Games for Windows Live Fails Again... what a shock

[Onyxmeth]

IllegalPaladin said:

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 that you would otherwise be gimped unless you paid 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?

 

You get what you pay for isn't an argument meant to say that all free content is bad and all paid content is good. It's meant to say that if it's free and it doesn't work, then tough shit. You're not paying for it. I have plenty of programs on my comp that were free, and a whole bunch of them are absolute crap. Many of them have equivalent programs you must pay for and I hear they're much better. It's fantastic that Steam is free and it works well. That doesn't mean Windows Live needs to also work well. It's a free service. If it doesn't work, then just don't use it. Leave it alone. It's not like you're paying for it. If enough people don't use it, it'll just go away. This is a gentleman that is well aware of the problems on Live for Windows, and yet he still tortures himself with making it work.

Hey I've got Yaris, Dash of Destruction and Aegis Wing on my Xbox Live. They are free games. One of them is cool, the other two are garbage, but you're never going to see anybody making a big fuss about their quality. Why? Because they're free. The most they can waste is your time.