Yeah, that one spot at the bottom of the home page that you have to actually go to before any sound is played is such a nuisance....And remember MS' rule that other consoles can't have multiplatform games before them? (Rayman Legends controversy). That's almost as arrogant as Nintendo in the NES days. I am actively rooting against the Xbox. Paying for peer-to-peer, floods of advertisements, everything else I've listed and more... the Xbox brand is outright BAD for gaming.
Yeah, that one spot at the bottom of the home page that you have to actually go to before any sound is played is such a nuisance....
But this is one of the reasons why Xbox is everything that is wrong with gaming? I mean, really? People do know that they aren't required to look at ads right? You can just launch a game and go into it right away.Nearly everything on the dash is an ad. The video one in the corner is just an ad for something that's not on XBL.
http://penny-arcade.com/report/arti...-profitable-truth-about-xbox-live-advertising
But this is one of the reasons why Xbox is everything that is wrong with gaming? I mean, really? People do know that they aren't required to look at ads right? You can just launch a game and go into it right away.
Is it really that hard to go to the game tab? You just push over 2 or 3 times. I'm not aiming this towards you, just the idea that games are hard to find seems a little off. Plus, if it is a game you own, you can always just pin it and then it is there right underneath the box where you would start your game.Also, you say just ignore the ads and launch the game, as that article points out, it has become increasingly difficult to find the games on Live.
Is it really that hard to go to the game tab? You just push over 2 or 3 times. I'm not aiming this towards you, just the idea that games are hard to find seems a little off. Plus, if it is a game you own, you can always just pin it and then it is there right underneath the box where you would start your game.
I think it goes social, then games. I can understand that. I have said before that I wish they would let me pin the entire games market, because that is usually what I go to when I am on the dashboard.
Don't worry guys, both console makers are in for a reality check the first year their new consoles are out...especially Xbox. I am a PS gamer but I am also not going to buy it for their collusive efforts to hurt GameStop & the gamers themselves with their greedy business practices. I will instead just work on the backlog of games I have been wanting to buy and play, and send plenty of used game business to GameStop.
Yeah. Support Gamestop. There's a rallying cry we can all get behind.
Why isn't the game tab the first thing to come up to start with a game console? Or at least make it a preference you can set. Every other system I have I turn it on and my games are the first thing I see and can select and not an ad in site.
Just saying you don't notice them/ignore them/it is just 2+ clicks away just helps pave the future for worse practices. I can't say for anyone else, but I don't want crap like that to become the standard, but if we don't nip it in the butt now and allow it to grow as it is, it will eventually and then it is too late.
That's not what he said. Gamestop is the biggest video games retailer out there and they may be deliberately trying to hurt their business. I will admit to buying some games used, when you discover a game you missed before it is possible that it is no longer available as new. If they remove the ability to play any used titles, how will you go back and play games you may have missed?
how are they deliberately trying to hurt their business?
Used games are the main profit line for GameStop. We know this, they know this. By trying to limit or remove used games from being used on a system. They are trying to hurt them. No other retailer I know of makes as much a big deal about used games as them.
Whenever this discussion comes up the first thing to everyone's mind is GameStop.
so you think the goal of limiting used game sales is more a factor to deliberately hurt gamestop rather than get more profits to them? is that really what you think?
oh, and the whole "no used game" thing is 100% rumor at this point and has actually been debunked by the latest rumor.
I know one thing, GameStop is the #1 used game outlet. So by targeting used games at all, they would be targeting them by default.
I know all about the rumor I am just talking in hypotheticals.
there is a difference between something indirectly being targeted and something being deliberately targeted. i know it is just semantics but the way you said it is that they were trying to hurt gamestop first, make money second, which is just ridiculous.
cmdrdredd said:That's not what he said
I will instead just work on the backlog of games I have been wanting to buy and play, and send plenty of used game business to GameStop.
Uhh, that's exactly what he said, bud.
I'm well aware of Gamestop's standing as retailer, and that affecting used games would effect every retailer of used games.
But it was so poorly worded, and with the emphasis on Gamestop, one of the least respected, least liked retailers out there, it came across rather flimsy.
If you're going to support used games sales, at least do it through a place that doesn't rape you on trade value and/or price.