PS2 Online
The PS2 online experience sucks ass. The XBox does have this figured out much much better. I have to log in, and it’s been a couple of months since I last checked out the slow and garish home-page that Sony have. They’ve just upgraded the look and feel and I’m asked to log in again, with an alias this time, which I do not seem to have, and with a login name I can’t remember. The password recovery scheme is a joke. I’d like to meet the designer and beat them with a stick. Why are digits not allowed in the user-name? Why can I type them in the field then? UI mistakes I expect to see made by high-school hackers.
Thankfully you don’t have to use Central Station to actually play games. I’m pondering whether to get Hardware On-Line Arena, but the awful network code in SOCOM has made me wary. (SOCOM uses TCP for game-data transfer - network errors trigger TCP re-transmits, which cause laggy, jerky playing. It wouldn’t be so bad if they had decent compensation/prediction code, but they don’t - it plays like DOOM did in 1994).
1 comment November 30th, 2003