- ClearOrangeZero
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Posted by: MR E0S
Let's use your logic for another scenario.
How much money do you think car manufacturers spend putting things like horns, headlights and seatbelts into cars? But why?
You wouldn't need a seat belt if you'd just be safe defensive driver.
Why install headlights when you can go out and buy a handheld spotlight?
Why install a horn when you can go to a freaking dollar store and buy one of those fog horns people use when their out on the lake?
In all three of those instances, consider the cost to the manufacturer to install those things.. compared to what it would cost for you to handle the issue yourself. Except in this case, they transfer that cost to the consumer.
I really was wondering when someone would bring this argument up, but you know as well as I do, that it's stupid -blam!- argument.
The argument is stupid, because it's in their best interest to provide their customers with a better service. A server browser is a better service than matchmaking.
So it cost them a million dollars to put this in the game? That's highly doubtful considering they are a group of talented programmers and the technology behind server browsers isn't terribly new or anything like that. So it's not like they have to think outside of the box and make something entirely revolutionary. If they really need help. Tell them to go talk to GearBox, the ones who did the PC port for crying out loud.Hey dude, your economic ignorance is showing. Car manufacturers started to put in those things because they had to compete with other companies that successfully implemented and profited on it. As of right now, everyone who has tried to bring this over to consoles has failed to reach the success of bigger titles that have stuck to MM. The closest thing to success would be BF3; funny thing is, as soon as they started handing out servers, Reach surpassed BF3 in terms of population.
[Edited on 09.10.2012 4:41 PM PDT]