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"PSO on Xbox..."

Phantasy Star Online will be coming to the Xbox. It will use the Xbox Live online gaming network and the communicator.

Movie (IGN):

http://xboxmovies.ign.com/xbox/video/psoxbox.asf

I am hoping that the Xbox version of Phantasy Star Online will be hacker proof. MS are investing a lot of money into the Xbox Live service and it will be super secure. Communications between servers will be encrypted with as password being required to log onto the Xbox Live system. Although hacking the Xbox is possible, it sure isn't going to be as easy as just sticking an Xploder disc into your Xbox. All save game files are encypted so you'll need to get past that. To run a unsigned disc you will need a mod chip which cost in the reagon of $100 plus soldering 30 points onto your Xbox (although a chip with only 12 solder points has been developde now). If you do get past all of that then you have Xbox Live's server security to consider. Xbox PSO won't be on Sega's servers, it'll be on msfts. This will most likely but updated at even a hint of anyone bypassing them. MS can afford to monitor the Xbox Live service 24/7.

I personally am all for a cheat free PSO. I do however know people who would be upset at such a thought (mostly my friends who have a PSO clan). Do you feel hacking actually adds anything worthwhile to the game? In my opinion, absolutley not. Hacking has virtually ruined PSO and it has made it dangerous to hang around in lobbies and play in open games. It has also ruined any sense of acheivement and recognition players get from finding/earning rare equipment as about a million other players are using the same item which they obtained using their "skils". In fact, I don't even know how many of my items which I recieved from other players are hacked and also makes me question any player with a high level. So, to sum it up, hacking has ruined of of the greatest games of all time. Morons.

The other interesting thing is voice communication. This will be quite a lot different to chatting via keyboard. I wonder if it'll change the way people behave towards each other. With the Xbox Communicator you can just choose to mute annoying people. I think it will be quite good for helping shy people communicate more. You won't have much choice unless you just ignore everyone.

Any thoughts on this?
LF.

Your Honour wrote:
> Sounds good to me mate!
>
> It'll give me chance to whip you all at Online PGR as well :-D

I think my speciality will be mech games and probably FPS too. ;-) I'm pretty good at RPG's as well. ;-p

while were all waiting for the GC/xbox versions, are there any people who own the DC version who want to meet me online and form a team, chat, etc? If you do then leave your PSO name in the thread I've created or e-mail it to me and tell me what day(s) you want to meet up, I'm online at 9:00pm every night on Dione block 4 lobby 1 most of the time and if i'm not i'm usually in a game, my chracter is called Dark Avenger.

thanks for reading :)

slik ~_~

Sounds good to me mate!

It'll give me chance to whip you all at Online PGR as well :-D

Actually YH we could probably get an SR team together for quite a few games online. :-) Especially the likes of Unreal Championship, Mech Assault and Halo 2. ;-)

Your Honour wrote:
> Careful er-no, the list of Xbox games you're looking forward to is
> getting longer by the day!
>
> :-D

Whose to say that he's not getting the Gamecube version! :-P

I didn't play it too much online because of the cost, but as soon as I get broadband, I'll be online with it as much as I can!

We'll have to set up some sort of SR Team, if we can. It would be nice if the Xbox version could handle more than 4 players per team, that way all of us could get involved.

I really liked this game on the Dreamcast so I'm definatly looking forward to the X-Box release. I had one of those double sabers on the DC version. That weapon got me loads of attention online. ;-))

Careful er-no, the list of Xbox games you're looking forward to is getting longer by the day!

:-D

Your Honour wrote:
> In PSO you only have 4 players per squad, so you'll only hear three
> other people.

Looks like I can play it then. :-D

In PSO you only have 4 players per squad, so you'll only hear three other people.