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I have to agree with the post actually.
The whole network is a load of fail (pardon the expression). I liked my PC gaming that way it was. Untouched by the ways of the console.
1) It takes skill to use a keyboard and mouse, but now we'll have to pit ourselves against players using Xbox controllers with their auto aim filth.
2) No game that comes out for Live and has the option to play with Xbox 360 players will ever take advantage of the true power a PC has to offer for the simple reason that it's unlikely we'll see a ported game with vasty superior graphics that can get the most out of a high end PC.
3) I like my dedicated servers. Not so much user created rooms when it comes to FPS. One reason is so everyone can have a fair playing field and not have to worry about being bridged out the game, or have other network related cheats used against them. A sub point here is that the whole system is focused on Americans. Not meaning to offend, but I do like to play against UK players in UK servers where I'm not at a 200-300+ms disadvantage every single game like in Halo 2.
4) It seems the trend is to dumb everything down, including the replacing of ping bars with colour bar charts that will tell you a 200ms ping is A.O.K. Wrong! It's not okay in an FPS. I blame console gaming for this. Oh, also the whole thing with system ratings because people can't be bothered to learn a small amount about hardware.
5) I don't really like having to pay a yearly fee to pay games I own online. This is not the way of PC gaming. I might understand more if it was optional to have access to hundreds of dedicated servers. But, we don't get that.
6) PC gaming is where to go for user created content, I can only see the Live system trying to stomp on that with all their run from the disc plans and so on.
7) I don't like having to sign into one network for all my games (I can see all MS published games doing this with Live). Heck, if I fail to renew my account in time, I've lost my name permanently (you can't recover your Live name if you fail to renew) and bye bye all my stats, friends etc!
I'm sure there are more points, but 7 is good to start.
[Edited on 05.21.2007 6:22 PM PDT]