I just read CAD owner Tim's latest rant about gamers who whinge about paying for a game after the initial retail price - i.e. subscription fee, DLC fees, or in the current case-in-point advertisement-free VOIP in the new APB game. There are people who claim to boycott games, unplug speakers to avoid listening to advertisement, and go nuts about a price-tag on an item they want. I know a few people who do complain like this, and i have to ask...
Why? What gives you the right to complain about something like this? Are you so conceited with your gaming habit that you must complain about it when something doesn't agree with it? If you dont like they idea of paying for addition items or a subscription fee, or having to sit through a few seconds of advertisement before getting back into a game, then stiff shit! Take your medicine like a human being and get over it!
Think of it this way - consider a loading screen. Typically they are filled with concept art or renders of the game - imagine if they were filled with ads instead. Imagine every time you loaded up TF2, instead of a cool picture in the background, there was an ad for Coke or Pepsi. Could you imagine the venom from the people who have been playing the games since conception? I'll bet there would be people up in arms about a decision like that, and i dare you to disagree.
Or the whole 'advertisement in games' thing. Like a billboard in a game featuring ads that change per level cycle (i think they wanted to introduce this into a FPS a few years ago). People went nuts over it, but what is the problem? How does it affect your gameplay? How does that affect your game at all?
I'm sick and tired of people bitching about stuff like this. Its like a kid who whinges when his parents tell him to get a job coz they're tired of paying for his dumb ass to sit around and soak up their retirement, the little mongrel. Do people expect stuff for free these days? We all sit around, playing on game consoles that each cost several hundred dollars each, PLUS additional peripherals, PLUS games, yet people bicker when they are ASKED to spend an additional ten or twenty dollars for something 'you might like'.
Here's the kicker, here's why people get pissed off - i think its because, deep down, they know that if they spend money on a DLC or subscription fee for a game, that they are spending hard earned dollars on something that is ethereal, and therefore not real. I think people would ***** a hell of a lot less if that spectral horse or souped up humvee had to come in a thumb drive that you could use over and over - and they would spend the ten or twenty bucks, because they could hold that item in their hands and say 'hey, i own this now.' And then they could physically see the DLC in store, probably shrinkwrapped in plastic, and make the decision that they wouldn't want it, instead of being tempted by the easier solution of downloading it. Because people want a quick fix, and not doing anything in order to get something you've been tempted with is a very guilty act.
Why? What gives you the right to complain about something like this? Are you so conceited with your gaming habit that you must complain about it when something doesn't agree with it? If you dont like they idea of paying for addition items or a subscription fee, or having to sit through a few seconds of advertisement before getting back into a game, then stiff shit! Take your medicine like a human being and get over it!
Think of it this way - consider a loading screen. Typically they are filled with concept art or renders of the game - imagine if they were filled with ads instead. Imagine every time you loaded up TF2, instead of a cool picture in the background, there was an ad for Coke or Pepsi. Could you imagine the venom from the people who have been playing the games since conception? I'll bet there would be people up in arms about a decision like that, and i dare you to disagree.
Or the whole 'advertisement in games' thing. Like a billboard in a game featuring ads that change per level cycle (i think they wanted to introduce this into a FPS a few years ago). People went nuts over it, but what is the problem? How does it affect your gameplay? How does that affect your game at all?
I'm sick and tired of people bitching about stuff like this. Its like a kid who whinges when his parents tell him to get a job coz they're tired of paying for his dumb ass to sit around and soak up their retirement, the little mongrel. Do people expect stuff for free these days? We all sit around, playing on game consoles that each cost several hundred dollars each, PLUS additional peripherals, PLUS games, yet people bicker when they are ASKED to spend an additional ten or twenty dollars for something 'you might like'.
Here's the kicker, here's why people get pissed off - i think its because, deep down, they know that if they spend money on a DLC or subscription fee for a game, that they are spending hard earned dollars on something that is ethereal, and therefore not real. I think people would ***** a hell of a lot less if that spectral horse or souped up humvee had to come in a thumb drive that you could use over and over - and they would spend the ten or twenty bucks, because they could hold that item in their hands and say 'hey, i own this now.' And then they could physically see the DLC in store, probably shrinkwrapped in plastic, and make the decision that they wouldn't want it, instead of being tempted by the easier solution of downloading it. Because people want a quick fix, and not doing anything in order to get something you've been tempted with is a very guilty act.