Socom 3: My Thoughts, and suggestions.

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yew need to remember that Socom 3 is nothing more then a way to snatch money from yer wallet befor the Playstation 3 release.

They dont care at all, thy just want the money, they will do a couple of minor repairs to make the lesser minds think they did something. Then they will just abort anything other then server reboots on monday.thursday (which....ive seen them FAIL to keep up with, ive stayed up several times in the last 2 weeks to try an see if they did reboot the server, for CA time and my time, and the window came an went, an nothing).

[sicknosis]

wow yeah, which reminds me...

read the back of socom 3

it says something about zipper having the right to eliminate online play with 90 days of prior notice....

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which means, when socom 5 comes out, they will prolly shut socom 3 down, after telling yew 90 days befor hand.

[DARKANG3L]

Yeah I think the whole CC stuff is nonsense myself. They just wanted to cover their asses over lawsuits, politians (who seem to be becoming more and more on a mission to stop violent and offensive video games) or angry parents pissed that their 14 year old son was playing a game and hearing "adult" language or what have you. But even so that makes no sense to try and keep kids off the game, reason being KIDS CAN STILL FREEKING PLAY unverified. Saying well the adults will play as verified and those who are unverified will most likely be kids, well you are fooling yourselves. Kids still play with adults regardless, either unverified playing with unverified users, or unverified users playing with verified, kids still play and are exposed to whatever the game entails.

As was stated earlier also, I am Canadian as well and the #'s needed to verify are different in certain countries, so that alienates a whole **** load of legitamite players from getting the benefits of what should be accessable to everyone. Iv'e said from the beginning of Socom 3 to at least give us unverified users the use of a friends list, you meet alot of cool people online sometimes, but unless you are verified or make plans to hook up in certain rooms, your chances of seeing new friends again is slim, it's totally rediculous.

To those who argue "well the game is free to play online so stop your complaining", that is a dumb arguement. You think if they were to bring out Socom 3 and told us from the get go that there would be no online capability or it was online but the quality was piss poor that they would sell many copies, we all know their sales would plummet to almost nil. The only reason anyone buys Socom is for the online portion, if it wasn't for that the game would be used as a coaster. The whole mystique about Socom has been the fun of killing friends and people all over the world, if it wasn't for that it would just be another average shooter. Sure I would gladly pay so much a month if they would keep the servers up to snuff, but they didn't ask for that, is that our faults, they are the ones offering free online play, that should not mean they can just throw somthing together half assed and hope people are happy with it. At least take some pride in your product and of all the loyal fans who have been with Socom since day 1, instead of taking their money and not thinking twice about them playing on below average servers. It's like ordering a pizza, then having a coupon to get 1 free, the one you pay for is great, but the free one tastes like ****, but oh who cares you got it for free anyways right so you can't complain?

Sicknosis I concur with the other poster who said you have made an actual well thought out intelligent topic, which bears many great points, instead of the plain old "this game sucks" topic. For the record I love Socom, it is still great fun to me and I will prolly always continue to have fun on it, but I have tryed BF2:MC on ps2 and I like that slightly more. If they don't wise up soon more and more players will just stop playing Socom to play that or other games of their preference. I wont stop playing Socom, but until they start fixing the problems (ie. disconnects) and other things I won't be playing this game as much as I'd like to be. That's my 2 cents, $5.71 American.

[sicknosis]

yeah thx man,

and thx to others who support my ideas.

Also, what i said about BF I didnt really elaborate... I pretty much watched the reviews for it and it looks cool and all, ive played BF1942 as well as modern combat, and i loved them both. The reason was that when i was watching the review they said that there arent any stats and its hard to organize clans and things like that. When i looked at socom, i obviously knew there was all of that, which i have loved in the past versions, so I got it instead. I guess every game has its problems, and like DARKANG3L said, i would also like to be playing socom 3 more. But i just cannot stand playing without freinds, clans, or stats. I mean me and my brother both play, and for us to find out what game eachother is in we have to run up and down the damn house. Not to mention we usually manage a clan together like we did in s1 and s2, and thats not gonna happen when u can only verify 1 account per CC, unlike s2 where u could have 3 names....

So that is why i refuse to play s3 without being verified. Another sad thing about the CC verification is that we wont be able to anihilate all the x-mas noobs and bring our stats up, rofl.

[DARKANG3L]

Yes not being able to have friends is a real bummer, thats all I'd need and I'd be happy. As for BF2:MC, it is easy to get a clan, go to create clan and there you have it. Friends lists are easy, friends are easy to find, just click on join friend and you are playing with them. The stats are really good, so many of them, you get ranks also, starting off as private and working your way up, I'm master sargeant at the moment. All with no hassle of CC's. Hopefully Socom will get it's act togther soon and fix whatever problems they are experiencing, until then I will be playing both (one more then the other).

[marble man]

A bunch of good points! I don't know anything about other games. I only play Socom. But it really got to me, about the verifying. I really, really hated doing it. It just scares me. I don't like using a credit card one bit. And, I have three names, that I wanted to use, in clan/friend games. But only two cards. And I can't afford to get a gift card, right now. I don't know what else could have been done. A drivers License maybe? I don't know what a code key is, but it sounds better. I do like Socom 3, for the most part. There are things that need to be fixed. But all in all, I think it's a great game.