Online Game Shopping Rant

**ThirdMarioBro** · 04-15-2006, 11:46 AM

On another topic...who hates crap like this?

http://www.gametap.com/home/Home?ori...D%26ei%3DUTF-8

These subscription based gaming networks annoy the hell out of me. I know that's where the industry has been trying to push people for eons. They're taking away our rights to own anything little by little. "Pay by the Week to play", or "Buy this game and store it on a proprietary hard drive until it dies and you're fu*ked".

I guarntee you when the next Xbox comes out, Microsoft will claim incompatability with either all or most of the stuff on XBL Arcade and make people pay for it all again, or "renew their licenses" or something. They want us to buy things and have nothing to show for it. I hate it with a passion. I mean, at least let me store it on some sort of physical media that dosen't wear out, but hey, that would be against the point of the whole thing wouldn't it. That would give me a backup, and they don't want that. THey want me to pay subscription fees and redownload things. Fu*k them.

If the Virtual Console dosen't allow me to put things where I want them, then fu*k it. As for Xbox Live, I'm only buying things I want to play online for the time being, and I'm not considering them final copies as I don't really own them. I feel one day we're going to be stuck buying all our games like this. Companies are trying to force this on us. This "Direct to Drive" PC Crap and such. How convenient that we download the PC game, install it, and have no means to back the installiation file up so that "when" our PC dies, we're fu*ked. It's a money racket that goes into an endless loop.

04-15-2006, 11:46 AM	#1
ThirdMarioBro Tea Time! Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 8,905	Online Game Shopping Rant On another topic...who hates crap like this? http://www.gametap.com/home/Home?ori...D%26ei%3DUTF-8 These subscription based gaming networks annoy the hell out of me. I know that's where the industry has been trying to push people for eons. They're taking away our rights to own anything little by little. "Pay by the Week to play", or "Buy this game and store it on a proprietary hard drive until it dies and you're fuked". I guarntee you when the next Xbox comes out, Microsoft will claim incompatability with either all or most of the stuff on XBL Arcade and make people pay for it all again, or "renew their licenses" or something. They want us to buy things and have nothing to show for it. I hate it with a passion. I mean, at least let me store it on some sort of physical media that dosen't wear out, but hey, that would be against the point of the whole thing wouldn't it. That would give me a backup, and they don't want that. THey want me to pay subscription fees and redownload things. Fuk them. If the Virtual Console dosen't allow me to put things where I want them, then fuk it. As for Xbox Live, I'm only buying things I want to play online for the time being, and I'm not considering them final copies as I don't really own them. I feel one day we're going to be stuck buying all our games like this. Companies are trying to force this on us. This "Direct to Drive" PC Crap and such. How convenient that we download the PC game, install it, and have no means to back the installiation file up so that "when" our PC dies, we're fuked. It's a money racket that goes into an endless loop. __________________