Acevil said:
I totally agree, if I had the PC version I wouldn't have been able to trade it in the first one. (and no I didn't trade it in just yet but I am, for Left 4 Dead and GTA4(Paid for 22.99) I am getting Assassin Creed 2 (69.99). |
Too bad you couldn't buy Bioshock and Assassin's Creed for $5 on Consoles, while many people bought them on PC (I got Bioshock $5 btw).
ZenfoldorVGI said:
lol, well, I had to pay for DLC in Fallout 3, sure as shit did. In fact, the PC is moving in that direction with Games for Windows, and the failure of the "DRM experiment" meaning more content you have to buy postlaunch. GFW is a joke, I'm glad the Stardock fellas, and Relic devs have come out recently to say how crappy GFW and Microsoft are. As far as "surpassed" there ya go again. How bout I rent this game on console. Pennies a day. lol, Renting is almost as bad as piracy since devs/publishers don't get a single one of your pennies from your rentals. Once again, truth, if the PC version of this game was 60 bucks, it would be a total ripoff, sell like shit, and become one of the most pirated games in history, due to "retaliation." We need to take away your ability to retaliate for percieved injustice. THEN we'll be getting somewhere. Ofcourse, we PC gamers know when a game is over priced and people are being ripped off. The fact that european console gamers are buying L4D2 for 70€ while I could just get it for less than half that (34€) on PC, says something. One of the reasons why many people think that PC gaming is cheaper than consoles nowadays. Anyway, if I can't lend, trade, rent, borrow, or sell a game, then I don't care how unnoticably better it looks, free is always better. You can lend, borrow and sell a game on PC almost as easy... renting is something that console gamers bring up, yet is almost no different from piracy since you're not only not supporting the developers, but you're also giving money to people who are hurting them. Funny story, using Ebay, I actually played L4D1 for 4 months, sold it back, and made a profit. Funny thing? It's legal, and encouraged by the industry if not the publisher. Good for you, I don't have to pay $50 every year to be allowed to play online. I don't need to pay an extra tax for being able to play the superior versions. Hell, my PC even allows me to make money, as I'm doing a project with some friends in that regard. So yes, basically, L4D came free, with a 10 dollar bill, on the Xbox 360, or I can pay 40 bucks for the PC version, and can't even let my cousin borrow it after I've beaten it? This argument holds even more true for single player games. L4D is right now only $15 on Steam (weekend deal) and the new Crash Course DLC is completely free (while it's $7 on X360). And yes, you can borrow to your cousin, by doing the same that me and my bro do: give access of your steam account to your trusthworthy friends/family. And on single-player games it even easier because they don't even need to logged on steam to play them. That said, I don't even want this game. I'm going to play some AAA exclusive...on a console. Makes me remember the time you told me Dragon Age couldn't be done on a console, because of it being in a certain genre, that didn't make it possible. Ah, memories. Ahh, the memories of when most top console games were exclusive... but now I can just get their superior versions. Maybe I should take a look at that Metal Gear Rising game, and after that I'll dwelve myself on the majestic exclusive PC games that are coming out, then be like a giddy schoolgirl when playing some of the thousands of indie games on PC. I might pick it up to resell in a couple months though, make a quick buck, and give it a once through. It's basically L4D dlc though, right? Too bad the console versions of games are so dumed-down that they just can't grab you for years (or even decades) like PC games do. Maybe if the X360 version's hardest mode wasn't just the easy mode of the PC version you could've seen the difference. |
