Mass Effect 3 Demo Shows the Absurdity of Xbox Live Gold - 1UP

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TheKoreanGuy said:

NotStan said:

TheKoreanGuy said:

Sevengen said:
you probably shouldn't have done it the first time, seeing how Microsoft is still going to charge for a service they provide and millions of people who see the value in it are still going to pay. myself included. maybe next time you can write a couple chapters about why Netflix should be free. cuz you know.. it should be right? I mean who are they to charge people for renting movies when you can the same ones free at the library.

Wow. If millions of people see value in it, it is more than enough to keep it going right? Millions of people loved black labor in the form of slavery. So I guess we should have kept supporting slavery correct? Do you really think I thought Netflix and library rentals were COMPARABLE services? Really, thanks for taking things out of context and I specifically said not to.

Hypocrisy much, you just complained about comparing apples to peaches then go off and compare online service provided by a company to enslavement of an entire race based on the colour of their skin. Nice one.

The comparison is there. He said millions support Live so it's okay to keep it the way it is. Millions of people supported slavery AT THE TIME. I know very well that slavery and online services are two different things. But it does provide a counter argument that just because a number of people do support a service is not enough justification. I just used an extreme example to make my point. I want to see exactly why Microsoft needs to have online gaming as a PREMIUM service. I've said it before and I'll say it again, Microsoft can keep everything, literally everything else on GOLD. Just let me play games I've paid for online and give me basic friendlists and text functionality. That is not asking for a lot. Sevengen was basically saying, look at all these guys who back me up, so that means I'm right too and we are happy. I may have said that comparing two different services is wrong, but my analogy with slavery was not comparing services. One is cheap labor while the other is online functionalities. I was comparing the REASONING behind the services. Fees for online gaming are fine since we think so. Cheap black labor is fine because we think so. It doesn't work that way.

It's not whether you're right or not about the argument, it's the fact that you critisize one example for being stupid then go off and make an even stupider comparison, thus making you seem like a giant hypocrite.

Your posts are making my head hurt, you seem to have been brainwashed or something. "look at the guys who back me up", then look at 20-something million gold subscribers, and look how many give less shit about what you want and pay anyway.

And  you seem to pointedly ignore posts that actually justify the online capabilities, gold makes sure that the publishers don't burden the cost of brandwith and provide matchmaking for games, although it makes no sense customer having to pay for it, it's there to justify the cost of hosting and make it easier for the developers. At ridiculously low prices per year in some cases - in some even lower than half the original RRP, only the cheapest of cheapskates would be bitching about the cost, of course it'd be nice not to pay, but then again, I am not cheap enough to actually complain about paying for a service I preffer much more. Although I haven't played PSN in about a year now, when I did, it was wild and unpredictable on non exclusive games, the games seemed dead, no one had headsets, no cross-game chat capabilities, and nevermind my experience being around the time when MW2 has been hacked to shit.

Your argument is interesting, you're probably one of those people who was willing to fork out $600 for a new PS3, yet complain about paying for live. Sheep we are indeed(!).