- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Nomaderwho
Posted by: Agamemnon582bc
Posted by: Nomaderwho
The days of free online gaming are coming to an end. You can either accept it, or only play the free games (which are becoming less and less).
I'd rather pay for a service that lets me play any game on it, rather than pay to play just one game like WoW.
It's people like you that the gaming market loves. You're the reason why they move on ahead with online gaming fees for PC games now, and you're also living proof that you're not bothered by it, simply because you believe "change is good."
Yeah. People like me that are willing to pay $50.00 a year to play any game on 360 over live and live enabled games over PC. You do realize that is only 14 cents a day! If that's to much for an online gaming service, then Maybe you need to get a job.
You're new here, so I'll give you some leniency.
First, I have a job. I also graduated high school some time ago, got kicked out, and now live with my girlfriend while I go to college, so as far as the "Daddy can't give you enough money" argument goes, it doesn't.
Second, there are countless of other services that offer what Live offers and MORE for FREE. Not only is it required for you to buy a completely new upgrade for Windows to play this game, you're also forced to sign up for a service just to play custom maps or run a server on the same computer you're on.
I also take it you're not a long-standing HCE player, so that's also forgiven, but the HCE play is FREE and I can run a server on the same computer, all the while being able to play custom maps, because let's face it, the only reason there were any sales at all for H2V were either:
a) You took a chance and thought "what the hell, the Xbox version was good"
b) You're a die-hard fan
c) You were part of the HCE community, were intrigued by being able to bring in custom material to H2, and decided to join on in
Guess who are the people who feel let down when they find out they need to get a subscription fee for something that was already free in the first place?
And this doesn't even cross the threshold of how Live shouldn't even touch the PC. It's an Xbox service for God's sakes. If Microsoft wants to capitalize on the gaming market this badly, then they should have just bought Xfire. Hell, if they had did that, they would've still gotten away with a yearly fee to use Xfire and millions would still use it and pay that fee. At least with Xfire you're not forced to upgrade to the next OS and you're not limited to Live games.
Then again, Microsoft was never very notorious for jumping on the ball for online services. They're just as bad as Macintosh and their iTV and their soon-to-have-the-same-fate iPhone.
[Edited on 07.14.2007 10:16 AM PDT]