Avykins said:
Okay so before I start I must explain. I personally hate this shit. I do think MS are just being assholes for locking out memory cards and 3rd party harddrives too.
However. The 360 is their property right? So if they want to lock out shit that others are making for their product should they not legally be able to?
Is Datel paying them a percentage for sales of their items which is clearly designed for MS's product?
Basically what I am saying is that datel is making money only because of the 360. Why should they be able to get away with that without at least having to pay something to MS?
Do tire companies have to cut car manufacturers in on their profits? Does every software developer hand over a percentage to MS?
Just because a product is designed to be used with another product doesn't mean the second manufacturer is the slave of the first. Up until the worthless, reprehensible conglomerate of greedy idiots that is MS got into the console business, a plethora of third-party devices existed: gamesharks, codebrakers, action replays, and any number of random memory card brands. When the x-box came out, the death of the cheat devices took place almost overnight. One generation later, even memory cards are manufactured by a select few. What does this amount to? Yeah, maybe there is a little less hacking on the 360 due to their policies, but it is so marginal that it doesn't really matter. The people using such unsophisticated hacking methods are either 12 year-olds with no gaming skills to begin with or people too lazy to work on a harder mod. Nowadays, anyone with the right screwdriver, a free modding guide, and a few hours to burn can do much more disturbing things. The people routinely cheating on xbl will not be discouraged in the least. With the trade-off being that consumers are forced to shell out ridiculous prices to MS in order to get vastly inferior products, I just don't think that the handful of pre-pubescent punks stopped from hacking Halo is worth it.
As far as the EULA and that kind of garbage goes, I politely say "**** you, MS" every time I hit accept. I don't even bother to glace through them anymore. It all amounts to 'Even though you payed exorbitant prices for our products, we can tell you exactly what you will do with them.' After paying $300 for a buggy, poorly made console and the subsequent games, I feel as though I have the right to do whatever I want with it. If I want to take it apart and swallow it piece-by-piece, expel it onto a picture of Bill Gates, and send it first class to the Canadian prime minister, then that is what I will do. If I want to mod my game so that my character is covered in nipples and deals 8000000% damage, so be it. Now, as far as online is concerned, it is up to the people maintaining the servers to keep things fair. On that note, why is it there are fewer obvious cheaters (in my experience) on PS3 versions of multiplayer games as compared to MS versions? The PS3 lets you use any old usb drive to save games, and yet it has not burst into flames and destroyed the entire free-market system.
I realize I am a bit long winded, but any time I see MS, a company so wealthy it could build an island out of gold coins in the south Pacific and still have enough assets left to buy the Northern Hemisphere, taking a step to ensure more revenue, I just lose it. I loathe MS and pray to any god that will listen for someone to put them out of business. They are doing for the gaming industry what Rupert Murdoch did to television, and no one is able or even willing to stop them for the same reasons.
Oh, and I am not a console fanboy of any kind. I know that each console has its strengths and weaknesses, I just hate MS infinitely more than Nintendo or Sony. At least the Japanese have the decency to give us a shiny gimmick or awesome Bluray player while they ream us on the prices.
