Thank you.Diablo1099 said:You use a tag labelled [ img ] and [ /img ]Toadfish1 said:
Just get your image, like this one ( http://gamingdecoded.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/south-park-stick-of-truth-ps3-box.jpg )
Open your [ img ] Tag, punch in the image URL, then put in [ /img ] at the end.
It should look like this:
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Now, the important thing to keep in mind is I used Spaces to stop the Tag from working so I can show you, but if you take away the spaces between the "[" and the "img" you get this:
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Microsoft Offers $100 Store Credit for Trading In PS3 for Xbox One
- Thread starter roseofbattle
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If that's true, then the people trading in their consoles at Gamestop are idiots. I just did a quick eBay search and most second hand PS3s are going for around 150-200 bucks. Any Xbone fans that have a PS3 they no longer play would be far better just selling their console and buying the Xbone outright than gong with this trade-in deal.Arnoxthe1 said:
Come on Microsoft, if you're going to make an offer to tempt Sony users over to your brand at least make it a GOOD offer.
It's still a scummy deal in principal. Trying to undercut the competition like that is a low blow, not just for Microsoft, but for anybody, especially sense they seem to be "recycling" (destroying) the PS3's. You can get a better deal off Amazon. Trading in a console with a massive library of games with backwards compatibility just to get an Xbone at a competitive price is a terrible deal.Arnoxthe1 said:WTF... is up with you guys?!
If you tried to sell your PS3 at your local Gamestop, you know how much you'd get for it? Probably $60 in-store credit. If that. Microsoft is willing to give you $100 in-store credit for a working PS3, period. But FUCK THAT. IT'S MICROSOFT, THE GREAT GAMING SUPERDEVIL. Screw them and their actually pretty nice deals to HELL.
I don't know why I bother reading the comments to these news stories anymore...
This makes sense if, for some reason, you bought a PS3 and hated it, but otherwise I don't see the point. I would say the same thing for Sony if they pulled this, sense neither console is backwards compatible. Why would anyone trade an old console for a new one with no games?
Really now, drop the defensiveness. This move is horrible Consumer Relations. Typically when a company offers a trade-in deal it is because their new product has significant overlap with the product traded in as credit: ie, the older one is rendered obsolete and serves no purpose in the face of the newer product and there is little to no disadvantage to upgrading. If nothing else it is viewed as a magnanimous gesture which handily encourages consumer loyalty and early adopters. That unquestionably does not apply to this case as without heavy modification Sony consoles cannot play Microsoft games and vice versa, and neither new console is looking to have any notable backwards compatibility. In addition to being a rather ugly and blatant jab (which could reasonably be expected to be interpreted as downright petty by prospective consumers), it shows very little awareness of and/or concern for the ramifications of the trade necessitating that a chunk of the consumer's game library become unplayable. If they ever want to play those titles again they either have to buy a second version for their new console (when possible, and that's not a given), or repurchase the same console they just traded in, the latter of which we can reasonably assume is not part of Microsoft's business plan. Bottom line is that this is not a consumer friendly move.Arnoxthe1 said:
In addition to the above, by all appearances $100 is lowballing the PS3's resell value (with reasonable estimates I've seen ranging from $100-$150), and worse still, the discount's purpose isn't so much to make the Xbox One's price seem cheap as it is to make it seem competitive, to match the price of its rival products, a detail that - again - the consumer base was very quick to pick up. That is perhaps this move's most egregious sin: it doesn't come off as a deal, and that's before we take the above into account.
So yes, this is a damaging move for them, and they really should be giving their marketing department a stern talking to because this is predictably bad for public relations regarding a product which has already been plagued by bad PR (which in turn makes the consumer base wary of the product and more likely to pick up on future missteps). It's the kind of thing that makes people more likely to turn away from the product instead of embracing it.
Though I will admit to being idly curious as to what - if anything - I said in this post or my prior one could reasonably be read as "FUCK THAT. IT'S MICROSOFT, THE GREAT GAMING SUPERDEVIL"...
@all who say that the PS3 is worth more than 100 dollars:
You know what? You're right. It is worth more than a 100 dollars. But that DOESN'T mean that local stores will give you any better of a deal if you bring it in to sell to them. And OF COURSE you'd get a better deal online. You'll always get a better deal if you sell something online rather than locally, discounting the shipping which can cost a lot sometimes. The fact of the matter is, Microsoft is giving the most amount of money if you trade it to them locally than if you traded it in at most any other local store.
@all who say that it's a bad move because of no backwards compatibility:
To be quite honest, it doesn't matter if Microsoft is jabbing at people or not or acting like the PS3 is inferior. I've always been a very straightforward man, and at the end of the day, as I said, Microsoft is offering the most amount of money for a PS3 than most other stores are offering. It's a good deal and if you're tired of your PS3 and you want to sell it locally for whatever reason, you can trade it in for a quick $100 now instead of the dumb 60 or so dollars. Simple as that. You can take it or leave it. What you shouldn't do is make a big scene about something so simple.
You know what? You're right. It is worth more than a 100 dollars. But that DOESN'T mean that local stores will give you any better of a deal if you bring it in to sell to them. And OF COURSE you'd get a better deal online. You'll always get a better deal if you sell something online rather than locally, discounting the shipping which can cost a lot sometimes. The fact of the matter is, Microsoft is giving the most amount of money if you trade it to them locally than if you traded it in at most any other local store.
@all who say that it's a bad move because of no backwards compatibility:
To be quite honest, it doesn't matter if Microsoft is jabbing at people or not or acting like the PS3 is inferior. I've always been a very straightforward man, and at the end of the day, as I said, Microsoft is offering the most amount of money for a PS3 than most other stores are offering. It's a good deal and if you're tired of your PS3 and you want to sell it locally for whatever reason, you can trade it in for a quick $100 now instead of the dumb 60 or so dollars. Simple as that. You can take it or leave it. What you shouldn't do is make a big scene about something so simple.
So, to echo the words of Jim, Yahtzee, and a couple of other critics...
They want us to trade in a console with confirmed communities and games for a console with a middling library and a bunch of features that you might not even want to use.
You know... because it looks slightly better and you can Skype on it now.
It's just like using a comput--oh...
They want us to trade in a console with confirmed communities and games for a console with a middling library and a bunch of features that you might not even want to use.
You know... because it looks slightly better and you can Skype on it now.
It's just like using a comput--oh...
Attacking policies, practices, products, enterprises, etc. is one thing. But personally attacking each another or calling each other out apropos of nothing (particularly your last line) is quite another -- unnecessary at best and just mean at worst. We can all have disagreements with each other, but nothing should stop us from at least being civil about it. Really, this should be a given - no one should have a reason to even say this.Arnoxthe1 said:
OT - and in reply: I respectfully disagree. A hundred dollars is a lot to me. I consider my purchases carefully. A functioning PS3 with a sizable library and exclusives I really want coming soon (Persona 5 in particular) is going to stay comfortably where it is. Sure $100 dollars might not "break your bank". It won't break mine, even; but if I don't have to spend it to get what I want (games I will enjoy), I'm not going to. Microsoft offers me (subjectively, personally) nothing to justify spending it now. For many people, they evidently do. But for many others, they don't. That's just consumers making decisions on what to buy. And as for the price offered, even if the machine itself was only worth $100, it's continued use is worth substantially more. So, say I keep it, I'm personally keeping at least $800 worth of perfectly good machinery and content and when Persona 5 comes out, at least $860. If I want to jump in on a new console, it's going to be the one with the library building up to be most desirable to me and give me the best bang for my buck. And it's going to be the one that does so without a trade-in promotion that is, in no logical way, beneficial to me.
So let me get this straight.
The old games were better than the new games. We know that as fact. Let's just get that out of the way, up front. PS3 games > PS4 games. Xbox 360 games > Xbone games. Fact. Proven fact. We all know it's true. All of us.
And you want to pay me $100 to stop playing $1800 worth of my favorite games forever? All for the privilege of paying through the nose to play Just Dance 2014 and Ryse: Son of Rome?
Fuck you, Microsoft. Just fuck you. You're bad people.
The old games were better than the new games. We know that as fact. Let's just get that out of the way, up front. PS3 games > PS4 games. Xbox 360 games > Xbone games. Fact. Proven fact. We all know it's true. All of us.
And you want to pay me $100 to stop playing $1800 worth of my favorite games forever? All for the privilege of paying through the nose to play Just Dance 2014 and Ryse: Son of Rome?
Fuck you, Microsoft. Just fuck you. You're bad people.
I love how the sole semi-competent argument supporting Microsoft assumes everyone is either too lazy or too stupid to sell their PS3 online and be guaranteed to make more money than they would get from this trade in nonsense.
Sorry Microsoft, you lose.
Sorry Microsoft, you lose.
So here's a question. Who is this aimed at? The people who bought a PS3, don't want their PS3 anymore, don't want a PS4 and want to jump boat to Microsoft with the Xbone's limited library? All eight of them?
It's aimed at anyone who hasn't seen Yahtzee's Next-Gen Buyer's Guide. They're desperately trying to trick as many gamers as possible into trading in their old systems, because they know it's literally the only way to get them to buy a new, more expensive, worse system and worse games to play on it.erttheking said:
I'll admit that one sea-shanty karaoke game is pretty okay, but there's literally nothing else of value on either next-gen system.
A big scene, liiike the one Microsoft's been making? We're just responding to what is said, truth be told. It was they who decided to make the scene. And, as in comedy, when you bomb you have to take what comes to you, if even the occasional thrown tomato.Arnoxthe1 said:
A-ha-ha-ha.
No seriously; fuck you, Microsoft. I'd rather have a system I know is good to fall back on, should I ever become desperate enough to buy yours.
No seriously; fuck you, Microsoft. I'd rather have a system I know is good to fall back on, should I ever become desperate enough to buy yours.