| S.T.A.G.E. said: Um dude...Xbox Live is a subscription based program. If Microsoft blocks other people from using online because of a fee it defeats the purpose of free to play. Nothing is free on Xbox Live outside of the silver package which is bare bones at best. No doubt Xbox Live will be a great MMO platform for free online games elsewhere, but Xbox Live is a premium service. Free and Xbox Live dont mix in a press statement. On PC, PS3, Wii definitely...Xbox 360 no. This isn't bias I pay for live when theres games I want to play online on it, but it really was a bad choice of words and shows just how out of touch they are with their own policy. |
And so is Playstation Plus. And the talk on here is how it offered free games to the subscribers of the service:
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=143758&page=
Sony Preparing For A Massive Revamp To PlayStation Plus With Free Top Tier Games and Proper Vita Integration
PlayStation Plus is an amazing offer PSN / SEN users can take advantage, for the mere price of $50 a year players get free content every month ranging from full retail games to mini’s and even free dynamic themes and avatars along with early access to closed beta’s and greater savings on sales. It seems that Sony is making plans of revamping the PlayStation Plus program and Ross McGrath who is the PlayStation Plus at SCEE has even said ” By the way, if you don’t have a PS+ subscription, now is the time to get one. For real. Just get 3 months if you aren’t sure. Trust me. ” ( You can view the TweetHere ) on his twitter account. Could this be a hint that the months following E3 will be heaven for us PlayStation Plus Subscribers?
And Sony also uses the term free games, when discussing Playstation Plus:
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/07/02/new-games-coming-to-playstation-plus-instant-game-collection/
New Games Coming to PlayStation Plus Instant Game Collection
+ Posted by Morgan Haro // Community Manager, PlayStation Digital Platforms
Last month we gave all PlayStation Plus members an Instant Game Collection that included 12 full PS3 and PSN games, and it’s been a resounding hit with gamers everywhere! This month, we’re continuing the free game goodness by bringing three new titles to your collection in PlayStation Plus.
Break out the fireworks for the July 3rd PlayStation Store update, where PlayStation Plus members will be able to download Gotham City Impostors, Pac-Man Championship Edition DX, and Renegade Ops for FREE
And you can see in article like this, Cablevision is said to offer FREE games to the cable subscribers:
http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/movies/cablevision-rolls-out-free-games-for-io-tv-customers
Cablevision Wednesday launched of a new interactive gaming service that will be available free to all its iO digital TV customers. The new offering, from ActiveVideo's TAG Games, has an array of puzzle, arcade and children's games, and allows customers to play on their own or even against other iO TV customers in a house-to-house mode. "We are always looking to differentiate and add value to our products, and the addition of free games for our iO TV customers serves both objectives," John Trierweiler, Cablevision's senior vice president of product And yes, the company website calls it free:
Free Cable TV Games
Optimum TV Isn't Just TV You Watch. It's TV you play!
Optimum TV customers enjoy free access to our interactive TV games service, TAG Games! Enjoy hours of entertainment with an exciting lineup of TV games for both children and adults!
Play TAG Games on Optimum TV Channel 610 - FREE.
It is fairly common, in the context of someone paying for a good or service, to get additional things for no costs, and those things are said to be free. People disagreeing with this terminology, are disagreeing with convention. You might as well also go and yell at Gamestop when they have "buy two and get one free" and tell them, "You are lying, you are NOT allowing people to get a game for free. If you were allowing people to get a game for free, they wouldn't have to pay for anything. You would let people walk off with whatever game they want. STOP LYING GAMESTOP!"
In short "free" also can mean "no additional charge". If you feel this is wrong, then go and look it up. And after you look it up, and still disagree, then go and argue with the world. A good place would be to get a sign and start an "Occupy Malls" movement, to tell the world to stop supporting these lies.
Also, with PS+ to, once people downgrade, they no longer can even load their games they had access to prior. Those PS3 titles they hve access to for free with their subscription no longer work.
