snail_maze
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I'll gladly give you a discount tuesday, for an upfront fee todayI've always been fascinated at the "pay for discounts" stuff.
I'll gladly give you a discount tuesday, for an upfront fee todayI've always been fascinated at the "pay for discounts" stuff.
You came into the thread to mock an argument that no-one is making, to support the view that paying for PSN/XBL is bad.Call it what you want to make yourself feel better, it's argument I've seen posted in the past.
I've always been fascinated at the "pay for discounts" stuff.
Firstly "forgot", did you bollocks. What's that all about?
Secondly I pay it for the 48 free games a year. I've never paid more than 25 quid for a 12 month subscription and I don't even play online games. "but they're not free, you lose them after your subscription ends.. Blah blah.." that's fine I'll just renew it again, for the 48 games, it's only 25 quid a year.
Haha, damnPaying for free games. It's like fucking for virginity.
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Paying for free games. It's like fucking for virginity.
It just shows how powerful the word "free" is. Damn marketing.
This is why i'm not a Giant Bomb premium member anymore, i have to pay PSN PLUS every year, sorry GB.
It's likely one of the things that made them attractive for acquisition was that they had users who were paying monthly for that content. It wouldn't make business sense to end that.(People will attack me for this perhaps but it also never sat 100% right with me that GB justified a subscription model when they were independent but then simply stuck with it when they got bought out by CBS without ever explaining to my knowledge why they still needed the subscription money. I don't remember anybody ever asking them about this in an email in the podcast either, so either I missed an explanation somewhere, people have been blindly going along with it or Brad and co. are simply not picking these emails for reading.)
It's £30-50 a year (depending on how good a shopper you are) for like £1000 worth of games. So £970 free.
It's likely one of the things that made them attractive for acquisition was that they had users who were paying monthly for that content. It wouldn't make business sense to end that.
Oh yeah, I get that completely. And I thought it was a stupid decision even back then. It's pretty much the same story for me except I'm still somewhat happy to subscribe. I rarely play online so to me the allure is mostly in the "free" titles, I've got to play quite a few games that I would never had played otherwise. The recent price upping ground some of my gears though, especially since to my knowledge there's no additional boon coming with it.
I love it when the "but free games" card is played.
Nobody complained about paying 50 Bucks to receive free games (also, if I pay 50 Bucks for it, isn't it more a glorified humble bundle than free stuff?).
We are complaining about having to lay down 50 Bucks in order to get multi-player with people who are not in the same room as you are. Its annoying as fuck.
And why not? It's a fact that you don't pay a monthly fee for all those online features on any of the popular PC platforms.I know this is a stealth virtues of PC thread
The ๖ۜBronx;249405858 said:You came into the thread to mock an argument that no-one is making, to support the view that paying for PSN/XBL is bad.
What else is that other than a circlejerk?
The ๖ۜBronx;249405858 said:You came into the thread to mock an argument that no-one is making, to support the view that paying for PSN/XBL is bad.
What else is that other than a circlejerk?
Best things in life are free.
You don't need Xbox Live Gold for cloud saves on Xbox One...Since people have brought it up, I'm not a fan of Sony and Microsoft gating cloud saves behind the yearly sub. It's free on Steam (some games don't support it, but the vast majority of releases after 2010 do), Origin and Uplay. There's like zero reason for Sony/Microsoft to gate it besides the fact that they can.
I'm firmly in the stance of their service, their rules. They don't owe people anything, the companies get to decide how their service runs. If you don't want to use it, then not paying for it is the best way to send that message. It's not a high cost in my opinion, and if you use the service (eg. 5 hours a week) then its a lot cheaper than many things.
Haha, damn
It does seem more like mystery humblebundle-without-the-charity-aspect
How the fuck do you all do it? And how the fuck do they get away with charging for one of the most basic features of the internet?
I blame Microsoft for showing others that you can get away with charging for online MP. It was even worse during Xbox 360 time when you didn't even get free games and just had to pay for online.
And you lose access to the games if you stop paying.
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Paying for free games. It's like fucking for virginity.
It just shows how powerful the word "free" is. Damn marketing.
I just paid 45 for 15 months of Xbox Live Gold. I'll get some free games during that period. I'm happy with that.
You don't need Xbox Live Gold for cloud saves on Xbox One...
Only if you're stupid enough to fall for marketing. I see it as 25 quid for 48 games. Bargain. I don't even play multiplayer games.
Only if you're stupid enough to fall for marketing. I see it as 25 quid for 48 games. Bargain. I don't even play multiplayer games.
I am not sure how xbox handles that so I left it outAnd you lose access to the games if you stop paying.
Is anyone arguing that PC, as an open platform, isn't better in this regard? Of course not.And why not? It's a fact that you don't pay a monthly fee for all those online features on any of the popular PC platforms.
And actually, sometimes the free version is better (e.g. on Steam you have an almost infinite space allotment for cloud saves).
I blame Microsoft for showing others that you can get away with charging for online MP. It was even worse during Xbox 360 time when you didn't even get free games and just had to pay for online.
I blame gamers for saying to themselves this is the way to go way back when we had a choice, we could have stopped this before it laid eggs
Haha I know right? Silly console gamers.Sometimes I feel like console gamers will even choose to pay them for online gaming, even if they have a choice of free online gaming
but guys you get FREE games! discount on games! cloud saves! shareplay! automatic downloads/installation!