El_Machete said:
JayWood2010 said:
El_Machete said:
Lostplanet22 said:
dsgrue3 said:
kowenicki said:
These articles are dull and lazy "journalism" - nothing new there in gaming I know.
Don't want to pay for it... then don't. Stop preaching. Its so boring. How many have we seen like this now?
My view: If they change the model then fine. If they don't.... then fine.
I don't care either way. The price is less than the price of one game ffs. |
The price isn't the issue, the principle is. Did you read the article?
"charging significant money ($59.99/year, or $9.99/month) for features given away for free on competing platforms"
"Microsoft's ardent desire to force people to pay more money means that you might not get to experience the entire game that you just purchased."
"Cordoning off entire sections of a game from people who paid good money for that product is indefensible"
You're locked out of the multiplayer aspect of your game simply because MS feels like it. MS didn't make that game, why are they restricting something you pay for (game + internet)?
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Say that to all those MMO players.
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do you have any idea what is happening in the MMO space? have you heard of free-to-play? subscribtions are going down hard
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Pay to Win?
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go back to bed dude...
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In my experience this statement is true. You pay to win. Not really sure why you told me to go to bed but MMOs work in two ways. 1 you pay monthly or you adapt the free to pay and then it becomes pay to win. Oh and btw how much money has WoW made over the years? People play it because it is a good game and they have the money to constantly update it. XBL works the same way. I don't expect everybody to go out and buy XBLG but one thing you can't argue, is that it is a great service and it continues to update. I expect it to be a multimedia hub next gen and if that comes true then it may even be a cheap alternative to Cable TV. And I don't consider $5 a month to be that big of a deal either but hey that is just me. People wast their money on crap like fast food so if I want to pay for XBL and spend hours of time on their I dont see why other people are going to complain about it. If you dont like it then dont get it. Complaining why a popular service should be free is just pointless though because at the end of the day it will still be popular, it will still be good, and it will still cost money.
