Yea you can pay for the Playboy channel from your cable provider, buy would you do so if you could get it for free from a local channel and a set of bunny ears on your tv.
The same thing is happening here. They want you to pay extra just to go to popular sites like NFL.com, Itunes.com, or YouTube.com just because they are high traffic sites. Not everyone can afford the top tier internet service as it is, so should these people be restricted from going to wikipedia due to financia...
A few months ago there was an article about this very issue. I had bookmarked it, but that was before I wiped my comp and reinstalled everything.
Basically they want to make your ISP into something similar to cable tv. If you want to be able to use Google, N4G, or Wikipedia then you have to pay for the premium package, lesser known sites would be available for a smaller price. In other words the more popular the site, the higher up the pricing tiers it will be. Which will basical...
This is like the 4th time I've read an article about this same page of this same book in the past month or so. Then again, what other news is there about the 360 to write about this year.
The really funny part about this article is that it's written to sound as if Microsoft got over on Sony, but when you factor in the RRoD, Sony won this fight. Many of my friend, myself included, wont get a 360 due to RRoD. And due to this console gen being at least 3-4 more years in the making, ...
hmmmmm... makes you wonder sometime doesn't it.
Well that's the way it looks to me now that I've read about this for the second time on N4G. ;P
Edit:
Just actually read the article and I feel as if I just warped back two years. It's not April 07 anymore but this article would have be more relevant back then. Today it just shows how out of touch with the reality of the gaming industry this blogger is aka mr "Oliver Marks".
I'm not going to copy the whole article, but the following is what this blog...
I was thinking of getting a 360 when three things happened. First MS dropped support for Xbox1, and the second was rumors of RRoD, and the third was release of the PS3. I decided I'd wait a year or so to see how things played out, and to see if RRoD was true. Needless to say as of Jume 2008 I became a PS3(MGS4) owner and haven't regretting one cent I've invested.
How very Egocentric of you.
Piracy.
Arrrrrrrrrr!!!
The only features that XBL has that PSN doesn't is cross game chat & invites right. So in the next year when PSN gets those "Holy Grails" of features, not only will PSN match XBL but it will actually surpass it. And this will be due to PSN not only being free, but also because it has Home, which some wish to call a failure due to their own personal lack of social skills.
To be honest, Home is more of a threat to the Wii than it is to XBL. Home is more for the casual...
another slow news day in 360ville.
Then again, with NXE being so superior to Home it's a wonder that Sony even tried to match Microsoft's greatest achievement. It's literally mind blowing, with all the fun things you can do with an Avatar, who in their right mind would want to spend time running around Home with the Homiez. You know, I can't wait till NXE gets a Halo, GeoW, or EA "space" to watch my avatar stand around in. Yes, on that fine day Home will just fade into ...
Just when I thought I had cornered the market.
What a wonderful world we live in. =)
I can't wait to see if Sony does the in-Home E3 event again this year. I saw pics for last years and I've been waiting for an event like that to happen again just to see how they pull it off.
Hmmm, now that I think about it, I still need to pull out my shades and go check out the Godfather2 space to get my poker on.
Give us $49 games and we will buy twice as many is what I'd say. That extra $10 dollars is hurting sales more than publishers realize. Yea they are making a bit more per game, but they are selling 25-40% fewer games.
This is the price cut all gamers should be yelling about.
Should I go with Gamestop who has an exclusive in game power, or with Amazon who has an exclusive Home outfit. I'm a bit torn as I went with GS last time with KZ2 and was disappointed that the demo had no online, and the fact that the Helghast uniform is still not for sale in Home. At the same time, I'm not big on the Reapers whom I know so little about.
Hmmmm, wonder if Best Buy will have a preorder special?
If people wanna troll, they need to go all out. Your avi pic is just the bomb and the fact you actually used the open zone for your work is commendable. Good Job solder.
I was about to let this one slip completely by. Now I'm caught in a bind between getting this or importing Demon Souls. Both are ARPGs so what am I to doooooooo!!!
Your not allowed to take over the world, unless in the untimely event that I pass away while taking over the world... or some time after I have taken over the world and have gotten too old and senile to care about it anymore. Then and only then you can step up and avenge me/challenge me, but until such a time your to sit on the bench and wait your turn.
In the mean time I need to find as many weak minded people who are easily influenced by video games. They will become the foot s...
It's one thing to protect an IP, it's another to bash the fans of that IP.
As a fan of Dune, I find it incredible that no one to this day has been able to correctly capture the essence of Dune in a Video Game. Sure there have been a few strategy games, but no real RPG/FPS type game that truly feels like Dune.
Now the IP holders want to attack fans for trying to give other fans what they want in a Dune game world. Instead they should be setting up a coop to profit all...
Yep, just to get users most browsers have to be free. However, IE is purchased as apart of Windows. Buying Windows is paying the staff who works on IE, while those who work on Firefox or Opera have to find alternative means to stay afloat. The reason this is anti-competitive is due to MS getting paid for IE while the competition has to give away better browsers just to get market share.
Some of the younger members of this community may not remember this, but at one time MS used t...