Zappykins said:
It's a few dollars more over 2 years to get it sooner, rather than have to wait to save up that much money. I don't think the slightly higher price when they basically finanace and loan it to you is asking much at all. For financing that's really reasonable and upfront. |
It is for now, the difference is Windows is open so MS doesn't get a cut from those games which means on a business level, you are looking at it the wrong way, not that I dislike all of MS, I think Windows 7 is just fine, I just don't like the route they are taking due to the usual greed, and as consumers, we shouldn't be on any coporation's side, their goal is to drain as much money as humanly possible from us, that's the core that nobody should ever forget. If their products justify the cost, then of course I have no problem doing business with them, but they don't have to be Apple, they don't have to be Google, they should just do the best that they can without fucking the consumers over. Do you truly need DX? No, because there is still OpenGL. Do you truly need Windows? No there are alternatives. MS knows this, but instead of coming up with actual fixes and solutions, they want to suck the share holders' dicks instead and come up with ridiculous business models that might eventually hurt the open-ness of the PC in the long run where we as the consumers will loose, unless we find alternatives, which there are plenty even as of now TBH, just not as popular yet.
The problem I have is the XBL model, people might think, wait, that service is awesome! But in the end, you are still paying to play online, and people will keep saying things like "this is the best service because I'm paying for it!" No it's not, it really isn't, do people care about that truth? Nope. Do I care about people spending their money on it? For the most part, no, looking at it from a bigger picture though, yes. That's exactly why MS is trying to fuck it's consumers, and unless you work for MS or own 20% of their stocks, you shouldn't be taking that side at all. You can only argue reasonable and upfront if you have compared all other alternative and still say they are the best, and the only thing people are really paying for then is the cross game voice chat without an actual phone number you can call the US/Canada with unlimited minutes, wanna know how much that costs me on skype? 5 bucks per month with my own phone number, and I can actually call people on phones or on Skype and conference people together all over. There is always something better with a better value is all I'm trying to say. Who owns Skype now? Microsoft! See, I have no problem with good services, I have problems with services that are clear rip offs or behind the times.
