And now this fucking shit. As if I didn't hate EA enough, they come along and take a huge sweaty dump in my face. Thank you.

It makes no sense whatsoever, hyping up a game solely based on COOP, and then region locking it. It's like seeing porn for the first time, and thinking 'hey this looks fun' and then getting your dick chopped off.

If they don't fix this, oh so help me god.

cdr

Chef

Are you serious? Guys like you are ruining my every multiplayer-shooter experience by assuming we are (still) Nazis over here. Get some education, fool.

R3nko

Witzbold

Of course, if you want to reduce lag 'n such, you should implement a player option to only play with a particular region. This isn't just consoles - I have 2 copies of Hellgate because the Asia version only allows playing on Asian servers(server service agreements figure into the retail price....ugh), and I want to play with friends in the US. Lame.

@-EDGE-: Asia to US works fine for PS3 version. Dunno about PAL/Euro compatibility, since I don't have friends there.

Chef

kazooie

EA's Burnout Paradise (released in january, made from a different team in-house) allows multi-region multiplayer, and even with 8 people in the room, the games usually run flawlessly.

Bungie had one of the biggest server loads EVER with Halo 3, yet you could still play 16 player BTB with Yanks without a hitch.

So why can't EA do it for a 2 player game? LAZINESS and INCOMPETENCE from whichever house made this one. The game itself is glitchy, and the network code follows suit.

Juganawt

Mr.SithNinja

Considering that England is way smaller than the states if this continues it would make finding games very hard - A cardinal sin with a game that spouts online co op as its main reason for existence.

Like people said earlier on this thread, regional servers should be optional, not enforced. EA have lost a potential sale from me on this one. I was already worried that local network play was mucked up but this just takes the biscuit.

EdwinJ85

rockmanjoey

STOP THE MADNESSSSSSSSSS!!!!

retronaut

Cenobia

Stefanten

....No singing during battle now... :( Army of Two!!! Why hast thou forsaken me??!?!?!?!?!

Pandamanda

Witzbold

Why the FUCK are we paying a monthly fee for 1) No dedicated servers on 99% of the games, 2)There are absolutely zero 24/7 ranked server with each map on rotation on any game on xbox360.

I was absolutely confused after PC gaming for 7-8 years then hopping over to live and paying a fee to play what I used get for free.

Some of it is ok, Dashboard is easy of use and rarely I get any outages. Great service and it does the job.

But where are my fucking 24/7 maps, or at least the choice of choosing a map I want to play.

I thought I was doing something wrong in Halo 3 and COD4 when I had zero options to choose the maps I want to play. Maybe I still am missing something, but I was expecting game lobbies a la every single motherfucking PC game that has multiplayer enabled. Xbox live went 2 steps forward in console-online gaming and got stuck in pre-Doom IP days.

Fyren

redfoxx

I would've liked to know this beforehand, considering the game is pretty much puke on shit offline.

Sunjammer

I did find the game amusing though, but I can agree with some who might feel the price tag is a bit steep for what we get.

Granted I think I got my funs worth out of it so far. :D

Witzbold

rmeehan17

Put me in the game coach!

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Lanowar

Witzbold

cdr

I found this out the hard way.

Black Arts Viper

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I was hoping for more freedom. Plus Im sad that in SP there were no jeep or tank driving while they had it in MP. :x

The stupid hovercraft was a bit boring thats why. Plus I WANTED TO SHOOT THE FUCKING GUN, not drive. :x

Witzbold

The More You Know......
when ever you play an EA game on live your always connecting to eas servers to play the game.so unlike the rest of live which is p2p with ea games you first have to connect to EA.

Truepatriot

Witzbold

B1ooDshOt

I mean hell Ive played through the game 5 times now by myself on all difficulty levels. Am at around 780? APs also.

Witzbold

nomadder

Poison

I liked the idea of extensive weapon customisation, but in this day & age the only genre which could possibly get away with region locking for reasons of latency are MMOGs (and quite a few don't).

Cheers for saving me £40, Mark.

Jonax

greeble

Totally ridiculous not to have worldwide play.

Contra666

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Modus_Operandi

Also, no offence intended to our American cousins who are just as sick of trash talking 12 year old boys as I am, but there seem to be notably less trash talking 12 year old boys playing Army of Two than i might have expected. :-)

@Hirmetrium: Lack of local co-op? Theres split screen on the 360 version at least. What other local co-op is there are you missing?

ManiacFive

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rotcepsurt

Originally when EA wanted to do multi player on 360, they wanted to use their own servers, Microsoft didn't like that, but once EA withheld multi player from Madden one year they changed their tune and reached a compromise. Since EA mainly just wanted the marketing data, Microsoft let them take that data if users agreed to EA's own EULA.

So now EA has our personal/usage data, doesn't have to use their own servers (maybe), but I am guessing the price for all this is no cross border play. :( Aww. So it's not that they can't do it, they just don't want to sacrifice their bread and butter. Would upset the shareholders.

So blame EAs greed for this one.

(lots of this post is a guess, correct me if i'm wrong)

Android8675

PatATC

Granted though I have had a game where lag did cause AI to be kicking my ass and I could hardly damage them. :x

Witzbold

Machines

I think the biggest reason people play multiplatform games on the 360 is familiarity. It's been out almost twice as long as the PS3, it's had the better games so far, people are just used to playing it.

For me and my buddies, there's a couple minor things that nudge us towards the 360, most notably being the controller and the interface/functionality, both of which we like more on the 360.

But by and large, I think it's just that people tend to stick with things in their comfort zone.

Bishmon

Its definitely not a very playstation brand type of game, thats for sure

Of course i think that does fit with the playstation not being as closely linked with multiplayer.

Things are changing however, Warhawk being a dedicated online game and Wipeout Pulse on the PSP using the PSN.

Accordion

This is just a really crap, cheap move by EA to save on costs. If the game had local play I'd buy it, but this IMO is just a nail in the coffin of what could of been a great game.

Vegas 2 is out in a few weeks. At least the co-op in that will be a blast.

Hirmetrium

Indeed the title itself should have been a bit cheaper, but when I hold it into the light of like COD4 for example I think I got the same amount of playtime out of it though. Just as a different experience.

Witzbold

The game is not broken when played by yourself by any means, but I can't see any good coming out of not being able to play together across regions. Sure, it would effectively eliminate lag seen in so many other titles (I had major issues with Gears). But what about those with friends outside of their home country? Isn't that the whole purpose of Live?

Goataroo

greeble

I'm actually really disappointed when I'm in an MMO or something and they split it off into regional servers. I used to play Ragnarok - when I started there were Filipinos, Thais, Indonesians and Europeans in addition to all my fellow North Americans. Korea and Japan were already taken. When I quit it was just North Americans and a few stragglers who didn't move to the Europe server when it opened. While still quite varied, it became much more homogenous than it was.

One of the neatest things about playing Diablo 1 was meeting people from all over the world at different times of day. If any filter will be imposed without options, how about just a minimum ping to join a game ot ensure it works properly?

fuchikoma

FatherTed

axiomatic

darkandlong

QualityJeverage

Norellicus

Idiots.

OpiZA

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Gadgetron

Witzbold

Witzbold

Pornosaur

Witzbold

okenny :)

Zeouterlimits

Witzbold

That's really retarded, lol.

Norellicus

AGROS

okenny :)

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Totally a bad move on EAs part, not a good way to "launch" a new IP I say.

Witzbold

optimusprym8

Mister Adequate

The original Project Gotham wouldn't let you load your profile at one refresh rate if you'd created it at the other one!

kruador

Man was he ever pissed!

He went on a huge rant and swore he'd never buy another EA game as this was just retarded because there are other games out there that support US, UK multiplayer.

Way to drop the ball EA.

hondo

Well that worked. You have 1 less person using your internets.

Manny

Odin

Plus how the AI is thrown into the mix too is an interesting feature, along with just having to make more $$$ than the other team.

Granted theres not enough maps, plus it would have been interesting to see 3 or 4 2man team VS matches going down.

Witzbold

kolerthnu

scndmg

this is surprising...

any pc can have good international online gaming...

i had lots of fun playing Gears of War co-op with my friend back in Georgia while i'm in Japan...beaten all 3 difficulty levels...

if Epic can pull off international co-op, i don't see why EA can't do the same...yes the occasional lag did bother but even with hardest difficulty, my friend and i did finish the game...

icepick314

Granted Im just playing MP for the APs though. Even more so ever since I found out it will be pointless to try and play with friends overseas.

I wonder if this will effect friends who are on US bases within the same country, since its considered American soil and all that. Somehow I doubt they thought that far into the "problem" they created.

Its kinda funny how they want to lockdown their new IP so much.

Witzbold

Gadgetron

wow I gotta give this game a go.

niall077

ban_hammer

Its rather odd that they chose to do this instead of just going P2P like most other games. Since its just 2 vs 2 + AI.

Granted I can see the gameplay being REAL fucked up if your partner is lagging like hell or the other way around if you are connected to a host far away.

Still yet though its an odd decision regardless.

Im more pissed off about how they region locked all versions. Granted they were / are being released only a week or two from eachother.

I HATE having the goddamned "asian" version thats why.

Im seriously going to buy a US 360 now, but I really dont want to have to take chances with another 360 possibly RRODing on me even more so when its not in the proper "country" of sale if you know what I mean.

Witzbold

I got the game so I could play with a friend of mine in the US. I can understand there being a problem with hosting a 16 player game cross continent, but the problems should be significantly reduced in a 2 vs. 2 game, I'd have thought. EA didn't actually announce the problem, largely because of them being cunts.

If there is a problem with lag, then let me experience it, and I'll make the choice whether I want to put up with it. EA taking the choice out of my hands really sucks. They could show ping rates or whatever.

Von Linus

cheesecake000

Army of Two looks like the usual EA shite anyway. They can just fuck off. Most of my Live friends are in the States :(

Basscadet

HurricaneDave

SigmundTheSeaMonster

For some of us, the wish has come true!

IronsUK

While this might an annoyance, I see nothing wrong as including this as an option in future games. Like screen games that are only in the USA/Europe/Asia.

exkon

mentalboy11

2NinjasTapedTogether

Franklin Comes Alive!

Han Daimond

mossberg