L.C.E.C. said:
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) |
Well, for those of us who haven't evolved past the rest of the universe, as clearly you have, we just choose to read/watch what we want to read/watch and to not read/watch what we don't want to read/watch. I know that you said TV is a colossal waste of time for you, which is not surprising since you are the supreme being that you are, but for the rest of us (at least the ones who DVR our shows), we can just fast forward right past all the commercials and STILL watch the things we enjoy watching. Therefore, we don't have to cut out a major source of information/entertainment just because we feel like being snobby about it.
You get most of your video entertainment from the internet instead of TV? So let me get this straight: You think the video on TV is a "collosal waste of time" but the video on the internet is not? And you're skipping TV because of the ads, and then watching all your video on the internet which has even more ads than TV? AND even crappier ones?
Also, you don't have to make a new account to get a good deal on Xbox Live membership. Shop around a little bit. Since you spend so much time on the internet, you should be good at finding things like that. And you can totally ignore the NXE stuff and use the blades if you want. No, they are not the full screen that they once were, but you can still navigate around Live the way you used to be able to if you don't feel like using NXE. I think a lot of people thought the blades were clunkier than NXE. I for one didn't have a problem with either interface. If you can't learn your way around the menus after a day or two, you probably have no business playing video games.
And finally.....Yes, you had to make an avatar to use NXE. Since the avatars seem to piss you off so badly, answer me one question. Except for the first time you made your avatar, how much did it really effect ANYTHING you do in NXE after that? Seriously, how much? How much time do you actually have to spend dealing with that avatar when you sign on to play a game? Do you sit there for 10 minutes before you play and stare at your avatar thinking about how much you hate it because you were forced to make one when you got NXE? I hope not, because THAT is a colossal waste of time if I've ever heard one. And that goes for NXE too. How much time do you spend while you're gaming thinking about how much NXE is ruining your experience. Is it really THAT hard to deal with? If so, I suggest you turn off your console(s), PC, and cell phone, and spend a few hours outdoors to get a little perspective on things.
Ads suck. Big companies suck too sometimes. (ALL of them, not just the ones whose consoles you don't own.) Lots of things generally suck. But many people, mostly fanboys, seem to forget that there is not one gaming company on earth that is not in it to make money. They aren't there out of fan loyalty. They don't make sequels just because they think you would enjoy a follow up to the first title. They aren't going to remove ads just because you're pissed. And they aren't going to give you free games, OS software, or anything else. The only thing they want is for you to open your wallet and give them the money that's inside of it. It's up to you to choose when you do that and when you don't.
