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MKE wrote:hey Dr Wily, apperently you dont like your xbox, do you want to sell it? or is it just the xbox live service you dont like.
I believe Live is an absolutely horribly cynical move by MS to re-invent online gaming, and I sincerely hope it dies a slow, painful, and expensive death to as to prevent any other company trying anything like it in the future.

There is *absolutely* nothing wrong with the current online business models of; 'Pay for media, online is free' or 'free game, subscription costs'.

I cannot believe anybody would fork out ?40 for a game AND then pay subscription costs on top of that without even getting a SINGLE high speed game server in return.

I'm not particularly enamoured with my Xbox, but I'm keeping it on the offchance Fable is as good as it looks like it might be.
Or Sega decide to release some games for it in the future that aren't Sega GT.
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UC was probably a particularly bad example to pick, as it is frankly a rubbish conversion which had major framerate issues on release - they had to *patch* it FFS! That's something MS swore would never happen thanks to their stringent quality control!
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Dr Wily wrote:UC was probably a particularly bad example to pick, as it is frankly a rubbish conversion which had major framerate issues on release - they had to *patch* it FFS! That's something MS swore would never happen thanks to their stringent quality control!
And you had to pay for Xbox Live to be able to download said patch :x.
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Dr Wily wrote: I cannot believe anybody would fork out ?40 for a game AND then pay subscription costs on top of that without even getting a SINGLE high speed game server in return.
where have you been the past couple of years... thats taken over everything in the market.. welcome to what the rest of the modern world calls "MMORPGS"
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Wait...since when was SegaNet free? And if so, why did they ask me for money?
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Random_Troll wrote:
Dr Wily wrote: I cannot believe anybody would fork out ?40 for a game AND then pay subscription costs on top of that without even getting a SINGLE high speed game server in return.
where have you been the past couple of years... thats taken over everything in the market.. welcome to what the rest of the modern world calls "MMORPGS"
Name me a single MMORPG that charges subscription fees AND makes you buy client software but does not provide servers.
EDIT: obviosuly, for the purposes of your point being valid the upcoming Live MMORPGS don't count.
I can easily name you a number of MMORPGS with free downloadable clients that require subscription fees *only* to play.
antidot wrote:Wait...since when was SegaNet free? And if so, why did they ask me for money?
Who in the hell mentioned SegaNet?
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Dr Wily wrote:
Random_Troll wrote:
Dr Wily wrote: I cannot believe anybody would fork out ?40 for a game AND then pay subscription costs on top of that without even getting a SINGLE high speed game server in return.
where have you been the past couple of years... thats taken over everything in the market.. welcome to what the rest of the modern world calls "MMORPGS"
Name me a single MMORPG that charges subscription fees AND makes you buy client software but does not provide servers.
EDIT: obviosuly, for the purposes of your point being valid the upcoming Live MMORPGS don't count.
I can easily name you a number of MMORPGS with free downloadable clients that require subscription fees *only* to play.
:| and what does this have to do with anything what so ever.
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Why don't you read the statement I posted and your response to it again and see?

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Dr Wily wrote:Why don't you read the statement I posted and your response to it again and see?

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hrm. Xbox live gives you servers..... hmmmmmmmmmmmm..mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Guess you missed that. Maybe it was your "intense" hatred for the thing. Or what the rest of us call stupidity. You preach all kinds of xbox disinformation then bitch about console war topics :| :?
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1) own yourself by quoting something said and not understanding it

2) try to hide the fact you just owned yourself by talking of 'disinformation' and 'stupidity'

3) own yourself again by not realising Live is P2P not centrally hosted - thats why you 'host' a game, and why you get varying pings connecting to different games, beciuse you are in fact connecting to someone elses Xbox, not a game server. Guess *you* missed *that*.

4) Own yourself again by making some kind of statement about me 'preaching about console war topics' when a simple use of good old
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Dr Wily wrote:Who in the hell mentioned SegaNet?
You did :?.
You wrote:However, Sega when they did online games did so by providing their own ISP, so that when you *purchased* a game, if you wished to play online you used *their* ISP which was free, so you DIDN'T have any further ISP costs associated with playing the game online - let alone a frigging SUBSCRIPTION for jack poop.
Sega's own ISP was SegaNet, wasn't it, at least in the US?
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az_bont wrote: Sega's own ISP was SegaNet, wasn't it, at least in the US?
I'm not in the US...
Segas ISP was a pay via local phonecall affair like Freeserve etc etc etc
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That sounds like you pay. Either way, it's up to the consumer what you want to pay for. I consider XBL worth it. I also played and greatly enjoyed DC games online, q3a, pso, and AFO were great games. On another note, a few months ago, star lancer still palyed online because it used Gamespy servers, is this still true today?
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Dr Wily wrote:
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Dr Wily wrote:Plus ISP fees.
Don't forget the basic needs. You need food, clothing, and shelter to survive. You can't play Xbox Live if you aren't alive, can you? Food can amount to quite a few dollars a day. And what about your electric bill? Cost to own a television? That's a lot of money a year to play online, even if you do get away without clothing or shelter.
Yes, I read penny-arcade too.

However, Sega when they did online games did so by providing their own ISP, so that when you *purchased* a game, if you wished to play online you used *their* ISP which was free, so you DIDN'T have any further ISP costs associated with playing the game online - let alone a frigging SUBSCRIPTION for jack poop.

Or are you seriously trying to suggest MS are incapable of providing a free ISP to Live subscribers?
While I am a fan of Penny-Arcade, I don't read it regularly, and I am not familiar with the specific comic that my post is similar to.

My point was, an ISP is pretty much something that you are assumed to have to play online, like electricity, and the ability to survive.

I don't know about other countries, but the SegaNet ISP was *never* free in the United States. They had some nice deals and SegaNet+Dreamcast bundles, but it was never free as long as you had a Dreamcast. You could always use your own ISP (except special protocol based ISPs like AOL) but SegaNet was optional and "recommended".
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|darc| wrote: I don't know about other countries, but the SegaNet ISP was *never* free in the United States. They had some nice deals and SegaNet+Dreamcast bundles, but it was never free as long as you had a Dreamcast. You could always use your own ISP (except special protocol based ISPs like AOL) but SegaNet was optional and "recommended".
The SEGA ISP didn't charge the end user* as such but the telco shafted us with 1p /min calls to get online with the DC ( that's ~ USD 1.00 per hour )

*so, they may take a small cut from the call charge like freeserve but you pay the same rate for an 0845 call anyway...
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Dr Wily wrote:1) own yourself by quoting something said and not understanding it

2) try to hide the fact you just owned yourself by talking of 'disinformation' and 'stupidity'.
hmm yeah sure man.
Dr Wily wrote: 3) own yourself again by not realising Live is P2P not centrally hosted - thats why you 'host' a game, and why you get varying pings connecting to different games, beciuse you are in fact connecting to someone elses Xbox, not a game server. Guess *you* missed *that*..
No, There still is a centralized server oh and wheres all these games that rack up prices independtly? I'm only seeing one. Maybe limeys can see more.
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I never said I wasn't in console war topics they're fun to fool newbs with. Atleast they are till you come along and say we're all wrong like in this topic.
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Random_Troll wrote: I never said I wasn't in console war topics they're fun to fool newbs with. Atleast they are till you come along and say we're all wrong like in this topic.
You mean till someone comes along and shows you to be blowing hot air out your crack :lol:

There aren't any *GAME* servers for any *GAMES* on Live. There is a login server that deals with accounts, and, uh *thats it*.

Game servers = expensive, heavy bandwidth.

Login server = a 386 with Linux installed.

All of Segas online games used game servers, which ensured a *fair* game for everybody, and didn't charge anyone subscription fees to use them with the exception of PSO.

All od Live's online games DON'T use game servers but DO charge you a subscription to play the games. And of course the host of an y game gets the 'home field' advantage ping wise.

See the difference? I know this topics very hard for poor ickle troll to understand properly with all the big words and technical language going on...
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yes I understand how game servers work boy. Oh and I love it when you don't reply to stuff where you got owned -_-
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For someone who 'sure understands how game servers work' you've done an incredibly accurate job of feigning ignorance in this topic.

Whats not replied?

How UK ISPs work when sixteen-bit already explained it?

What games you have to pay for the cost of the game AND THEN Live subscription fees for to play online? Go to a store and look around

If StarLancer is playable online still, because I don't know?

Why you're such a jackass? I don't know that one either...
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If I may...

The Xbox Live starter kits (old ones, at least) have an expiration date on them somewhere, but I think that date was July this year (based on a vague memory from a post on the xbox.com forums shortly after the beta was over). This was to prevent hoarding of the kits and using them for continued membership (albeit with changed GamerTag, etc.) if Microsoft jacked the Xbox Live price up.

The new $70 starter kits include the mic, full version of MechAssault, and 12-month subscription. You can just get service sans mic for $50 now from the store, and renewal of service is $50/yr or $6/mo. See here: http://xbox.com/en-US/live/about/subscr ... offers.htm

EDIT: those prices are US...In England/U.K./Britain a starter kit is now 40 pounds, but they don't have the nice handy price breakdown like they do for the U.S.

Nyar, shame on you. Just smite the bastard next time :P
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Dr Wily wrote:What games you have to pay for the cost of the game AND THEN Live subscription fees for to play online? Go to a store and look around.
You were btiching about live fees + games having their own fees online. As far as i can tell there's only 1 and its pso where you could go else where. so why bitch? er thats right.. thats what you like to do...
Dr Wily wrote:Why you're such a jackass? I don't know that one either...
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