| Onyxmeth said: I hear horror stories about PCs all the time. This is just the continuing story of gaming on your PC. Maybe it's Microsoft's fault. Maybe it's not. I know that Xbox Live on 360 works just fine, but I do pay $30 a year for the privilige of having it work so well. Games for Windows is free right? Well you get what you pay for. A few things I noticed too: 1. When did this gentleman contact Microsoft? It seems he tried a million things, but I can't find one sentence or statement involving him e-mailing or calling Microsoft about this. 2. I have to question the credibility of a journalist that was given free content to review, yet will dodge his job writing about it just because he doesn't want to break some principle he has of spending more time installing than playing it. I wonder what Bethesda will think of giving this guy reviewable content in the future. |
I'm sorry, but "you get what you pay for" doesn't work well here. People may expect to pay for that stuff on consoles, but that's not how it works on the PC (unless we're talking about something like an MMO). In fact, one of Windows Live biggest failures was the fact that they wanted to have a gold/silver version of it. There was no real quality there, you would be gimped on available features unless you shelled out. Yes, they eventually did away with charging this past summer, but the damage had been done. It also doesn't help that it's like they ctrl+C and ctrl+v'd Xbox Live into Windows Live on top of charging for it.
If "you get what you pay for" is supposed to be an argument, then Valve and Steam must be some sort of black magic, huh? I'm not saying Steam is perfect, but they've come a VERY long way since 2004.
