hey guys
just heard a rather nasty rumour (i must state it IS a rumour at the moment, i have only seen it on GameCentral, ITV teletext games page)
other related items are about the possibility of combining PC and console gamers into one community
by that i think they mean anybody that has a microsoft product (operating system / console, as i dont believe they will let a PS3 onto the service)
i cant remember the exact wording, and nothing is confirmed at the moment
but either way i see this as a travesty,
we spend hundreds or thousands on our machines, and we do not need this retarded xbox live to play online games, if they even think of trying to charge us to play our games online, im going to buy a PS3 and play their free online service
either way, i see it has good points, and bad points (the combination of PC and console gamers i mean)
it is, somewhat unfair at the moment, until every console owner has a keyboard & mouse (for FPS & RTS) and every PC gamer, has a joypad
until then, there will always be complaints over improper equipment (joypads suck for FPS, as keyboards suck for racing games (ever since the advent of touch sensitive buttons on joypads, as opposed to the on/off style of a keyboard))
sorry i cant post the full thing from teletext i fell asleep before i came to posting about it, and now its the next days page :bah:
but for full info, search google for
"pc gamers xbox live"
without the quotes, it should bring up relevant pages
had to post something somewhere about this, most of my friends are console gamers, and refuse to even contemplate online gaming, if only they knew what they are missing
please post any corrections / further information / opinions
im usually wrong, so im used to being corrected
just heard a rather nasty rumour (i must state it IS a rumour at the moment, i have only seen it on GameCentral, ITV teletext games page)
other related items are about the possibility of combining PC and console gamers into one community
by that i think they mean anybody that has a microsoft product (operating system / console, as i dont believe they will let a PS3 onto the service)
i cant remember the exact wording, and nothing is confirmed at the moment
but either way i see this as a travesty,
we spend hundreds or thousands on our machines, and we do not need this retarded xbox live to play online games, if they even think of trying to charge us to play our games online, im going to buy a PS3 and play their free online service
either way, i see it has good points, and bad points (the combination of PC and console gamers i mean)
it is, somewhat unfair at the moment, until every console owner has a keyboard & mouse (for FPS & RTS) and every PC gamer, has a joypad
until then, there will always be complaints over improper equipment (joypads suck for FPS, as keyboards suck for racing games (ever since the advent of touch sensitive buttons on joypads, as opposed to the on/off style of a keyboard))
sorry i cant post the full thing from teletext i fell asleep before i came to posting about it, and now its the next days page :bah:
but for full info, search google for
"pc gamers xbox live"
without the quotes, it should bring up relevant pages
had to post something somewhere about this, most of my friends are console gamers, and refuse to even contemplate online gaming, if only they knew what they are missing
please post any corrections / further information / opinions
im usually wrong, so im used to being corrected