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[QUOTE="Heirren"]
Xbox live has been going downhill over the last 3 or 4 years. Regular PSN is better than it, no doubt.
Heirren
yeah...except everyone else is happy, xbox live has added more and more features then psn has...Loads of more features actually.How can you claim that everyone else is happy? While I haven't paid for it for the last year and a half, before that I had been a constant member of Live since the beginning. And as far as Xbox Live as a multiplayer medium, the quality has dropped in its very core feature. From my experience, going from LIVE to PSN was like going into a time machine and using xbox live, circa 2004--where it was more about the game. Street Fighter, KZ3, and MW2 are ALL better experiences on the PSN. I'd attribute some of it to the age demographic that occupies the respected platform. PS3 users tend to be a tad older than the average xbox user, and generally speaking, these older gamers just want to unwind and play some games.
I'm not even a fan of MW2, but in the time i've played it--I was NEVER able to get into a game that didn't have either some little kid screaming, or someone exploiting the game. I stopped play Halo3, a series I'm a borderline fanboy of, because of getting into games with constant modding/cheating. Imo, if I'm paying for something, I'd like part of my monetary contribution to microsoft to go to them supplying the service they advertise.
Facebook, Twitter, Last FM? THESE are key features for a GAMING service? That's lame. I'm willing to bet that users on this board could think of countless other ideas that would benefit the actual gaming experience, over a means to throw more ads in our faces.
I have been a part of xbox live since 2002 and the beta, I WAS there are the ground floor when they were building the service, I have had 2 accounts while using the service, my latest for 5 years, I have it paid till 1/20/2013. then you have the fact that the majority of games on ps3 still don't have the majority of peopel with mics, So your claims of user quality cannot be confirmed, when I was playing the mag beta for 4 months and then played the retail product still less then half the people in my matches would have mics...
and sorry no Street fighter a better experience because of the dpad on the 360 not being up to snuff, but that game has just as many rage quiters, trash talkers as the 360 version does. Killzone 3 as well *and look at the small amount of users that has now compared to 360 multiplayer games* MW2 no, the community is far larger on the 360 and the fact you haven't used the mute button is your problem not the services problem there are hacks and glitches galore on the ps3 version just like the 360 version and smack talkers galore as well.
The attitude and communcation of people is rarely tied to their age in online arenas. even the oldest can get pissed off and trash talk and harras. there are just as many hacks, and glitches on ps3 games as 360 multiplayer games, Killzone 3, Resistance fall of man 1 and 2..ect so please don't act like PSN is this magically cleaner service, I've gotten into many halo 3 games *and halo 3 is not known for hacks or cheaters like mw2* with out dealing with screaming kids, and Many MW2 games, and when I do come up to a person that bothers me? half a second and they are muted thats how fast it is to mute someone in these games.
Oh and you talk of facebook, fm...ect yet isn't Sony incorperating just as much of these things into its service? photo editing, upload, photo gallery..the 3.40 update was much of nothing except to enable plus features.
Microsoft has updated and added more features then sony has ever since the 360 and ps3 launchs ignoreing the 1 year headstart even, A completely new interface, tweaks, features. You keep claiming xbox live has gone down hill and I've been there since the start and its no worse then it ever was, you keep citing sources of cheating, and hacking when the ps3 on mw2 has just as many problems and there were even problems with kz3 and resistance 1 and 2...dedicated servers do not guard against hacks and glitches. all your problems seem to stem from users whom you can easily mute on xbox live *not so easy on ps3* and glitches and cheats...all of which bad users, and glitches and cheaters can be found on psn.
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