3rd March 2003, 9:23 PM
(This post was last modified: 3rd March 2003, 9:30 PM by Dark Jaguar.)
That's not what he said. He said the Magic: The Gathering card game is a PC online card game.
It's certainly possible. It's about as bandwidth intensive as a chess game is. (Note: Not a lot at all.)
By the way, I totally agree that more online games should work between different system versions. So long as both versions send out and recieve the SAME data, there is no compatibility issue. Many PC/Mac games work online between versions, well of the games that are on both of them, like all of Blizzard's games.
There is a problem though. GCN is a system where online support isn't even done by Nintendo, and so Nintendo's online ability is currently in the catch 22 of no one buying online adapters so companies don't make games to support it and companies not making games to support it so no one buys the adapters. That leaves that out, which is something that would have allowed PS2 and GCN games to link up easily enough. The remaining problem is between PS2 and XBox. Why aren't those online compatible between two versions of the same game? PS2 online games can't log into XBox Live's servers, because after all it's owned by MS. MS also forces 3rd parties to use XBox live alone for their online games. This prevents XBox Live games from hooking up with alternate system versions on ANY system.
There is one remaining thing. PC/PS2 interconnecting. To be honest I can't think of any games that are out on both systems in online form for both. However, if there were, it would certainly be nothing but a good idea for that 3rd party company to make them both use the same online communication protocal so they could indeed link up with each other.
It's certainly possible. It's about as bandwidth intensive as a chess game is. (Note: Not a lot at all.)
By the way, I totally agree that more online games should work between different system versions. So long as both versions send out and recieve the SAME data, there is no compatibility issue. Many PC/Mac games work online between versions, well of the games that are on both of them, like all of Blizzard's games.
There is a problem though. GCN is a system where online support isn't even done by Nintendo, and so Nintendo's online ability is currently in the catch 22 of no one buying online adapters so companies don't make games to support it and companies not making games to support it so no one buys the adapters. That leaves that out, which is something that would have allowed PS2 and GCN games to link up easily enough. The remaining problem is between PS2 and XBox. Why aren't those online compatible between two versions of the same game? PS2 online games can't log into XBox Live's servers, because after all it's owned by MS. MS also forces 3rd parties to use XBox live alone for their online games. This prevents XBox Live games from hooking up with alternate system versions on ANY system.
There is one remaining thing. PC/PS2 interconnecting. To be honest I can't think of any games that are out on both systems in online form for both. However, if there were, it would certainly be nothing but a good idea for that 3rd party company to make them both use the same online communication protocal so they could indeed link up with each other.
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