02-15-2007
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|  MS: “Halo 2 matchmaking should be in all games”
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People have been saying it for years: Halo 2’s matchmaking was the best ever seen in an online game and still is to date. Saints Row gave it a good go, but it just didn’t work quite as well. Even hardened Halo haters admit that the matchmaking does work well. And when an MS employee says himself it should be in all games for the 360, you know not everyone is wrong.
Speaking at the DICE Summit in Las Vegas last week, Microsoft’s Head of Game Development for Microsoft Game Studios Phil Spencer gave a couple of answers to a couple of questions on the issue of matchmaking:
“As a publisher, that’s our job, to take code, encapsulate it up and ship it off to other people, not because they can’t figure it out but because there are other things on the schedule and if we can help other people by handing out pieces of code, pieces of technology, we should. I think what we really do is create a baseline for what to expect from first party games”.
Bungie’s Halo 2’s matchmaking code hasn’t been shared amongst developers. Why not?
Spencer: “Bungie spent a lot of time working out their matchmaking system. Forget about what platform you’re playing on, when you play Halo 2, you understand how that matchmaking system works; you’re playing with your friends, ranked with the playlist. It’s a very innovative system and it should be across all 360 games…definitely all [applicable] first party 360 games,”
So what about Gears of War then? It could have been the perfect game for a matchmaking system.
“The Epic scenario and why we don’t have that code in Gears of War is really more of a scheduling issue than the will to share the code with them, or help them add that feature to the game, because it’s clearly a great feature in online shooting play. For us, it was just a matter of getting this game done in time in order to get the game to come out when it needed to come out.”
Personally I don’t have a problem with the Gears matchmaking system, but I know that for others, it simply isn’t good enough. If Microsoft can push this idea through and encourage more developers to include the Halo net code, then things could suddenly improve a lot for the online 360 games, in a very positive way.
Thanks geekinabox for submitting.
| Well i personally agree with this.
What do you guys think? |
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