16 responses so far ↓

• 1 commander121 // Jan 21, 2008 at 5:36 pm

  good points

• 2 clstirens // Jan 21, 2008 at 9:37 pm

  Awesome stuff man.

  Digg’n this up.

• 3 Dexyn // Jan 21, 2008 at 9:40 pm

  My favorite question was “What relations?” Not because it was funny alone, but because it was sadly true.

• 4 Doc // Jan 21, 2008 at 9:49 pm

  @ clstirens

  Thanks man. That was almost my first novel. Congrats on finishing it,,, lol

  Doc

• 5 AtomicFlapjack // Jan 21, 2008 at 10:31 pm

  Digged, Man, I love you sarcastic gamer guys. What you said about Sony is very true.
  I would go out and at least rent any game you reccomend, just because I can be assured thet you are giving an honost review. Your pure awesomeness is why you guys are the only gaming blog I read daily. Keep up the excelent work!

• 6 john // Jan 21, 2008 at 11:41 pm

  this is just an xbot having a cry… boohoo

• 7 Kaz // Jan 22, 2008 at 3:41 am

  um, if bloggers are so important, then how come Sony is, by your own admition, about to woop MS\’s @ss in 2008, even without talking to you tiny nobodys. It seems you actually are not as powerful as you think, Sony can, has, and will do fine without the likes of you insignificant bloggers. You forget that Sony was #1 before your art came into existence, I think they know what they are doing, MS is frankly wasting money focusing on you because they are about to loose even after being nice to you. LOL

• 8 Jon Malloy // Jan 22, 2008 at 3:48 am

  “They return emails, and make even the smallest blog feel like they matter.”

  So they give you false impressions? Is that it?
  Bloggers, especially YOU, do NOT matter. F’ing get over yourselves!!

  And unless the war is won in America, Sony is the winner in this PS360 race seeing as it consistently rapes 360 worldwide. 250k difference for December USA and Japan in 360’s favour, and adding in Europe makes a nice 350k PS3 victory. That’s at 400 with tough competition and “no games no games no games”

  Yes, you can slip the “unbiased” Sony make comeback 2k8 hehey! comment, but honestly, the console brand that defined today’s gaming deserves much more respect. Sony hate is fervent in these sick blogs, and you deserve to be shunned by them.

• 9 Jon Malloy // Jan 22, 2008 at 3:51 am

  And PShome?
  That whole rant shows you have NO clue how much better this is than XBL. Not only do the features overlay into in-game XMB, but PSN has always been free, making it immeasurably superior.
  Currently, the only things against it? Yeah:

  Xbot: Bububu all my friends (0) cannot message me in game and no achievements for my e-peen!!!

  You HAVE been misled, people don’t pay for gaming online, chumps do, and MS introduced it.

• 10 Slashlen // Jan 22, 2008 at 5:02 am

  My answer for #2: You kinda touched on it. When will I have enough vacation time to attempt that much gaming again? December 2009. Dead serious. So yeah, kinda pissed.

  At least I won’t have to worry about Live then. By that time, the PS3 should be soundly kicking the 360’s ass.

• 11 Dalamornight // Jan 22, 2008 at 11:17 am

  Doc that was a great article and some very good question that would be great if they where ever answered. I always love coming here and seeing what you guys have to say about stuff always very informative and funny most of the time.

• 12 Nathan Z // Jan 22, 2008 at 12:26 pm

  That’s exactly what I wanted. I wanted an email appology from Microsoft regarding the Live outage over the holidays. As it turns out the Microsoft MVPs (Community Leaders, Important “gaming celebs”, ect) gota letter of appology. —–> The average joe subscriber was left off the mailing list.

  It’s a safe bet that all the MVPs KNEW there was a problem already, so it does no harm to apologize to them. The average joe subscribe, however, is a question mark to Microsoft. How many of us KNEW there was an outage? How many of us KNEW the outage was Microsoft’s fault? How many parents blamed themselves on Chirstmas day for not being able to connect to Live? How many of them blamed their ISP? Ect.. I imagine that the last thing Microsoft wanted to do as to alert all those “joe subscribers” of a problem with their service that was Microsoft’s fault.

  When I was working for an old employer of mine I frequently drove a high capacity van with 15 teenagers to various activities up to an hour outside of town. Before they ever let me into one of the vans they informed me, “If you’re ever in an accident NEVER admit fault. We don’t care if you’d just slammed a fifth of vodka and killed everyone in the vehicle but yourself… NEVER admit fault to the other party, to the police, or to any insurance agent you speak with. Let the insurance companies iron it out.”

  So, to solve the problem they offer a mediocre Xbox Live video game (that, to be fair, costs $2.50 more than the $5 monthly subscription charge). Only those people AWARE that the game is available for free between January 23rd and January 28th will download it (aka. Microsoft MVPs and all joe subscribers that knew the outage occured and that it was Microsofts fault….only those “in the know” or those lucky enough to stumble across a free download).

  This gets me back to my original beef with Microsoft. I DO NOT want to be treated like a liability. I want to be treated like a valued, reasonable customer who ONLY requires an email appology to put this issue behind him. I don’t even need a game…. or a free month service. Just some outward acknowledgement by Microsoft that THEY messed up my 12 day long video gaming binge.

• 13 Doc // Jan 22, 2008 at 1:35 pm

  @Nathan Z.

  Nice man. That’s an article in and of itself.

• 14 Iffo // Jan 23, 2008 at 9:35 am

  Well said, Doc! This piece almost sounds like it should be titled “Doc’s Rant (#1 to #4)”

• 15 JonMike // Jan 24, 2008 at 2:01 am

  Ok enough is enough. I am tired of all the ps3 fanboys saying psn is better than live because its free. dude i have both. 2 perks about the ps3, blue-ray and built in wi-fi. And thats it. the live dashboard is so inviting, i sometimes find myself on it for hours. As for the ps3 i simply get bored. i could go on for days but to kept it short, ps3 does alot of things like the 360, except the 360 does it better (way better). trust me. ps3 for movies and 360 for games. A TRUE gamer is not a fanboy. So please dont bash one or the other unless you have giving both sides a chance. this post is direct to comments.

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