ameratsu said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
ameratsu said:
Just because you don't pay doesn't mean you get an inferior service. Steam has most everything you'd need directly involving gaming, while xbox live has more multimedia features and a more streamlined setup. The fact that it's free, there's free user created content, and dedicated servers make it a great service.
Remember that Microsoft tried the Pay model with Games for Windows live. Granted it was a pretty much just a hollow shell of Xbox Live, the complete rejection of a pay to play model for regular (non-mmo) games is still interesting.
PSN has some issues compared to Live, especially related to the social/communication aspect. Short of making XBL Gold free, Microsoft could still make all their features (crossgame voicechat, crossgame invites, netflix, whatever) a paid service but online multiplayer free. I just don't see a good reason why microsoft has to charge someone to use their own internet connection to connect to another user when both users have paid for their games. |
Why must people interject and then talk about steam?
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Because it's a legitimate platform like PSN or XBL. I don't artificially seperate consoles and PCs like some people. Steam is a free service after all, and since it exceeds a paid service in several ways directly related to gaming it's a legitimate thing to bring up. I see the favorite passtime for some xbox fans is pretending the only way to play games online is with a console.
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Why cant people just grasp that Steam is not a console product and end it with that? I used to play on Steam when I played PC games. I don't see how it is relevant to this, just to satisfy the void of PC fanatics who like to put down console games every chance they get.
