Did you forget what the B stands for?

by narcogen , Andover, Massachusetts, Wednesday, March 13, 2013, 04:31 (4061 days ago) @ Claude Errera

Do not be blinded by your nut-hugging fanboydom for Bungie.. A company as huge as EA couldn't even manage to pull this off, why would Bungie be able to?

EA has a history of terrible online launches, no one was really surprised this time, just this time it got a lot of press because of the "always-online" functionality. Bungie on the other hand has had no problems with their online game launches, while Microsoft had problems with Halo 4 day one.

"No problems"? I guess you weren't around for the launch of the Halo 3 Beta. :)

I don't know if EA ever talked about numbers, but I have a feeling the H3 beta was quite a bit bigger in scope than the SC5 beta.

As for the rest... I think there's a principle involved in Cody's objection that can't be overriden by trust in Bungie or distrust of EA. It's a question of what the online requirement is for. If coop is optional and not mandatory-- as it is in both of these games-- what is the requirement for?

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