[QUOTE="Riverwolf007"]
btw, i find it funny that steam gets dragged into this whole mess.
most people think gears is the most popular cover based game this gen but actually it's dudes hiding behind pc in sw.
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Personally, I find it comforting that people are so concerned about how and what I spend my money on.....
I mean, if I shot Heroin in my veins day in or day out "Meh, it's your life, die slow, junkie."
But if I spend $60 a year (4 hours of 1 workday for me btw) on XBL "What are you doing to yourself man!!!! Intervention!!! Intervention!!!"
What I eat shouldn't make you run to the toilet, amirite? If I'm good with it, you should be great with it, right?
I've sucked it up a long time ago that if I want to play online on XBL, I have to pay the annual cost. It's the way it is, I'm not gonna start a grass roots campaign to take down the man, I just wanna be able to play online ffs. Way more epic **** in the world going on than this.
i've argued about this in here for 5 years now and i will tell you why it is that i just make jokes about the subject at this point.number one, it's not about money, if it was about money or being a ripoff then me paying $110 to upgrade my sixaxis to ds3's or mass effect 2 and oblivion being triple the cost of the 360 versions when they came out would be basically the same thing, that you can pay less for a product that is almost the same.
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number two, what this actually is about is that xbl is better than psn and it is an observation that is in no way subjective or opinion but is something that can be shown to be superior and that is xbl's biggest sin in fanboy eyes.
how do you attack something that is better? by price because that is all you really have.
maybe some drivel about the principal of the thing but that just goes back to the first point.
is it a rip off? yeah it prolly is but big deal i bought name brand sodas today when the cheap alternative was right there next to them so y'know whatever it's a drop in the bucket as far as ripoffs go.
are they right about getting locked out of multiplayer unless you come up with money? yeah they are but i knew that going in and i was promised the best online experence on console and that is exactly what was delivered.
what i mostly think about the whole thing now is that the xbl argument for me has turned into the classic legal precident of let the baby have it's bottle and just agree that it's a rip off whiletelling people about being glad that there is a bare bones free experence on psn and also an upgraded experence on xbl.
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