Vault101 said:
Yeah, I never understood the down with AAA, stop the evil company stuff. All the "boycotts" and big complaining I see flung at big companies, just seems like people shooting peas at grizzly bears.
I say, play a game, state your opinion to the developer, if you really feel the need to, and move along. Making "movements" to petition developers to change their games and such, just seems really stupid to me. I find it sad when something people have created is changed, not because the creator wanted to change it, but the money men backing it say it has the change because there are gremlins growling at their door, saying they want refunds and won't buy future games.
I one of those people that loved Dragon Age 2 and thought the people that did the zero bomb campaigns were stupid. And of course, I thought the same for ME3. Yeah, the ending wasn't that good, but seriously, it wasn't bad enough to warrant "movements" and such. Though I seriously think that no bad ending or story is worth such a thing. I'm of the mind of, if you don't like it, move along, don't buy from the company again if you feel that strongly, but don't go acting like you have a creative say in it. If you want to have that power, get a job at the place where that particular game is created, then you have the right to try and get things changed.
But whatever, such things don't concern me right now. Because I'm not buying newly made games now. At least not for a few months.
Since I don't have a good PC, my main platform was my Xbox 360, but Microsoft pissed me off when they hosed up and locked my account. It happened because they tried to take money out of my account for live, but the debit card I had attached to it had expired, and I know I had set it to where my account wouldn't auto sub, but apparently for some reason it had reverted back to auto.
Since there was no proper way for them to get money, they didn't re-up my sub, but for some strange reason, I could still play on live. I played for at least a month because I thought I was still subbed. I had never got a warning or anything saying that my sub/account was screwed up until a month later. Of course when I found this out, I did have money and a new card to switch the account to pay with, but when I tried that, I found that they had froze my account, and said that I needed to contact them to get things settled.
The reason I decided to stop with them for now is because they made it so that the only way to deal with the problem was to call them. I said fuck it, because I'm the type of person that hates having to call and deal with people, so I said no.
That was when I ended up using a large chunk of my Christmas money on E-bay over the course of three weeks, to buy 32 old games ranging in era from NES to N64(mostly NES and Gameboy).
So since the Microsoft fiasco, I've been playing the games of the past, along with a little play on my PC with LotRO.
I will end by saying that this thread of yours brought to light your blog, so I now know I have something I need to look at. I need to work on my blog, I started mine last year through Blogspot(url on my profile here). Interestingly enough, the last thing I wrote about was Mass Effect 3 launching and the people complaining about the day 1 Prothean DLC.
Hmm, with as much as I've been writing in my Escapist posts of late, I should just refocus that energy and some of those post thoughts to my blog. But of course now my fingers and brain are a little tired from this post, so I guess I will take a break =P. Time to play some NES.