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Sega Putting Chromehounds Servers To Sleep

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Xbox 360 mech sim Chromehounds is about to have its online component put to sleep. Sega will be taking the game's multiplayer portion behind the barn, hopefully ending its life with the first shot.
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Published: 102 days 8 hours ago | News | Xbox 360
 
 

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PLAYSTATIONGENRATION - 102 days 9 hours ago
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it still has a decent community..its a okay game same the online will be gone
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v1c1ous - 102 days 6 hours ago
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1.1 - well..
we have till january 6 2010 before it's shutdown. we better pray a solution is found before then!
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Maddens Raiders - 102 days 4 hours ago
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LOL
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Godmars290 - 102 days 9 hours ago
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2 - This is why MS should have dedicated servers. Especially considering that people pay for online.
At the very least they should be being people the option of using their own PCs as severs.
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00 - 102 days 8 hours ago
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2.1 - They
do have dedicated servers, but it's up to the devs if they want to use them or not.
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Slinkey - 102 days 6 hours ago
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2.2 - @Godmar
This game is a mmo of sorts so using dedicated servers wouldn't help very much :P!
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GiantEnemyCrab - 102 days 6 hours ago
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They do have dedicated servers but this is a SEGA game not an MS game. This is the same as PSN (for example), it is up to the developers who make the games to use dedicated servers. That would be crazy expensive if MS hosted every game released on the system with their own dedicated boxes.

Maybe this new X-Server thing MS is doing will allow folks to still play it on a smaller scale?
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v1c1ous - 102 days 6 hours ago
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2.4 - uhh godmars
dedicated servers IS the reason why CH is being shutdown. Sega hosted their own. xbox live is a player-to-player service in itself, but Sega decided to pay for their own servers.

like EA, they apparently couldn't justify the cost of running the server with dwindling players online and decided to shut it down.

i really dont know why Sega and MS dont get together and released a patch to maybe implement a player-to-player option to at least have the ability to play with others online, like you know, 99% of all xbox games on xbox live -_-

not one of Sega, or EA's, best decisions
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Halo3 MLG Pro - 102 days 5 hours ago
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2.5 - Godsmar,
*facepalm*
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jib - 102 days 4 hours ago
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2.6 - @GEC
aren't x-servers only for section8? curious to know if it'll be something implemented in future 360 games
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NaiNaiNai - 102 days 8 hours ago
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Still waiting on CH2. T_T
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edwineverready - 102 days 7 hours ago
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4 - NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
My life is over i play this every day.
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HyperBear - 102 days 6 hours ago
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5 - wow
well i was lookin at my 360 library and thinking about putting this game in again and giving it another go....guess not anymore:(
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Xi - 102 days 6 hours ago
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6 - biggest problem with dedicated servers.
is that they all close down eventually.
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FragMnTagM - 102 days 6 hours ago
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7 - It's a shame really,
i still play this game at least once every month. Well f@#$ you too SEGA!
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GiantEnemyCrab - 102 days 6 hours ago
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One of the few down sides of dedicated servers. When the company decides to pull the plug it's game over man.

It's had a good 3 year run. One of the only compelling mech games this gen.
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betrayed gamer - 102 days 6 hours ago
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i thought microsoft used pvp servers, so this game is seperate from it?
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v1c1ous - 102 days 6 hours ago
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9.1 - yes
Sega, and EA, sometimes host their own servers. the downside to that is that once they shutdown a server, the online portions of the game gets nixed (i.e burnout 1+2 etc)
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Obama - 102 days 6 hours ago
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I wonder how Sega and MS split up the LIVE fee?
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v1c1ous - 102 days 6 hours ago
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10.1 - they didnt
Sega paid for the server out their own pocket. i assume from the DLC that's sold.
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aWarNoob1 - 102 days 6 hours ago
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11 - First the Dreamcast now This.
Ahhhhh SEGAAAAA!!!!!!!
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