In an interview with Infinity Ward's studio head Grant Collier,
IGN discussed everything
Call of Duty 4 and got the company's opinion on Microsoft's Live Anywhere initiative. Grant said that after Microsoft pitched the idea of incorporating Live Anywhere into their games they felt that it wouldn't work with their projects and simply said "
no way". Collier says such a system is best suited for "
card games or Tetris or something like that" and not the RTS or FPS genres. Microsoft didn't have a convincing argument to Infinity Ward's complaints and didn't respond to them.
Collier's take on Live Anywhere directly conflicts with Microsoft's view of bridging multiple gaming platforms like their latest gem
Shadowrun, which is a FPS and incorporates the technology. So, maybe that's why phone calls weren't returned ... they hurt Microsoft's feelings. Big bullies.
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6-15-2007 @ 5:15PM
Iced_Eagle said...
I guess I agree... There really isn't a huge motivation to incorporate it considering the extra dev and testing time needed.
Hopefully Microsoft can work on it though to make it more compelling to developers.
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6-15-2007 @ 5:21PM
Project Ekim said...
is this the thing that will alow you to unlock achievments on your cell phone and view your gamer card and compare to ur friends on mutiple platforms.
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6-15-2007 @ 5:26PM
BuccaneerBrad said...
I think Dustin got 'Live Anywhere' confused with 'Games for Windows Live'
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6-15-2007 @ 5:30PM
Triforceowner said...
I listen to both GFW and 360Fanboy podcasts, and it is interesting to hear the difference in opinions on Live Anywhere. A lot of the GFW staff sound upset that games are being toned down on the PC (aiming for instance) while on the 360 gamers are happy to just get another good game. If Live Anywhere is going to succeed it must overcome the difference in console and PC gaming, and the developers must make the playing field equal without hurting one side or the other.
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6-15-2007 @ 5:31PM
Triforceowner said...
My comment had more to do with Games for Windows Live I suppose...
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6-15-2007 @ 5:37PM
Project Ekim said...
"I think Dustin got 'Live Anywhere' confused with 'Games for Windows Live"
No i belive that this was announced a while back at The MS keynote. It was somthing about the ablity to use your windows moble enabled phones to play certain arcade games with 360 and PC users such as uno and unlock Achievements. I also heard that it would go deeper than that allowing you to sign in through passport and acess your 360 and the market place. So your at school or work and your friend tells you about a demo thats out instead of wating to get home wip out the cell and tell your box to download it then turn off.It would also do things like trading objects that were in 360 games or pc games like the cars in the above pic.
All in all it sounds very cool it was supposed to be laucned a while back with GFW but i thought they forgot about it. Its good to see thier at least trying
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6-15-2007 @ 6:19PM
BuccaneerBrad said...
Yeah, I guess Im the one confused. I cant get those two things straight.
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6-15-2007 @ 6:26PM
ciscomancer said...
I think their is a solid middle ground out there for some mini-games related to the original game that could be loaded on a windows mobile device (like the old Dreamcast tamagochi on steroids) What if you could load a Pinata from Viva Pinata on your phone and train them? A small side game that could have an effect on your main game.
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6-15-2007 @ 7:40PM
Stranger said...
Infinity Ward said the same thing in Game Informer's CoD4 cover story a month ago.
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6-15-2007 @ 7:41PM
Otis Whitaker said...
I don't see what'd be the problem if offering servers for PC gamers only, servers for console gamers only, and servers for cross platform play, with a disclaimer that using a controller puts you at a disadvantage?
Who cares about competition?
Some of my friends don't have 360s.
I'd love to play games with them online, even if they'd beat me.
The fact is, competitive bafoons are going to end up ruining for the real people who want to have fun.
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6-15-2007 @ 7:42PM
Stranger said...
correction: They said it about Live for Windows.
Sorry!
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6-15-2007 @ 9:46PM
GodOfGod said...
Live anywhere has absolutely nothing to do with enhancing the gaming experience. The only point of it is it to make Live the standard in the majority of online games. You people showed MS how stupid a lot of consumers are by paying for peer to peer gaming. Now they want to steal from every gamer on every platform.
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6-16-2007 @ 12:10PM
Lucky said...
I think Shadowrun did it perfectly. I've played with PC guys and and such and have never noticed.
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