• Jackthelad@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I’ve been playing the campaigns and a bit of multiplayer on Battlefront 1 on PS5 and it’s been absolutely fine.

    I’m not sure where all these complaints are coming from. Is the PC version a lot worse?

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      9 months ago

      From what I read on Steam: Three servers, 64 players max each. Embarrassingly miniscule for one of the best selling, best received Star Wars games of its time, if not of all time. You’d expect more than 192 people would buy your game on launch, especially something this big.

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        9 months ago

        That was as it launched. There are now a whole bunch of dedicated servers.

        People have got their knickers in a twist over nothing.

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          9 months ago

          Dude, imagine you buy a brand new car for a 5 person family and then as you arrive to drive it off the lot you find out its only got the two front seats… Launches like this are completely unacceptable.

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            9 months ago

            Yes, because that’s exactly the same thing.

            It was literally a few hours later that they added the dedicated servers and people could play online.

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              9 months ago

              …but not before launch? The game launched and they weren’t there? So they released a game and there were only three servers available? Hours later they added a bunch of servers? AFTER LAUNCH? Is there another way I can phrase this so you realise how stupid it is that you’re defending it?

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                9 months ago

                Game has online problems for the first few hours after launch. This has never happened before in the history of video games. 🙄

                Wasn’t Helldivers 2 almost impossible to play for the first month? Yet there wasn’t much anger about that. This has a problem for a few hours and it’s the worst thing that has ever happened. 😂

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                  9 months ago

                  I recall there being plenty of talk about Helldivers servers. About a month’s worth. Meanwhile I haven’t seen a single person say this is the worst thing that’s ever happened or that it’s never happened before with other games, just that releasing a multiplayer game and only having three servers available is absurd. That and the apparently poor port at least on Switch detailed in another comment.

                  Believe it or not, shit happening before doesn’t change anything. Shit’s still shit. And we all already know the only actual obstacle to ensuring a smooth multiplayer launch (assuming a competently made game, of course) is paying for enough servers to handle the initial surge. They just prefer not to spend that money and present a poor experience to customers who buy the game at launch instead, because fuck them right.

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                    9 months ago

                    Do you know if you start up the game now, there’s plenty of servers and it, you know, works?

                    Are you really so impatient that a problem for the first few hours gets you this het up?

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                    9 months ago

                    a multiplayer game

                    No.

                    Not *A * multiplayer game. A multiplayer STAR WARS game. And not just any multiplayer Star Wars game - no, the single best received Star Wars game of its kind in the last two decades, coupled with its prequel… And they estimated around 200 people to play it at launch.

                    Like.

                    What.

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            9 months ago

            Imagine just playing and enjoying a game, rather than forming your opinion based on an IGN article.