So, I picked up Shadowrun for the PC a little while ago for $10. I had heard middling things about it, but I hadn't really paid much attention to the details. Yesterday I started playing it and realized what a complete train wreck it is.

The game only has multiplayer content. The only "single player" parts are the 6 training missions (worth 10 gamerpoints each) and "solo matches" which are really just standard multiplayer matches against only bots.

For multiplayer games, there are 2 modes: private and public. Private is used for LAN games or closed games over the internet. Fair enough, that's what we expect. Public games are games over Xbox LIVE against other people. The only problem is that you can't play over Xbox LIVE unless you either have a Gold membership (and are thus paying a monthly fee) or you're playing on a dedicated server that isn't set up as a "Gold-only" server.

I don't understand why I should have to pay a monthly fee to play a game on hardware that Microsoft isn't even providing when I already had to pay for the game. What makes matters more irritating is that of ALL the dedicated servers that were online, there were only TWO players online (at approximately 3:30 PST) and they weren't even on the same server.

I guess I understand why the game was only $10. I feel like I was ripped off. The game isn't even worth that.

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