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Subject: Dedicated servers are not all they are cracked up to be.

Most of you guys want Halo Reach to have dedicated servers. As much as I think that would be great, I also know that there are several problems:

-People who live far away from these servers will experience lag.
-We can only play match making as long as Bungie wants to keep them running.
-Servers will have to be set up around the world, which would cost Bungie and Microsoft a lot of money.
-We can only play match making as long as Bungie wants to keep them running.

So by letting players host, people can play match making whenever they want, even if it is 10 years from now.

But trust me, I know how the play host system fails, but dedicated servers are not the answer. The answer is getting people to realize that this is a game and cheating won't prove anything.

Thank you and good night.

  • 06.21.2009 6:23 AM PDT

"It is impossible to prepare for and prevent a war at the same time"
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I agree. Dedicated servers does not correspond to no lag what-so-ever. In fact, in some cases, dedicated servers might make the lag worse, for a lot of people.

And data centers aren't exactly cheap. They would have to buy or rent the space to house those data centers and they buy the hardware, pay for labor to wire everything up, and then pay for maintenance until an undetermined time.

  • 06.21.2009 7:20 AM PDT

Hosting works fine; it's not idea, but it's the best they can do.

  • 06.21.2009 9:09 AM PDT

Exactly, now more people need to realize this.

  • 06.21.2009 1:03 PM PDT
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People have been asking for dedicated servers? That's a rare commodity, even in computer games.

  • 06.21.2009 1:05 PM PDT

And those servers can go down which would lead to some PO'd gamers. Also, does dedicate servers split players up? As in two people will never play each other because they play on different servers? Just a thought...

  • 06.21.2009 1:07 PM PDT

The way it is now is fine

  • 06.21.2009 1:12 PM PDT

I believe so.

Posted by: CivilTugBoat
And those servers can go down which would lead to some PO'd gamers. Also, does dedicate servers split players up? As in two people will never play each other because they play on different servers? Just a thought...

  • 06.21.2009 1:14 PM PDT

Posted by: TW InKoGnIto
I believe so.


Then that's completely stupid and takes away the concept of a MM community. No servers please lol. Host system has it's flaws, but that's just stupid.

  • 06.21.2009 1:17 PM PDT

If only there was a way to merge the host system with the server system.

That way, there would be no host mannipulation.

Posted by: CivilTugBoat
Posted by: TW InKoGnIto
I believe so.


Then that's completely stupid and takes away the concept of a MM community. No servers please lol. Host system has it's flaws, but that's just stupid.

  • 06.21.2009 1:27 PM PDT