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5. I rented GTA IV for the 360 and thankfully it get's along fine with my 360 Elite. Personally I think that the who game freeze crazy was just a hoax Rockstar started to get the game even MORE publicity.
4. Crackdown (Xbox 360) is a perfect example of this. You can't finish the game without buying the "extra" content. You might be able to squeak by, but you need the upgrades to level up your character. Developers are putting out free downloadable content (DLC) now to get you hooked on downloading their crap, and yes most of it is crap. Massive multiplayer online role playing games (MMORPGs) are a major offender of this. Take World of Warcraft (PC) for example. You pay $40 tops for a new game AND a $10-15 (I'm not sure on the exact price) monthly fee. A MONTHLY FEE!! What kind of bullsh!t is this? Then you get a crap game that most gamers grow tired of after a month of playing.
3. My law and society teacher from high school always talked about how "special editions" and "limited editions" are just a marketing ploy. I have three DVDs of the original Transformers movie. One copy is the original disk that includes: the movie (duh!), a couple deleted scenes and story boards, and an Interview with the music composer Vince DiCola. The "special collector's edition" includes: the same movie, NO deleted scenes, two story boards, and Stereo 5.1 sound. Finally my third copy is the 20th anniversary edition. This is the crown jewl of the bunch. This one has two disks with three different versions of the movie (full screen, wide screen, and fan comentary which is just like VH1's pop-up video.), comentary, trailers, all of the deleted scenes, toy comercials, the Japan only episode "Scramble City" which has never been seen in the US, and a whole bunch more. The kicker is that the 20th anniversary edition costs $10 less than the other two editions.
2. Hey $ony, here's an idea: let's market the same feature that's been in your controllers for 10 years as "next generation!" We'll make millions! And while we're at it, we can bring back New Coke. Hey Micro$oft, since you cheap @$$ robots decided that the Xbox 360 is to good to have a Wireless adapter (Like the Wii, PS3, PSP, and DS all include free of extra charge) I decided to rig up my own adapter. I use my APPLE MACBOOK!!! Bend over now, Steve Jobs will now ram his foot up your loose cornholes. Oh and guess what, his iPods have wireless adapters included in them as well. Yes their MP3 PLAYERS are more high tech than the 360! Xbox Live? What a rip off. Let's pay $50 for a years worth of slow download speeds, bitchy / irritating people, "Micro$oft Points" (need I say more), and servers that just fail when one to many people log onto them to play. You still haven't given back to us! Hey Comca$t, I got an idea: gouge your customers for an arm and a leg to use your service, then block anything they want to do.
You all get the idea, hopfully I can stop this now.
1. Downloadable games. Pirates invented this back in the early days of the internet, but NO when the consumer wants to download a game it's wrong, but when the developers throws a $60 price tag onto the game and you give us the same crappy game then it's ok. I'll have you all know that when my casette deck was stolen out of my car I cried. There it's out there. I still use casettes and records. I see no need for cd's other than the fact that you can not find anything on good formats any more. When VCRs came out, they were the wave of the future! George Jetson used one in the 21'st century. It's the 21st century now and my VCR is now a paper weight. Since the VCR's birth, 5+ tangable (touchable, excluding anything on the computer) video formats have been invented and 3 of which are dead and 1 is now outdated. The last one is too expensive for the working class, which includes myself, to afford so where does this leave us? That's right, in the dust. The industry changes formats more often than they change their underwear or high school girls change their boyfriends. And now we are in the age of digital distribution. I for one, try to buy all my games used. Why, because they're cheaper. For some of you, the ones who don't work or own a car or pay bills, money is just another object in your parent's wallet. But for me, money is scarse. I work for peanuts and put all my money into my gas tank which when I waste all my gas driving, five minutes down the road, to work. Once that vicious cycle is over, I has a little bit of money left over to buy a game, but no much. Maybe $10 tops. So I have a choice: buy a new game (option A) or buy a used game (option B). Well option A costs usually around $60 and option B is roughly $20-30, depending on the game. Now I can wait a month to buy the new game, but by that time gamers have finished the game and returned it, thus making the game used. But then again the way most recent trends are going, it's taking much longer for used games to go down in price. For example: Halo 3 (Xbox 360) has been out since Christmas time toting a $60 price tag for a new copy. The used price is, at Gamestop, $55. That is what we call progress...NOT! So what does this have to do with digital distribution? Simple: if everything is digital then no one can return their games then I can buy their used games and then Earth will be doomed because I will have to pay full price for a crappy game I will barely enjoy. I don't know about the rest of you, but actually being able to hold the game in my hands is a great feeling. It makes me feel like I really do own the game where as digital distribution does the opposite. And yes I have bought something through digital distribution. I bought the old Mac classic and now Xbox Live Arcade game, who saw that coming, Crystal Quest. I bought the full version and play it ofted. However I do feel like I stole the game simply because I can't pull out the disk and say "Hey, here is the Crystal Quest disk!"
Sermon over!
Disclaimer: I said some nasty things in there. These are my views and do not reflect the views of PSP3D or any the other staff members.
I am also not a Apple fanboy, I promise.
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