If they’re running infrastructure that hosts game servers, while keeping all that standardized and cheat-free, that might be a bargain at $15/mo or whatever it costs. But if they’re just providing match-making, listing game servers, all while hosting matches on consoles, they’re just taking your money.
They’ve always run the infrastructure to have voice chat parties, host your screenshots/video clips and run moderation for accounts and games within the infrastructure. Cheat-free is a high bar, but its going to be less likely on an Xbox Live only game than on a user hosted server inside a PC game.
That makes sense. I forgot about voice, and the global moderation/banning features are a decent feature for something that everyone else would have to solve (with varying efficacy).
Not an XBox or XBoL user.
If they’re running infrastructure that hosts game servers, while keeping all that standardized and cheat-free, that might be a bargain at $15/mo or whatever it costs. But if they’re just providing match-making, listing game servers, all while hosting matches on consoles, they’re just taking your money.
it might be a bargain… but actually they’re locking down hardware and software that you already paid for… so it’s a ripoff, not a bargain
i’d be fine with optional using their services.
btw, the game developers run the servers anyways.
They’ve always run the infrastructure to have voice chat parties, host your screenshots/video clips and run moderation for accounts and games within the infrastructure. Cheat-free is a high bar, but its going to be less likely on an Xbox Live only game than on a user hosted server inside a PC game.
That makes sense. I forgot about voice, and the global moderation/banning features are a decent feature for something that everyone else would have to solve (with varying efficacy).