oinkbat74,614 (47,755)

Wahey free stuff.

I could be the (randomly) chosen one...

egrgarigwrfriefthat's a comment...

No thanks. I don't want it. (but I made a comment, so I could win it MUAHAHA!!)

I have them both, but I know a friend that would like them (I'd have to re-gift it then)

I've yet to play American Nightmare & my GTX275 is begging to be abused.

Yep, Japanese Office 2013 doesn't come with PowerPoint unless I buy business package. Contacted MS but they said UK/US versions are region locked and won't install.

Business package is ~$600USD here and I refuse to pay that for PowerPoint.

Worse still: on the phone with them now and they confirmed the most insane thing ever...

If my laptop connects to the Internet in another country post-install, it will lock itself. What. The. Fuck?!? Microsoft have lost the plot.

they dun goofed!

Try Google Docs, it has a Powerpoint alternative & its free.

It has loads of alternatives. Heres my BD Checklist that works in Excel: http://tinyurl.com/oue96ve

The one in google drive just isn't flexible enough unfortunately. It's a good stop-gap but MS's version is unfortunately what I need

removed me from XBL, then TA, prob even FB. This is sad... I sent him a message, no reply, no nothing... Seriously...

and you're probably better off that way. He added a good amount of my friends, then after he removed me, he removed my friends. I'm still scratching my head on that one.

here's a song for ya \m/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFFQpd9akSg

aww

lol

ok, let me get Gozer's done on Ghostbusters...and I will contact you both...Thank You.

Count me in if not on a weekend

I can assist, as long as im not at work..

Is there every a point when any of you are putting your foot down? It's just blind fanboyism to support this at this point, a few games doesn't excuse this.

We don't all live in NA. Some of us already buy games new every time and only have the "pay full price" option. It's what I am already used to...

But that's the thing, the whole argument justifying all of this is because it doesn't affect you. What about the millions that it does affect?

Buying the console supports bad business, even if the used game thing doesn't affect you it affects a substantial amount of gamers regardless.

Affects a load of people who have basically been getting a "free ride" while I have to pay full price (A greater full price than US)? Why should I be bothered by that?

Games are costing more and more to make. If people don't want to help fund them, you are going to create a system where NO originality is encouraged because everyone

needs to go with what works. I would rather Americans and Brits pay full whack and get better games...

Because it affects a lot of people, being poed because your getting jibbed about paying full price is nonsense, having us suffer and being happy about is wrong.

The fee to play a borrowed/used game: $69.99.

That'd be like being happy that you don't have a family, and not giving two shits about finding out that someone's whole family was murdered.

Not really, they pay full price for the games that deserve it. If devs want our money look at games like Skyrim and Red Dead, full priced and hundreds of hours of gp

No edible, it is nothing like that at all and you are being silly.

As opposed to stuff like licensed games and many others that offer nothing new and minimal replayability. Those deserve to be at a reduced price.

I've never seen you banging on the MS doors demanding everyone else gets the same low prices as you. so you can't take the high and mighty on this

It's about cost = amount of playability. Being bitter solves nothing.

I'm worried that all this "monitoring" or whatever can f up my gaming experience. What if the game servers or my internet is down and it can't do the daily check?

Or what if i want to play, say, ME 4 ten years after it's release, but the servers are no longer available?

What i understand all the drm bs didn't work so well with Diablo 3 and the latest Simcity.

Jerk - if is cloud based, servers will always be up (same as steam basically)

At least that is how I read into things... 300,000 servers would suggest EVERYTHING goes cloud based which would be awesome

No more lag, because no more local-hosts with latency issues

Is equality a silly cause? I've never heard you make one valid argument about this being anything worthwhile, outside of false entitlement because you don't get the same

deals as everyone else. And how is wanting fair pricing silly? Should the cost of something equal the quality of it, or am i just a complete moron apparently?

I blame EA for my panicking, they just removed online passes so i'm pretty sure EA games have to be online. Plus all the server closures in the past.

Also the used game thing doesn't just affect places like gamestop and second hand stores, it also affects borrowing from a friend.

Ever wanted to borrow a game from a friend or knew someone who couldn't afford to buy a full priced game. Shit out of luck.

Take a step back and look at what you are writing... why does equality work only when it is in your favour? Second hand games affect companies who develop games, there

is zero dispute on that fact - developers and publishers get nothing from used game sales. It means that Tomb Raider can sell 4 million copies and still be a "failure"

as they are not making the returns based on the development costs.

It's not about equality being in my favor it's about it being as equal as possible, and i what was that remark about paying full price because you have to.

I'm aware of quite a few used game shops in japan if i'm not mistaken.... Of course it affects game companies but it affects the consumer even more.

So your saying a billion dollar corporation is more important then the consumer. I know a least a dozen people who only buy used because they can't afford full price.

Are you saying there shit out of luck? That's wrong, games need to be competitively priced at a rate that is both fair to the consumer and to the publisher/developer.

If a game is marketed properly and provides a good amount of content for the price gamers will buy it, there are failures but that's just the nature of the business.

Blocking used games are having a fee attached is wrong, even if they eliminate used games piracy will run rampant. That's the real problem.

That's what you're missing - this will smash piracy. If you've gotta connect periodically, your xbox will be blocked quickly if flashed.

Not really, piracy has been a thing for years. You say that now but hackers will figure it out, give them the benefit of the doubt.

Not to mention like i stated earlier it screws a lot of deserving gamers of games they may want to purchase but can't for financial reasons.

While I agree it is shit, that still isn't a good enough reason to ignore the fact games companies are losing money because of gamefly and gamestop etc.

THQ going bankrupt is a worrying sign.

But if this does happen gamefly and gamestop might go out of business, and even smaller used game stores would too.

Stupid ethical dilemmas! :/

Although to be fair i'd much rather EA or Activision go out of business then Gamefly or Gamestop...

I don't think the X-Bone looks that bad tbh... If its under my tv, it's not something I'm going to notice...

TV! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbWgUO-Rqcw

If Sony won't do something terribly wrong, they might get way bigger market share than MS would want to allow for the upcoming gen.

I dont believe all the rumors. I think it will turn out to be awesome simply for improved graphics, hardware and performance..regarding no used games and costly licenses

I'll believe it when I hear it from me but doubt it will change drastically. If they make it too costly to own a lot of games, it encourages piracy even more

I also cant fathom release date in this year. I think they have a lot left to tweek

its going to be this year to cash in on CoD Ghost =/ + christmas holiday + ebay. I wouldn't be surprised if they dashboard patch the used thing out in the future.

IDC anymore I wast expecting it to be shit as

Actually the used fee is unconfirmed by microsoft, either Microsoft was testing to see people reactions or they were fake rumors.

Not excited? But Kinect 2.0 dude - dude?? (Me neither. I'm sure there is more news to come soon, hopefully something worth getting excited about).

Of course you are. Yesterday's reveal wasn't for gamers like us, but about the technology and device in general.

We'll just have to see what E3 offers in terms of gaming before we draw any conclusions.

Must play mkv files without having to convert them to mp4. One can only hope. If it does I'll be happy to fork out.

Will need to be for games; DVD size is just too small for uncompressed textures.

You make a fine point.

Anything below 2TB should have to be considered ridiculous for a blue-ray console. Hopefully 500GB is the new "arcade version"

Yeah that shit will fill up quick. It's gonna be like my current 60GB drive, you can have like 2 or 3 games installed in addition to all the arcade games lol

I remember the 360 starting with a 20GB hard drive on release for the premium edition. I'm sure they'll come with bigger sizes at much higher prices

Confirmed: Any external HDD will work via the USB3.0 connections

Won't that be a bottleneck? I don't remember the exact specs of USB3.0 though.

Although last I checked even a 1 tv external drive will run you almost a 100$....

tb sorry

I'd hate to have to have my pulse rate over 150 for 100 cumulative in-game hours just to get a 5GS achievement. Maybe if it was worth 50 points or something...

Gears of War: Fitness Kinect - Seriously 5.0

Are there any prices yet?

nothing official probably 399 US at the cheapest....

The new Xbox may not even be released in Japan.

Myrtille - seriously? I know you'll possibly have inside info on this by that is absolute BS if true.

Agreed! No game backwards compatibility as yet, integrated Blu-ray (Sony kicked Microsoft's a** on that one, Smartglass (I never use it anyway), and

Kinect (which I only started playing this year when someone gave me a player) all integrate to make me await the PlayStation 4 debut in June.

*Sigh* I suppose so....yay for more waiting D:

Pretty much everything else that was rumored has been more or less confirmed if you do some research. No used games and always online depends on dev.

Hmm well I was hoping to get them all off of this instead of digging around...I did get distracted due to a call...but oh well XD

Just an FYI, Xbox One is not backwards combatible (Includes retail, arcade and GoD), so that back log of games, has to played on your 360... which makes me kinda sad...

I'd post a link the the X360a article that says this, but lazy

Sounding like the rumors are true about it blocking used games. If that's the case, it's back to Playstation for me.

Dont need the Xbox One, GRAW needs me more

Yes it does LOL

Lol yeah...good luck on g.r.a.w. lol considering the universal and team board cost you about 200 $ to do

Guess i have finished soon Team LB.... For universal i've got 5 consoles & 30 Accounts, should be enough

Going to need 36 to get pass nazapantera...trust me ..I just did it

And not to mention waffle is #1 right now..

Well Waffle told me that he had 10 accs, but some time ago. And DDShadow also didnt have 36 ACCs ô.o

If I get this new Xbox it wont be until the current one is dead...

Lulz.

could be neat but i'm not buying the new xbox just because of that.

Quantum Break looks like it could be cool.... Alan Wake + Fringe??

It'll be xbox video exclusive probably... same thing would cost you about 200 to watch every episode of Buffy

200*

FFS, Pounds... doesnt like the damn symbol.

Btw, "The Signal" no deaths achievement was easy... You had me worried Shimmering lol!

I guess its because I left it so damn long since finishing the game.... I always die in the boiler room.

Alan Wake was good, loved Fringe. Quantum Break HAS to be good

Featuring Alan Bishop!

Quantum your gonn be pissed after 5 minutes lol

We could play a game of 'Xbox bullshit bingo', featuring terms such as 'Kinect', 'innovative', 'exciting', 'revolutionary', 'backwards compatible', 'online only', etc. :D

A return to cartridges. You heard it here first.

Don't be silly Poopster, clearly cassette tapes a'la C64 are the future!

DRM protected, online only cassettes!

Yep, you need to leave your xbox connected for the 2hours required to load the games. And you're not allowed to leave the room during loading as Kinect will be watching!!

In other rumour news, there will be x-rated achievements linked to kinect catching you shaking hands with the one-eyed monster.

10 gs: Monkey Spanked. Masturbate for a combined 100 hours

5 gs: Epic Circle Jerk. Masturbate with full 8 player Xbox Live party.

2 girls 1 kinect?

You guys should stop giving the MS development department the wrong ideas.

http://postimg.org/image/4s917sykz/ I hope this works. :P XBox reveal bullshit bingo!

Haha, you used my 2 girls 1 kinect idea:-D

Well there is a streaming porn service coming (pun totally intended).

I'm glad I wasn't drinking. If I'd have drank every time they said "Kinected", I'd be too shitfaced to leave a comment. :D

Sometimes, I miss the simple joy of our old Commodore 64...although we only had the cassette deck with our VIC20. I suddenly feel older than I should...

Kinect: Let's Fap predicted to have the lowest ever TA ratio. Don't forget those handy screen wipes.