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Re:Microsoft: The Best Xbox One Gaming Experience Will Be Ov... by dfc on Thursday October 10, 2013 @12:51PM (#6528691)
Respectfully, if you have never heard of port forwarding before I think that you might not be very informed when it comes to XBL. Or maybe you have never heard of port forwarding because you bought a device with UPNP and therefore you never noticed the problems that can result from lack of port forwarding.

Port forwarding has been a must for quality FPS match making since the beginning. What XBL games do you play?

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Re:Microsoft: The Best Xbox One Gaming Experience Will Be Ov... by Lewisham on Thursday October 10, 2013 @01:41PM (#6529001)
It really depends whether he plays a game that warns about it. The dashboard only warns about a Moderate NAT if you run a network test. Of the games I played, only Halo 3 warned about Moderate NAT. Halo 4 doesn't bother anymore.

So I don't think he's not "very informed." He's the normal player base. I don't even bother setting up NAT anymore and it works fine, even though I know I should go through the rigmarole of doing it.

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