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2004 Good Year for Xbox
Voodoo Extreme has details from a Microsoft release about Xbox accomplishments in 2004. From the article: "Xbox Live online gaming service has set a new standard for online gaming with more than 1.4 million members around the world."
Xbox Live online gaming service has set a new standard for online gaming with more than 1.4 million members around the world.
It's a pretty low standard if you believe that. Microsoft seems to be giving preferential treatment to some games over others with regards to Live.
Originally with DDR Ultramix, DLC was supposed to be made available on a monthly schedule, and the first songpack was available at launch. The next one came three months later - apparently Microsoft requires a 30-day period to approve content before uploading it. The reasoning for this "approval" process baffles me, but even allowing for that, a 30 day period is outrageously long.
Anyway, packs 2-5 came out more or less on schedule, but the 6th one was delayed for several months because Microsoft just plain forgot about it. Konami's Hawaii studio had to harrass them several times before it finally went up at the end of the summer.
Enter Ultramix 2 - a lot of Canadian people were looking forward to it because they weren't able to get DLC for Ultramix, since it wasn't officially released in Canada due to licensing restrictions.
Songpack 7 was due out at launch, along with a DLC item unlocking two additional characters. The game launched in mid-November - SP7 was three weeks late, the characters are nowhere to be found (despite the DLC being finished), and Canadians are still in the dark. SP8 was due in early January, and Konami Hawaii tells us that it's been approved for 3 weeks now and still isn't up on the servers. Plus, the online rankings system is intermittently broken, and Microsoft has no idea why.
So, if this is the new standard, then it shouldn't be exceptionally hard to beat.
"Mod, mod, mod...and another troll bites the dust."
Since you're going to parse and "correct" a bloody PRESS RELEASE (I expect they get put up on Slashdot for their troll value), I'll inform you that "Dragon Warrior 7" has sold exactly ZERO copies in Japan. Perhaps "Dragon Quest 7" has done as well as you describe?
"Xbox Live online gaming service has set a new standard for online gaming with more than 1.4 million members around the world."
steam claims over 2.5 million unique users a MONTH (4.565 billion player minutes/month). Xbox live hits 1.4 million in its (already long) life and it's a new standard for online gaming? please.