So like many gamers out there I too went a bought SOCOM: Confrontation. And Like others I had no luck in getting to play it on the release day. But I did in fact get to play it the next day. I was booted from the servers like many other people, and had a few freezing issues. At which point I basically put the game down. I learned from the message boards that the game work fairly well during non-peak playing times. I then tried it the Thursday morning before work, and ended up playing five suppression games in a full 8X8 room. With no disconnecting, or freezing. I came home for lunch, and the same thing happened. And once more when I came home for the day, only that time I was booted from games, or had freezing issues.

So with that people are complaining about the server issues. Something I can understand, and in many ways sympathize. But with games getting bigger and more complex I think people need to learn to lighten up. They complain about the servers, well, they are temporarily fixed at the moment. Meaning they are stable, but don't go jumping all into the same channel, and then on a 16X16 game, and expect it to run smooth. Of course it's going to crash, and bug out. There needs to be some level of patience with games. Especially online only ones, these games are so complex. Not every developer is going to know what they are doing this early in the online gaming. And beta testing, and quality control are only going to go so far. It's very different when you have 100,000 people logging into a game at once as opposed to a couple 1,000.

Another thing that I see on the boards that really just kills me. The people who are so fed up with it. They come on the boards ranting a raving, and saying how the rest of us. I'm guessing those of us who can get the game to play. How we have low standards, or we need to see the light, in that the game will never be fixed. For one, which goes hand in hand with the previous paragraph. Find channels that have between 100 and 200 people in it. And stay away from the 16X16 games. I have had friends on the PSN confirm it works, and couple off the message boards. Then they complain about how there clan stuff doesn't work, or they can't play with there friends because the invite feature won't work. Put the room and Channel in you comment on the XMB and they can find you. Most players seem to do this already. Sure it take a little more effort but it works none the less.

Lastly is the ranked scores and the leader boards. Ok this is really the only part that I don't have an answer for. I personally don't care about that stuff. It's only the main game I want. And I know there will always be someone better than me. And I can live with that. I just wish people didn't put so much need in seeing there standings. Then again, maybe all this complaining is simply that. Complaining for the sake of doing so. Do what cha like man. I know I will.