I understand what dedicated servers are, but having the ability to play privately, boot players off your game. EA has their own dedicated server platform supporting BF3, and they implemented it at the expense of being able to easily matchmake game sessions with friends, introduced server queues, and cut out the…

Thanks for the thoughtful response, asshat.

So EA is trying to sell me on buying back the lobby and matchmaking features freely available on Xbox Live (and removed from the transition from Bad Company 2 to Battlefield 3)?

And what does that mean for the roughly 50% of American console owners who don't connect their systems to the internet?

I don't think that's true, and even if it is on occasion, their sales are just sick values and almost always worth waiting for.

Strike that, the other sidebar that reads: back in December is where it mentions the lack of a HDD. Still, it's only speculation. Seems like a huge mistake not to offer a hard disk out of the box.

Man, I was expecting nothing but fanboy hate to my comment. It's nice to see that other people are feeling the same way I do. I feel like I'm being treated like a sucker, and having recently discovered Steam (their sales) and the joys of hooking my gaming rig up to my bigscreen in the living room, I don't know if I…

Read the sidebar titled 'The Next Playstation At A Glance'. I find it hard to believe too.

Made me think of this:

Too bad that, according to this story anyway, you're not going to get a hard drive to download those games to, out of the box. And seeing Vita's Memory pricing shenanigans at launch, expect to get ripped off for what should be out-of-the-box functionality.

Sony clearly hasn't figured out that gamers want a unified service, not a locked off platform, when it comes to their media devices. Nobody cares about the device- they care about the functionality. Great technical specs are expected now, and they will be outdated within 18 months of the system's launch anyway, so…

Hey, I've been reading kotaku from the beginning. I began commenting back when you had to be invited to become a commenter, and have had a front row seat to the continued demise of it's integrity. My point is that saying 'it's just a blog' like that's some sort of justification for irresponsible journalism (or…

I hear you, and sorry for the sarcasm in my reply- skepticism is certainly a virtue.

Again, thank you for telling me what I already know. I am a big GB fan.

Gee Thanks, Captain Obvious. Kotaku is a blog. I guess that means they can do whatever they want and we should just stfu and swallow it whole. I don't really think so.

I know. Irony is usually lost on this crowd... along with sarcasm.

No kidding. I am absolutely savoring the irony of the kotaku audience's reactionary assumption about GB's inevitable compromise of journalistic integrity over this transaction, when the journalistic legwork involved in it's conveyance here is literally two sentences long and so obviously misleading it actually hurts…

Why is the guaranteed future solvency of a gaming outlet you know and love 'a sad day for games journalism', exactly?

To be fair, the above blurb and associated headline is possibly the most intentionally misleading way to frame this story imaginable.

Well stated.