"Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made." -- John Godfrey Saxe.

Personally speaking, I believe we can add video games to that as well. This has been my experience over the past decade or two, anyway.

(Found via owsf2000, because I don't visit Desucktoid at all these days on my own, unless I just happen to be linked there by someone else, as was the case here.)

Just goes to show that some people are very, very stupid. The only possible reason I personally would even pretend to want the X-bone to go back to using the asinine DRM would be to prove once ( Read more... )

"If a game company touts always online, character storage in the cloud or on a server, then the game they are talking about isn't a game at all, it's a service, and that service will inevitably go offline. This is why so many consumers hate always-online games - because in the old days when you bought a game and the company stopped supporting it or ( Read more... )

All of this stuff should be old news for anyone who pays the least bit of attention to the video game industry, but it's still nice to see a somewhat more mainstream outlet like Cracked continuing to pound away on these issues as well ( Read more... )

So Microsoft decided to stop being retarded and backpedaled on most of the stupid bullshit that shouldn't have been there to begin with. Well, I guess that's good news ( Read more... )

We already knew about the daily phone home requirement, but apparently if you're playing on someone else's console, the phone home interval is reduced to one hour. And if it can't connect, well, it seems you're just SOL. They may as well have just gone ahead and made it always online. The difference between that and what they're doing here is ( Read more... )

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While a lot of what TotalBiscuit is saying there might sound like it makes sense and all, maybe, I'm still going to avoid the X-bone like the bubonic plague (and the PS4 as well, if it tries to do something similar, as the rumors seem to be indicating) regardless. Unapologetically ( Read more... )

What a dumbass.

No. No, I won't "learn to love" always online. It will never happen. Simple as that.

Well, that's a start, I guess. I wonder if they'll stop doing all of the other stupid shit they've been doing for the past few decades that customers have also been complaining about. I wouldn't hold my breath on that one. Also, the cynic in me is waiting to see what even more heinous thing they'll come up with to replace this Online Pass stuff ( Read more... )

Hey look, it's Cliffy B saying something stupid yet again. Why am I not surprised that this pompous douchebag supports always online? Oh, right, it's because he supports other utterly asinine shit like microtransactions and on-disc DLC as well ( Read more... )