| D-Joe said: nah it just you're stupid can't believe anyone would don't know how to read this underhanded ploy,huh?guess because this is from MS |
No, I'd be as annoyed if it came from anyone.
As for "nah it just you're stupid", I have to point out the Muphry's Law type of nature of that statement.
And what both you and crissindahouse are ignoring is that this deal isn't targetted at people on VGChartz. It's targetted at the mother that wants to buy her son a console, and glances at the deal - "Ooh, $99 for an Xbox 360 with Kinect? And it comes with free Xbox Live?" As I said, the problem is that a casual reading is going to interpret it the way I said.
For those who don't get what I mean by "casual reading", what I mean is the interpretation you see if you don't read it carefully, to make sure you saw all of what it says, and only what it says. People have a tendency to fill in blanks or miss words when they read casually. Surely you've had a situation where you responded to someone in a thread, only to discover that you missed the word "not" in their statement, thus entirely misunderstanding? That's an extreme version of this.
The problem is, where missing a "not" is a major mistake, failing to notice that the $14.99 is being charged, not a "valued at", is much easier. Especially if you don't know a lot about video game consoles to begin with.
But hey, I must be stupid, because I disagree with you, right?
