde is GREAT.
I am just saying if 343i did introduce dedicated servers I would not be surprised if they used it as an incentive to buy DLC as Epic did. Not sure about buying dedicated servers either
> > NO
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> > now if you were to give people an option in which they could buy dedicated servers for lets say 10 bucks then I might say ok.
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> NO!!! OH, <mark>YOINK</mark> NO!!!
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> Rent a Servers destroyed Battlefield 3 by dividing the population up way too much.
Dude, did you really just type the word “Yoink”?
> NO
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> not only are you penalizing/alienating anyone who didnt buy the dlc (which is a lot of people) you`re also forcing players to spend money just to have a lag-free game.
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> Gears of War has some really great ideas (horde ring a bell?) that I think could easily benefit halo aswell as many other shooters, however the idea of dedicated servers being given to people who purchased dlc ONLY is just flat-out wrong.
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> now if you were to give people an option in which they could buy dedicated servers for lets say 10 bucks then I might say ok.
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> btw the GOW community despised it aswell.
The GOW community “hated” the servers because many of them don’t understand the purpose of them. They don’t decrease lag or improve connection. They only eliminate the host advantage. That’s it.
Also, all playlists are on the servers, and there is a specific gametype (Action Sack, basically) for people without DLC. However, because of inherently limited server capacity, you’re not guaranteed to always get a server game. What’s more, Ranked games take priority over Social games.
Personally, I was surprised 343 didn’t include dedicated servers from the start. Halo kind of needs them.