Domicinator said:
A) If you're still paying $50 a year for Live Gold, you're an idiot. B) The NXE dash is NOT hard to defend. NXE and Xbox Live are awesome services. Especially after you see PSN in action. C) I pay extra money every month for HBO. I pay extra money for HD cable. I paid money for all of my games that have ads IN GAME. (I'm looking at you, EA and Ubisoft!!). At least the Xbox Live ads usually pertain to things I actually may be interested in. Do I ever click on any of them? No. Could I tell you one thing about the content of any of them? No. Because I have the option to navigate right past them, which is what I always do. This is all belly aching just to belly ache. Ads are everywhere and always will be. I heard a TV executive once say that the whole point of TV shows is to get you to watch long enough to get to the commercials. I think you can take that philosophy and extend it into almost any other media. How much of the last magazine you read was ads and how much of it was actual content. You paid extra money for that, right? Jeez guys, play your games and shut up. Nobody is holding a gun to your head to force you to read ads. EDIT: And I STILL stand by my statement in another post--PS HOME is just a gigantic ad too, or at least parts of it are. No, you don't pay extra for it, but you're still being suckered. |
A) paying $50 for 13 months through amazon is still expensive, and unless you found a free way to keep your account (and not just make a new one), then you're an idiot too...
B) The NXE is useless, clunky, overcrowded, and forces you to make a souless mii rip-off (avatars). The service for XBL is much better than that of PSN, but for all terms of comfort, ease-of-use, and efficiency, XMB (cross-media-bar) >>> NXE (and it's better than blades too)
C) My father pays for satellite radio. He recieves ZERO ads. I don't usu. listen to radio, but as you can probably tell, sometimes I don't have my phone with me, so I have to listen to FM radio (I had a free trial for sirius, but it wasn't worth it)... Notice: My dad pays for his radio, and I do not. He has ads, and I do not. On another case, you can think about it like OnDemand from your cable company. You pay for the content so you don't get interrupted by commercials, instead of waiting for it on a movie channel (where it may also be censored)...
D) That is why I almost never watch TV (with the exception of a few shows). It is a collosal waste of time. The internet is 90% of my video-entertainment needs
E) I don't pay for magazines because they are virtually useless thanks to an internet connection... The only one I have is Game Informer, and that's just because it came free with the Edge card. (I get 10% off used games & accessories w/ that)
