Mary Jo Foley of ZDnet.com writes, "Whether you think the recently proposed class action lawsuit over Xbox Live service holiday outages is crazy or justified, there are undeniable problems with Microsoft's back-end Live infrastructure that Microsoft needs to address."
The Nerd Stash: "Developed by Treyarch Studios, Call of Duty: Black Ops games are some of the best in the series in terms of gameplay, story, and -- of course -- Zombies."
Black ops 4, because it was the last cod of duty I was able to dominate with a +2 k/d ratio. Before all the freaking cheating started to happen. It was nice catching people off guard and shooting at them first and getting the kill. Unlike now, where I shoot people first, but they gun me down with less hits, less time, literally feels like they can kill me in a split second. At times, they are able to run away after me shooting them way more than necessary, yet, the second I'm spotted, I'm dead, there's no me running away to cover. They can do cartwheels, summersaults, backflips and gun you down perfectly. They can shoot you across the map with perfect accuracy. They can jump around like morons and gun you down without even having to correct their aim. They have superman split second perfect reactions. That's the best way to describe it, everything they do is spot on perfect. They can spam and spray (no praying) their gun from far away, because they have no recoil or bullet spread. It always feels like I have to aim and also correct my aim when moving around, while these pricks don't have to do the same.
And yes, I know how to play fps games. I dominated many fps games like: Resistance 1&2, kz 2&3, Socom, MAG, Crysis, Gotham City Impostors, blitz brigade etc. all with 2-4 k/d ratio. Kz2 (lag input controls) and resistance (no aim assist in resistance) being the hardest and were the games I reached either close to a 3 k/d ratio or above.
I truly got to enjoy blacks ops 4 and got my money's worth out of it. Afterwords, I would either stop playing cod games after a while, because of the cheating, or would skip buying cod games for a year or two before buying another.
BLG writes, "Do you ever get that feeling after you’ve finished a game that you just wish there was more? Or do you spend years hoping and praying for a sequel that never comes?
This list compiles some of the top games we desperately want to get a sequel. Please give us more of our favorite games!"
Would love to see a sequel to the 7th gen FPS campaign SINGULARITY from RAVEN Software..
GB: "We take a look at 15 amazing games that had the perfect length."
Pretty good list. Botany Manor would be the newest addition that encapsulates that title.
when you are paying for a service it becomes a problem. A single game is not going to be sufficient perhaps a month free/extra to compensate for all those days when people couldn't play.
something like 1-2 million people signed up within what 3 weeks? no one can predict that and they we're caught unprepared last i checked other companies we're caught unprepared too when alot of people logged onto play one game.
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Hmmm. Problems. Let's see I have had XBL for more than 5 years and besides the little bit of down time I had for the holidays (4 hourse for me) Xbox Live has added hundreds of continued excitement and fun for me and my family. Obviously, there have been people that has had some down time. This is unfortunate. You know the cable company does not give you any added bonus when the cable goes out. Anyways, MS put out some top hits this year, especially Halo 3 (well as far as nline gaming). I think they ever estimated that this many people would buy a 360 and sign for XBL. MS stated in a note that they met their XBL fiscal goal 6 months early. There were 7 million plus people just playing Halo 3 on XBL the other night. It would have been nice if they anticipated this and made sure there servers and infrastructure was ready for this, but they did not. I think something simliar happend when Gears of War was released. I think the game increased XBL account by 40% and they had some XBL issues for a couple of days.
XBL is a very strong online service, argubaly the best, but MS needs to fix any problems with there online service. Once they fix it they should make sure it does not happen again, but they also need to take the surge of accounts as a compliment...