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Playstation/Gaming Discussions => Gaming Discussion => Topic started by: THX on July 25, 2006, 08:11:16 PM

Title: 360 Madden: Pay to watch other people play
Post by: THX on July 25, 2006, 08:11:16 PM: For 1/3 the price of the retail game you can download a Madden video on Live! This is gonna be awesome!!

http://biz.yahoo.com/cnnm/060725/072506_column_gaming.html?.v=1
Title: 360 Madden: Pay to watch other people play
Post by: ddaryl on July 26, 2006, 03:50:03 AM: I want to meet the one person who pays for this crap

LMAO, a fool and his money will soon part.
Title: 360 Madden: Pay to watch other people play
Post by: Eiksirf on July 26, 2006, 04:13:07 AM: I\'ll bet you twenty bucks not one person downloads it. No! Make that 40.
Title: 360 Madden: Pay to watch other people play
Post by: Living-In-Clip on July 26, 2006, 07:13:49 AM: You owe him 40 bucks, I downloaded.

;)
Title: 360 Madden: Pay to watch other people play
Post by: mm on July 26, 2006, 09:09:44 AM: this is a big problem if enough people download it to make it somewhat profitable. this needs to fail miserably
Title: 360 Madden: Pay to watch other people play
Post by: Living-In-Clip on July 26, 2006, 10:19:32 AM: Quote from: mm
this is a big problem if enough people download it to make it somewhat profitable. this needs to fail miserably

Downloaded again.
BAH!
Title: 360 Madden: Pay to watch other people play
Post by: Eiksirf on July 26, 2006, 10:41:28 AM: Yeah, demos and videos are good for free on Live. Paying for them? No thanks.

I\'m afraid of what we\'ll be asked to buy online. Incomplete games here we come. $60 starting fee!
Title: 360 Madden: Pay to watch other people play
Post by: Living-In-Clip on July 26, 2006, 10:55:26 AM: Quote from: Eiksirf
Yeah, demos and videos are good for free on Live. Paying for them? No thanks.

I\'m afraid of what we\'ll be asked to buy online. Incomplete games here we come. $60 starting fee!

...

/insert PS3 joke
Title: 360 Madden: Pay to watch other people play
Post by: mm on July 26, 2006, 12:24:44 PM: Quote from: Living-In-Clip
...

/insert console gaming joke

fixed
Title: 360 Madden: Pay to watch other people play
Post by: Eiksirf on July 26, 2006, 01:06:00 PM: Are PC games still guilty with expansion paks? Xbox and PS3 are going to be in the same boat on this one, too, as is Nintendo depending on how they set up their online interface.

The sad truth is it makes good business sense. It just sucks that customers could be slighted for it.
Title: 360 Madden: Pay to watch other people play
Post by: Living-In-Clip on July 26, 2006, 05:22:27 PM: Quote from: Eiksirf
Are PC games still guilty with expansion paks? Xbox and PS3 are going to be in the same boat on this one, too, as is Nintendo depending on how they set up their online interface.

The sad truth is it makes good business sense. It just sucks that customers could be slighted for it.

Yeah, expansion packs are in general, consumer wise, idiotic. If they was priced at maybe $10 dollars, I could see it, but paying almost full price for an expansion , that usually includes three or four levels and a new weapon, well, it\'s insane.

I remember back durin\' Quake all the expansion packs. I was guilty of buying every single one that I could get my hands on. Same with Duke Nukem. Now that I look back on it, I can\'t remember one single thing about those add-ons, \'cept for maybe the railgun in Quake. Level wise and content wise, it was all unremarkable. And that sums up expansions in general, unremarkable.
Title: 360 Madden: Pay to watch other people play
Post by: mm on July 26, 2006, 06:09:23 PM: hence the term "expansion" ?
:confused:
Title: 360 Madden: Pay to watch other people play
Post by: Ace on July 26, 2006, 07:16:21 PM: Stupid and I wouldn\'t pay for it BUT . . . if freaks do then there is a market out there for it.
Title: 360 Madden: Pay to watch other people play
Post by: Living-In-Clip on July 26, 2006, 11:56:48 PM: Quote from: mm
hence the term "expansion" ?
:confused:

The problem isn\'t with the expansion, it\'s the content and price of content.

You know this as well as I do.