Rickenslacker said:
Man, I haven't been happy with P2P since I moved on to real servers in PC games in 1998! The fact that it's P2P, let alone a paid service, is ridiculous. Some people (myself) take it to play a game they can't play anywhere else, even under less than ideal circumstances, but saying everything's "fine the way it is" and there's "no need to change it" when there's massive room for improvement across the board is silly.
When I say "it's fine the way it is", I mean it in terms of where PSP and console gaming is right now and the progress that mas been made in the past few years. P2P on consoles is in a constant state of improvement and growth.
Ultimately geographical limitations and physical connections will always present unavoidable complications and not even dedicated servers can solve those issues.
Would dedicated serves improve the current Reach environment? Maybe. Maybe some people would have a better experience. Most people wouldn't notice and then there's the number of folks whose experiences would be worsened. There would be additional costs to introduce and maintain the system and I think it would be difficult to justify it.
I heard Gears 3's use of dedicated servers being used here as a shining example. I rented the game out and tried some multiplayer and honestly couldn't tell if they were using dedicated servers or not. Made little to no difference to me. I suspect most players would be similarly ignorant.
