Is dedicated servers a must-have?

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#1 gamenux
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#2 Mark36111
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Difficult to say. On one hand, Team Fortress 2 is so laggy, it's unplayable right now. On the other, Halo 3 is probably the least laggy online game I've ever played on a console, and it uses user hosted servers. I guess it depends on the amount of data that is being transferred.

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its great but theirs no gaurentee theyll gona support the game for atleast 5 years.
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Should be if you're paying $50 a year.

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#5 Locke562
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They're certainly a very nice thing to have.
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#6 M0rph0_o
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yes you do for a perfect lag free online game

tobad 50$ a year for XBL doesnt get you that

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No.
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#8 XanaduTheBand
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yeah. they are. In fact, I don't understand why Ms won't make an option where you can use a 360 to run as a server as I KNOW people would buy them and set up dedicated servers to play HALO and such. Then there could be 50 person games easy with the 360 only running server code, but alas...it hasn't happened yet.
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#9 d_black
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For some games its a must. Gears of War begs for dedicated servers but sadly we have none.
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#10 KEM92
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glad resistance has that. LAG FREE. and if someone lags they are the only person lagging doesn't effect anyone else
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#11 crusher2002000
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Should be if you're paying $50 a year.

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#12 Zeliard9
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It'd be nice to feel like we were actually paying for something with the XBL Gold membership.
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#13 Hexagon_777
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Why not have both?
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#14 majadamus
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Paying 50 bucks a year, yes, it's a must have. It's ridiculous we don't have it already.
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#15 tonythestudent
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If you are paying for online then yes they are a MUST have imo.
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#16 The_Gamer81
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yes you do for a perfect lag free online game

tobad 50$ a year for XBL doesnt get you that

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yup and a FREE online service from SONY gets you just what you want!! Dedicated Servers. Thank you Sony or Thank you Game Companies.

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#17 casey7672
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It's nice to have. But it's more important that there's no lag one way or the other.