So, I was just cruising one of my favorite community sites, SimHQ, and I happened to run across a report about multiplayer no longer being free. In this post, it states that an industry analyst in an interview with OXM says that fall 2011, you can expect to not only pay your overpriced $60 for your game, but then have to be raped for another $50, or so, to play said overpriced, unfinished, P.O.S. game online IN ADDITION! And people were crying about EA and their $10 scam.

So, let me just get out of the way... To ALL of you game publishers out there, you BETTER pull your heads out of your arses! This I promise you, and you don't have to be an analyst to figure this one out. If you follow through on this ridiculous scheme, you will kill your industry. YEP, just start looking for a new livelihood, cause your current one will be gone. Not just because I will be done with gaming, and yes, I will be DONE with gaming altogether, but because A LOT of other people will be done COMPLETELY as well. If the sales numbers aren't enough at this point to clue you in as to the state of the industry, then that absolutely stupid move will be the one to finally seal the fate of gaming. Yes, i will sell my 360 and PS3, and every game and accessory for them, and I will not buy another console. EVER, if that happens. My son who arrives this September will NEVER be allowed to game in my home again. He may play at someone else's home when he is older, but daddy and mummy will NEVER buy him a console or games, and that goes for PC as well. So I DARE you to make that stupid move. I DOUBLE DOG DARE YA to do it.

Also, I just want to clue you guys into something else. Your industry is hanging by a thread already. Yeah, it is. You sold out to the casual gamers to increase profits, alienating the hardcore audience, and NOW you are going to alienate the casual gamer AND the hardcore, catering to the idiots who aren't idiot enough to buy into your pilfering of the audience. Yeah, real smart and classy move d******s! Also, there isn't one title produced this generation I would pay extra to play online, not ONE. Rushed development cycles, people conned into paying extra for content already on disc being labeled as DLC, and even then that con isn't going all that well, is it clowns. Not to mention the lazy QC process' obviously at work these days. Games are so buggy at release these days, which should be really labeled for what they truly are, unfinished. Look at EA, releasing the same software year after year and pilfering you for $60. Not to mention, releasing a particular 'new' Tiger one year that was less than a year before the next one came out. Sorry publishers and developers, I'm out if you ever pull this card. One more thing... I have spent THOUSANDS this decade on gaming, not hundreds, THOUSANDS. So, you better have yourself a slice of humble pie, SOON. You don't have it like that people. The people spending the most money on gaming, the smart ones, will do the smart thing if this report has any merit, and DUMP gaming as a whole. Just like I will.

The business climate in this world at the moment is crazy. 'Yeah, instead of improving our product to justify purchasing it, let's just rip them off'! THAT is the true nature of business in the world right now. Even in the industry I am in, that is their mentality. Pay full price, get less than half of what you pay for. That is the true mentality of the business world at the moment. The world has truly met its hell at the handbasket, and I will tell you this, Robin Hood will raise from the dead before Jesus ever will. Don't buy into this practice gaming brothers and sisters. I am counting on you to make your voice heard on this issue. R.I.P. Gaming, you were fun while you lasted.

The Merc