VeneratedWulfen93 said:
I frequent these forums enough, I'm on a games design course and its all I bloody do when I'm not reading about video games on the internet. I don't feel like a slave at all. Microsoft charges me £40 a year when I earn £125 a week. I buy around 2 games a month, this week I'm buying Dishonoured.
I don't feel entitled to anything other than games and I get them. As soon as all the stuff you go on about effects me then I'll raise my fists in anger or when I get a job in the industry then I'll take action because then it will be my job.
Freedom? Trapped? Seriously? I can buy whatever games I want and play them whenever I want. You can rant about faceless corporations and such but unless it becomes and inconvinience to me then I won't care until I actually have a chance to do something rather than sign useless petitions or boycott developers because I didn't like a game.
Well, okay, you really want me to show you your cage? Okay, how's this: I pay nothing to play online and if I wanted to tomorrow I could grab a better looking, smoother running copy of Dishonoured for free, and I could play it with whatever interface I want from controller to mouse, hell I've even seen people make VR visors out of the new Sony 3D headset, I could use that and have my head motions tracked by a camera to simulate the right stick motion. THAT is freedom!
And no you can't buy whatever games you want, can you play The Old Republic? No? How about Guild Wars 2? No? How about something as simple as Fallout 2? Not even that? Well now, I really can play ANY game I want as I have TWO DECADES OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT waiting to be explored, where as you can't even play original Xbox games unless Microsoft decides that game isn't one they need to make an HD remake of.
Let's take piracy off the table real quick, though when you speak of freedom the ability to pirate things is a good sticking point. While I love piracy as a concept I haven't played a game I haven't bought all the way through, if I like something I always buy it, but I always wait for a steam sale. You see because you own their system you have to pay more for each game because the publisher has to pay a licensing fee to Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo to even print the game using their DRM. This means that I could buy Dishonored tomorrow for $50 bucks on steam, or I could get it on 360 for $60.
While $10 dollars doesn't seem like that much when we look at bigger deals on even mildly older games it becomes insane. Earlier this year I purchased the whole Grand Theft Auto Collection off of Steam for $12. Twelve. Fucking. Dollars. That collection goes from the original top down, through two, three, vice city, San Andreas, and 4 complete with expansions.
Right now if I walked into a GameStop and wanted to buy Grand Theft Auto 4 Complete for 360, even after it's been out for so long, I'd STILL have to pay $30 dollars, more than double the price for a fraction of the content. I bet if I wait sometime this year I'll be able to grab Dishonored for 20 bucks, and I'm also willing to bet that it won't be that cheap on 360 for a couple years.
Accessories are the same, though less for Sony as they were nice and implemented Bluetooth so you can buy off brand.
Thing is, I wouldn't mind if you weren't defending the 360. If you don't see how the 360 is a blight on the games industry then you clearly aren't as deep in the scene as you think you are. You may spend a lot of time in the scene, but spending a lot of time at a hospital doesn't make a doctor
If you don't critically analyze the nature of your surroundings and even looking outside your niche, well then you're just another cow with it's head down being herded to slaughter.
Huh... my captcha was "mast beef"... that's sort of creepy given my final line.
