I guess my "whining" is more about the anonymous thing, on web sites like this we have to find a way to make sure people are accountable for their comments. I like N4G and there are good playstation and xbox enthusiasts, I know this. But the anonymity needs to stop, we need to find a way to make people accountable for their comments. That is what is getting out of hand. I do believe it can get better.

I have faced people that think like his in real life at my store, some take it really seriously and they where are molded in places like these. It ain't good. At least I don't think it is and there are many like the example I gave, and no, it has not always been that way, sorry, at least not from my point of view.

thx for the response.

You are right, it hasn't alwasy been that way, but before it was the PS2 and the Xbox and before that it was the Dreamcast and the PS2.

But the internet was tiny then. And this is kind of a natural evolution, as the internet has become the mianstream, the idiots gettign their views out have become mainstream.

It's natural. It's like a nice quiet town used to be just that, until the huge mall was set up there, and now there's all sorts of riff-raff.

Anyway, plain analogies aside, I think the anonymity and liberty the internet brings is superb. And I think taking that liberty and anonymity is the obvious next step for companies, so they can understand us in a marketing sense, and so that we can be policed easier.

So it will only get better from here on out, but if you don't need your posts policed, why should they be? I'd prefer make the fair comments I do, and yet have the liberty to express an extreme view every now and again.

The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.

Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.

15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.

Let me be clear. This is sarcasm