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Confirmed: NO PC Vs 360 servers
I'm seeing a lot of mis-informed people still arguing and waving their e-peens around about PC vs 360 controllers for Huxley.
Just to be clear it's been confirmed in the latest round of interviews at GDC that Webzen does not plan to implement the ability for PC vs 360 players.
From the IGN article:
"There's no cross-platform play, but both systems should get the same game when all is said and done." (emphasis added by me)
From the Warcry article:
"He also noted that they will likely try to keep the 360 and PC players largely separate, although some limited cross platform play is anticipated on the cooperative side. The emphasis for the PC version is clearly online PvP, while on the 360, they hope to put more detail into the single-player/cooperative aspects of the game."
From the 1UP article:
"Servers will support up to 5,000 people each, and it is undecided whether Huxley will offer a subscription-based or microtransaction-focused business model. Plus, according to Jason Wonacott, Webzen's director of corporate communications, "the developers are planning for limited cross-platform functionality between PC and 360."
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It says in the 1UP article that there would be subscription or microtransactions. Correct me if I'm wrong but microtransactions is when everyone gets to play for free and if you pay, there will be additional features for the payers. Right?
Yeah, it's usually in the form of the option of buying equipment or items for a few dollars. Some games allow limited timed stat increases as well.
The asian market is full of games like that and it seems to be doing well. The downside is of course the misbalance of payed players having an advantage.
Lucky for the 360 users.
Us PC gamers would have embarassed them way to much and put the "controllers are better than mouse and keyboard" theory to rest.
Viva La PC GAMERS!
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What do you mean safer, seems like they dumbdown console versions of games. Why is that so, consolers are not a bunch of morons they are as hardcore of gamers as pc gamers. I am both btw, I have a pc and a console for gaming.
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Mid-informed? Please these people who have developed this game have given us conflicting information time and time agian. We can only go by what we read and if what we read changes from one point to the next then how are we to know the truth.
Now if this current information is correct it sounds like the devs have decided to finally see the light and listen to what tons of people have been telling them. That PC vs 360 players CAN NOT work.
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Mid-informed? Please these people who have developed this game have given us conflicting information time and time agian. We can only go by what we read and if what we read changes from one point to the next then how are we to know the truth.
Now if this current information is correct it sounds like the devs have decided to finally see the light and listen to what tons of people have been telling them. That PC vs 360 players CAN NOT work.
It was players that assumed that PC and 360 players could play together. How can you blame them for your bad assumptions?Mid-informed? Please these people who have developed this game have given us conflicting information time and time agian. We can only go by what we read and if what we read changes from one point to the next then how are we to know the truth.
Now if this current information is correct it sounds like the devs have decided to finally see the light and listen to what tons of people have been telling them. That PC vs 360 players CAN NOT work.
It was players that assumed that PC and 360 players could play together. How can you blame them for your bad assumptions?No turbo it was not just "players" that assumed that PC and 360 players could play together.. Go back and read some articles on this game and see how developers and people that worked on this project were telling us how PC players would be able to go agianst 360 players.. Why in the hell do you think people where debating this since early last year on this site and others....
The decision to not let 360 players fight agianst PC players is new, stop acting like you knew it all along.
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second off i greatly hope that they dont turn the game into an item shop (microtransactions) because that would just kill the game for me, the whole "those who have more money or are willing to spend it on virtual property win" mentality just completely aggros me
It will be one OR the other, you wont be paying a monthly fee and as well have to buy items and stuff.
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i wouldnt care either way.
i will be playing with my PC (dont own an Xbox anyway). i will be playing whether its subscription based or that pay for cool stuff one (which i wont use). hopefully this will turn out alot like the battlefield series where the difference between the leet players and the new ones is small enough so people have a chance of killing others.
as for the keyboard and mouse V Xbox controller. i do believe the keyboard and mouse combo is faster which in certain situations is useful. but like a previous post said Xbox users can have keyboards and mice too.
oh and one other thing this isnt the first game that will pit Xbox users against PC users AoC will and its combat is almost FPS.
MMO wish list:
-Changeable worlds
-Solid non level based game
-Sharks with lasers attached to their heads
that is pretty weird that they aren't merging the servers since Microsoft is on this big push to merge PC and 360 gamers. Too bad Webzen didn't do it because that would have been so sweet