Microsoft Offers Refunds To Low-Def Minecraft Users

[Doom972]

This reminds me of how people started complaining in forums when PC games moved from CD to DVD. I remember people talking about how their good old CD drive worked fine and that they were furious about having to buy a DVD drive (which wasn't expensive at that time IIRC).

BTW, you don't have to buy an HDTV. You can do just fine with an HD monitor.

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

How is the Def of your TV stop you from playing split screen?

That is very easy to answer, my good sir.

In the case of my TV, it kinda gives a glare to every single object. When you reduce the object's size to, let's say, 1/4 of it (4 co-op), it's really hard to tell what item you're holding and it's especially troublesome if you're trying to see your inventory. So you could easily mistake a bone of a feather. Or gravel for cobblestone. It's just like reducing an average-sized image on your computer.

It's not like it makes it impossible for you to play the game; I'll take lame graphics over lag any day of the week. But you know, it makes it kinda difficult to play.

Oh, by how the article is worded I thought it was physical impossible to play, that somehow that having a SD TV actually prevented you from playing split screen.

My bad.

 

[ace_of_something]

I'm shocked at how many people are playing 360 on an SD tv. Daily I see people who are on foodstamps that have an HD TV... though maybe there's a connection there.

 

[Ninja-Jordan]

I'm just saying. 22'' HD LED TV. 200 bucks.

 

[Ninja-Jordan]

Lemme break it down for you guys. Technically, I fall in the low-income family bracket. But since I work landscaping I make roughly $600 a week (15$/h). Minimum wage itself is at $10.50 in Canada, and the Canadian dollar is actually stronger than the U.S (but that's not entirely relevant.) Since I have not really a good job, but a well paying job I am able to save for college (bout 4000 a year), chip in $200 a week to help with bills and have a decent chunk left over for games. Every now and again I'll splurge on say a HDTV, a gaming system (WiiU's coming out soon). Being a gamer I know that it is a hooby (for me it's a lifestyle) that is not cheap. The nature of the evolution of the medium requires better hardware as time progresses my old laptop can't run games like Old Republic and Diablo so I miss out on those games. But if I bought a game like Diablo and it wouldn't run on my laptop I wouldn't demand a refund, I would have to evolve with the times. It's the very nature of human evolution! So I find it kind of a weak argument that because people are poor that we have to for some reason forgive them for trying to keep up in a meduim that demands a growing income to survive. Like people ***** and complain when a game is released and it's not in HD, or the graphics are less than lifelike, and when a game that has no buisness being in HD gives the people what they want, the people at the back of the line start complaining that they can't see it? These game companies are damned if they do, damned if they dont.

Any way, where was I going with this...