I usually don’t post other editorials, however after reading this, which was published by TeamXbox, I couldn’t agree more…

Xbox Live online gameplay sucks. A weapon like Halo 2’s energy sword or Gears of War’s shotgun offer strong evidence that the user hosting a match—which translates into having no lag at all—has a terrible advantage over the other players.

Paying for peer-to-peer online gameplay is a scam. If we are paying to play online, the least we deserve is a server-based system where matches are hosted on a server provided by Microsoft.

So, how about also throwing in there a Clan and Party system that lets you play every Xbox 360 game on Xbox Live like in Halo 2? Bungie (which is owned by Microsoft) has already developed the technology, so it shouldn’t be a big issue for Microsoft’s Xbox division to implement this technology across the entire platform.

If we are paying a monthly fee for Xbox Live, the least we deserve is to have dedicated download servers

The entire article can be viewed here, TeamXbox