Consolidation

Microsoft Xbox Live Not Backed by Biggest Game Makers (thanks HomeLan Fed) describes the difficulties MS is having getting a pair of gaming giants from signing on as Xbox live developers:
Eidos, maker of Tomb Raider and Championship Manager soccer games, said it doesn't plan to make games for Xbox Live because Microsoft controls the system and manages subscriptions itself, leaving no incentive for a publisher to collaborate. Sony's approach is to sell just the equipment needed to connect to other's services, such as those run by game makers.

``We're not supporting Xbox Live for the time being because we don't feel comfortable with Microsoft's business model -- they own the consumer,'' said Eidos Chief Executive Mike McGarvey in an interview on March 6. The company is developing games for Sony's PlayStation 2 online system, because ``Sony is more of a partner,'' he said.

Redwood City, California-based Electronics Arts, which makes titles such as ``2002 FIFA World Cup'' and ``NHL 2003'' for the Xbox console, said it's also reluctant to join Microsoft's system. ``We have no plans for online games with Xbox because we couldn't agree on the terms,'' said spokesman Jeff Brown, reiterating a position held since last May.
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You completely ignored both common sense and everything you said.
Also, yes the CD does install new shit, but why should I buy a CD package for that? I've got this broadband modem included with my system... but I pay $90CDN for a headset and a CD, a bit of wire and a box?
Let's see, you'd hate to pay for new hardware and a new software for the price of a video game, which is the EXACT same thing as paying for Ultima Online (EA), which is followed by a monthly rate.
But I can't understand how you would hold sympathy for any company.
I'm not bleeding my heart out for MS (or Nike), but I am making sense of the matter. They give you new hardware and new software that makes the Xbox ten times better and suddenly expect it to be free? Cry out for EA to do that and I'd still yell at you.
A monthly fee is a yearly payment plan. If they charged me by the day I would still consider how much money I was spending each year.
A monthly fee is a way to pay by the month and then stop paying for it whenever you cannot afford to (of course you had better do it before the next billing period starts). The fact is, you get a year off and you completely ignored that, so your yearly fee is $50 (90 CDN), as opposed to $150 for Ultima Online ($30 for the game) or even EQ.
And Vice Versa.
Did you think this one through? I said the Xbox was too good for the PS2 and thus cannot get straight ports from the best games; you turn around and tell me that PS2 games cannot give straight ports because the Xbox is too good for them?

Anyway, once you realize your idiotic socialist view is completely off base (you COMPLETELY ignored the point about the payment plans, which actually throws your entire argument back out again), then you might what to come back with an educated guess at why people make my argument.

Am I Bill Gate's illigitamite son? I wish, wouldn't you like to get your hands on a few billion? Do I burn a Windows CD? I wish I could afford it, but these other plans from Sony's side wish to take it all from me on a pay-for-each plan.

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