Bigsierra

How does the PS3 thing work online? Does it require a subscription?

How many users names can you have on it? Do you have to pay for each user name? Are they tied to email addresses or something?

Thanks

lordzeppelin

It's a free service. Can't help on the specifics...sorry. Playstation.com would probably have the info you're looking for.

Decker

Yup, free online play. It's not quite Live, and the ability to have as many users as you like removes the disincentive to be a cheater or an a-hole. Still, free is free and I actually think the servers work pretty well now.

Bigsierra

Thanks. Free sounds great.

On Xbox Live, it's frustrating being stuck with only one player name, when the whole family would like to be using the service under their username, but I guess it does help keep the jerk problem down.

I didn't think cheating would be a major issue on console games. Is it a rampant problem? Couldn't they tie the username to the serial number and keep the cheaters from being an issue?

Michael Corvin

Playing online, yes, but every other feature can be done on a silver account, which you can create as many as you want, AFAIK.

forsho01

yeah it's free, but i experience slow downs at times during online play. i prefer to play cod4 on the 360 over the ps3 b/c of this issue, but i'll still play it.

PixyJunket