dsgrue3 on 03 December 2012
| J_Allard said: Never said the definition of extortion is wrong. |
| J_Allard said: It's funny because the definition you originally tried to pass off as extortion (which of course was just an entirely different word but you tried to twist it for your own agenda) is wildly different than what you're posting now. |
Perhaps not wrong, but wildly different? Hmm, no, not at all.
extortion: the exaction of a grossly excessive charge for goods or services.(Original)
1: the act or practice of extorting especially money or other property; especially : the offense committed by an official engaging in such practice
2: something extorted; especially : a gross overcharge
Interesting how both of those definitions explicitly state a gross overcharge and yet you think they are wildly different. Trouble reading or what?
My point isn't that Live itself as a service is extortion, it is that the MS model of forcing you to use such a service as the only option to use the multiplayer features of your software titles is. The software developers create the multiplayer portion of the game, and MS effectively blocks this content from you unless you pay them to use it. How you can say this isn't extortion is unfathomable.
