Can we STOP spelling Microsoft with a "$" PLEASE!!!
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Have you seen the price of their accessories? Have you seen the ACCESSORIES?! Some of them should have been built in to begin with. They're not customer-unfriendly? Have you called their customer support lines before?martyrdrebel27 said:
Micro$oft brought upon themselves this trend.
i didn't say they were customer friendly, just not THE MOST CUSTOMER-UNFRIENDLY. reread. it's right there.LooK iTz Jinjo said:
lets talk about these entitled accessories. do you mean the fact that it didn't have built in wifi (even though NO SYSTEM did on it's release?)
do you mean the wireless controllers that only come with the shell to take batteries? (hey, that annoyed me too, having to buy a play and charge kit, but that's no longer the case, i believe)
do you mean the keypad? because i can't imagine why you feel THAT should have been included.
extra headsets? it comes with one headset, one controller, that's pretty standard and acceptable in my eyes...
cables neccessary for hd? correct me if i'm wrong, but again, isn't sony guilty of this as well? at least with their launch consoles?
tell me, which accessories do you take issue with exactly? and why?
Ok well sure the controllers can now be purchased with a "play 'n charge" kit but that costs extra so it does not count. What do I take issue with? Well as a loyal Xbox 360 owner for over 3 years I take issue with the fact that 2 wireless networking adapters have simply died on me for no apparent reason (out of warranty), I've had over 20 headsets (4 wireless) in that time all bar 3 have been official M$ ones and right now all bar 2 EBAY ones are dead, why do they die? I don't know. They just seem to stop picking up my voice or making screeching sounds to all my friends, they stop playing sounds and in the case of the wireless ones stop charging and turining on all together.martyrdrebel27 said:
I have had a fucking HARD DRIVE die on me. A 60GB HDD! Apparently it was out of warranty and Microsoft LITERALLY said "Too bad, buy a new one".
Don't even start me on how many Xbox's I've been through. It's not the accessories (though it took them far to long to build in wireless) it's the QUALITY ask anyone M$ wireless headsets are lucky to last more than 12-18 months. They simply do not last and when they are designed to last a week more than their warranty lasts that is fucking greedy and if it wasn't for me being friends with some people at EB Games and JB Hi-Fi I would have stopped being a customer of Microsoft long ago.
Oh and Xbox Live costs way to much, I'm fine to pay for it, I understand that they need to make money off it to sustain it blah blah, but when I pay the same price for Live that I pay for a full retail game that's way to much.
That a good enough explanation for you mate?
Calm down OP. It's just a silly fad that people are doing to make themselves feel like part of the "in crowd". You can't just demand people stop doing it, and I hardly see why this warrants a thread. So what if you don't like it? That is how the world works, you know. People do things that other people don't like, but they get over it.
Except the headset breaks if you so much as drop it on a hardwood floor. So then you gotta go out and buy another $20 headset, only for it to break in another month.martyrdrebel27 said:
Unless you get a Plantronics headset of course. Those things will last you a life time. Hell I chucked it out a window and it worked perfectly after bringing it in and using it.
OT: Ill say what both halves of the users who have commented here have said:
Microsoft. Is fucking. Greedy. As hell.
They're wireless headset?
60 bucks. I could have boughten a game where I didn't need a headset for. And it still breaks after a week.
They're wireless adapter?
Not only does it ask you to be right next to your modem, it just barely works. I went back to using an Ethernet cable after a week with the adapter.
Also, you can't for them to stop saying it like that. What're you gonna do? Track down everyone that does that and put a gun to their head? Good luck doing that buddy.
gah, hold on folks, i'm not DEMANDING anything, i don't know why this word keeps coming up, look at the title. I say PLEASE.
(in retrospect, i shoulda said "Would You Kindly quit saying Micro$oft?".)
(in retrospect, i shoulda said "Would You Kindly quit saying Micro$oft?".)
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btw, you just lost the game!
you can't stop us, and you won't be able to. As a matter of fact I can tell you that there will now be an increase in the amount of people that say it because of you complaining about it... so just stop, please
btw, you just lost the game!
Every big corporation is a "greedy fuck".
Damn communists. How do you think you get there on top? By being ruthless and money-grabbing.
Damn communists. How do you think you get there on top? By being ruthless and money-grabbing.
Multiple Sclerosis is a cashcow now? Interesting... How can I contract this profitable disease?veloper said:
(I kid, i have several friends with MS... and it's not pleasant.) I'm lucky even to know them.
On topic... $ucker Punch!
See what I did there?
or possibly ¢apcom?
$ON¥!!!
Spelling Scientology with the $ is more justified.Patrick_and_the_ricks said:
A corporation or any type of for-profit business exists solely for making profits. If it doesn't make money, it's dead. And I'm talking about bigger picture here, not specific products or services or developments.
So greed and general affiliation with money is perfectly sensible.
A religion, on the other hand, is supposed to provide some kind of spiritual enlightenment. It doesn't really do that, it's more of an opiate for the dumb masses, but the thought still counts. It doesn't necessarily have to be a for-profit organization, though, despite pretty much most religions creating and supporting a priest class that earns money solely through whatever the fuck they're doing. That is already the case in pretty much every "traditional" religion today. But in case of Scientology, they're a LOT more money grabbing.
A christian doesn't HAVE to pay to waste their time in some church or to delude themselves. A scientologist does. They're required to shell out a whole lot of money for pseudo-scientific religious procedures to "advance" themselves.
In short, a for-profit business exists for making money and you can't really separate it. A religion, on the other hand, claims to exist for other reasons. So in case of more-money-grabbing-then-usual cults like Scientology, the $ is pretty justified.
Godwin's law.headshotcatcher said:
Sooo... Honestly, I don't care, and I don't see why you do. It amuses me still, and what is this thread accomplishing?