The worst offender for this DLC bullshit is Capcom they locked 12 characters in Street Fighter X Tekken that's already on the disc and expect the people who buy the game to pay for content that's already on the game.
The point was not about how some 0-day DLC is evil. No.
Using your example, an equivalent case would be that, instead of getting the physical media, you would have a note with a code and a legally unbinding promise that the you can play the game for a reasonable amount of time and two weeks later your game would stop starting up and an error message about "corrupted key, piracy suspected" would pop up.
It is about being able to play the game, not just the extra.
To be honest though you are placing a over sweeping fallacy on direct to download services, due to the terrible design of the XBLA, though if you do have your account registered to a xbox that is connected to live you can re-download said titles. Now as for the "cloud", and your campaign against business in general, you can't have a working system based on good faith and ideas either. Also this "Charlie" is a complete idiot.
XBLA games are ONLY playable on the same account you download it to now? OH MY GOD... I hate the new dashboard update but WHAT THE FUCK. i hate my life.
Nice commentary on DLC Razorfist. I agree with you 100%. While I do own a few downloaded titles, typically if the game is available on a disc and for d/l, I will always buy the disc, even if it'll cost me more. I prefer something tangible.
They've been taken to court before, and they are worthless. Not even a contest. What the legal authorities of the nation say is YOU CANNOT GIVE UP YOUR RIGHTS AS A PERSON OR CONSUMER. Not even willingly give them up. It doesn't matter HOW badly you want to be made a slave by clicking "agree", you can't get rid of those rights.
The problem is you have to get these assholes to court in the first place, and few people are willing or able to do it.
Not that this helps the situation at all, of course.
The corporations KNOW what they're doing is illegal and total bullshit. They know. Their lawyers know. They know they're standing on a legal house of cards. They absolutely know they can't legally make anyone give up a right as any more than they can own literal slaves. They also know that no one will stand up to them, or anyone that knows all this is able to stand up to them. Worse yet, each incident has to be dragged to court.
My Genesis is mine. I can hook that thing up whenever I wanna play it. Screw that "you have to be connected to the internet" thing. What does my ancient (but so wonderful) RPG have anything to do with being connected to the internet anyway? It's not even multiplayer in person, and there's no online modes for it that have been added. Therefore, there should be no internet needed to play it. I'm sure that's how it is with Golden Axe, too.
It's actually kind of funny to think about how PC games seem to be turning into glorified console ports while at the same time, consoles are trying to be more PC like (the legalese to disabuse customers* of the notion that they own the games that they've bought).
*As far as I know, console companies still refer to the people who buy them as "customers", as opposed to PC software developers, who prefer the word "users" (the idea being that they see OEMs or advertisers as their real customers).
PSN still lets you play the games on all accounts, and with some fan-dangling you can even open up foreign accounts to buy foreign games which you can then play on your main account. The games are tied to your accounts, not your console, but any games on your hard drive can be played by any account. Most games work in offline mode as well. I'm not saying Sony handles their online purchase structure perfectly or even well, but I'm glad it's not quite as bad as the shit you just described.
@CluelessBerk I've never had any console or PC damage a disc of mine. I have collected video games since the 80s, and I have only had a handful of games crap out on me. Maybe I am just lucky, or maybe I just take care of my shit. Disc Resurfacing helps too.
I like my hard copies. It allows me more freedom and a shiny plastic case to show off. The space a whole game takes on a system is too much. Streets of Rage 2 has a hard copy version on the ps3. You can find it in the Sonic Ultimate Collection, or something like that. I personally got the set for Shinning Force 2 and the Street of Rage 1-2-3.
I prefer physical media. It may be more expensive, but at least I can play it whenever the fuck I want to with no problems. This is why I collect video games. No one can tell me what I can and cannot do with them.
@xTRASHTALKERx Okay, well, I learned my lesson a while ago. I let people do what they want to do. I know it's easy to dismiss somebody entirely just because you take issue with one or two things they say. But I don't think that's the way life works, honestly. But hey, excuse the fuck out of me, for trying to shake up your snow globe a little to get you to reexamine things. I know that a lot of people just don't want to rock the boat ride into Hades. Well, carry on then...
@xTRASHTALKERx Maybe... then again, there are a lot of people still alive right now that wouldn't have been in the pre-internet age. Whatever man. Believe what you want. The reality is that this world is consumed by mania and delusion right now. The big joke of it all is that people will get mad for being ripped off for a few bucks worth of video game content, but they won't get mad about the fact that at least 956 dead people just voted in the South Carolina Republican primary.
Razorfist, get off your well-toned ass and start making daily videos. Seriously, why do all my favorite youtubers have to have jobs and real life's? It makes my life so much less entertaining.
Seriously though, even though I disagree with your opinion on SOPA/PIPA/ACTA, another good video. Can I ask a question? What's you're real name? If you don't want to answer for what ever reason, that's cool.
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Ha! Wow... yeah, sorry Razorfist, but you and your "church" could really use a healthy dose of the Alex Jones brand kool-aid... You think the world is just peachy? You must not be paying attention. You think the government doesn't have enough printed money to ruin the internet, just because they haven't secured the borders, which they opened in the first place? Flawless logic. I know video games are WAY more important... but here's a good video to get started with:
Alex Jones is an alarmist. He believes 9/11 was an inside job. What in FUCK does that have to do with me simply making the perfectly valid observation that the government can't even afford to keep its parks open, so it's unlikely they possess the fiduciary resources to fund a new, far-reaching regulatory bill?
Hell, Obama crammed his healthcare bill through congress, and they've already given up on it due to lack of cash.
@xRazorFistx Whatever bro. I'm not going to fight with you. Sometimes you just have to learn to live and let live, I guess... but if you really want to hear a dissenting opinion; I say the reason why they "don't have the funds" is because people in power are making a concerted effort to make those funds disappear, via hoarding, misappropriation, and fraud-waste-abuse. If you think that's not likely, then you have more faith in men than I do.
@xRazorFistx But this isn't about charity or humanitarianism. This is purely about control and subversion. Sure, I'd expect them to "not have the funds" to care for the poor, protect nature or secure the border from criminals trafficking substances which THEY also profit from. But when it comes to securing money, oil or control, you can bet your life that those fuckers will be onto it like white on rice, quicker than you can blink.
I know you said you did a license transfer already, but I had this exact problem with Sonic 1, 2, 3 and Knuckles as well as Streets of Rage 2 when I had to replace my deceased XBox 360. I deleted the games from my hard drive, cleared it's cache (can't remember the exact method, but it's along the lines of "Go into the HDD and press Y on the controller"), did a license transfer then redownloaded the games.
Was it frustrating? Yes. Needlessly complicated? Yes. Did it work? Absolutely!
The US needs better consumer protection laws. They try the same shit over here in Norway but just give them an indication that you'll call the consumer protection agency we have here and they'll bend over backwards to please you. And I agree: Cloud computing is the end of ownership which is pretty much the foundation of western economy. We wil now be at the mercy of our corporate lords. All hail the new feudalism!
@naleb514 and for your information...being pissedoff because of what he said and what he experience is called : unhappy customer ...and he is smart enough to not leave it alone. Only a moron would be happy for that. And if you think that being a customer or consumer who knows his rights and is unhappy about a service is being a crybaby...then my friend you are mindbranded and you should stop using your penis as a hand exercise tool... open your freakin eyes
@naleb514 elaborate,why do you think so? Please teach us mortals ,with your superior grammar skills. But jokes aside,you are a hypocrite - you left out specifics and just gave a rant about everything...this is low in "value". Why is he a crybaby? It's like saying something is chocolate just because it's brown...I don't see any crybaby-ing in this video.
Sorry to tell you that when I changed console I didnt had to re-buy games... I JUST HAD TO DO A LISCENCE TRANSFERT TO THE OTHER CONSOLE. its free. and its a security to prevent people from sharing DLC content. razorfist fan base are such scrubs.
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razorfist once again you look like a cry baby when you dont know what your talking about... liscence change is your solution. you didnt even exposed this topic properly.
I already changed the licenses. It was the FIRST THING the gibbering idiot providing 'tech support' had me do. It did not solve the problem because, in his own words, 'Sega's licenses operate independently of Microsoft's'.
A license to own and use a goddamn game? You buy something, you own it. That's how the whole consumer process has existed since the beginning of civilization. This current debacle is due to publishers shitting themselves when they realize that the information age has rendered them obsolete, and they screw consumers over in an attempt to stay relevant.
Like someone else mentioned, did you do the whole license change? When my 360 went down, I put the hard drive on the replacement box and had the same notice about the paid for games were not there. I did a quick search, found the changing over license on xbox.com, and was done in a few minutes, all full games available offline.
DLC is a piece of shit, they make a half assed game and then charge you 60 more dollars to bu the rest, a bunch of fucking suckers who buy this shit, give me a disc anyday over dlc
Also wii has the same ties only to the console and only permitted to that one console. Even if you take both into customer support and ask them to do so.
@Bob0p Not the same thing at all. You might not be allowed to buy one copy and put it on two consoles. (Too easy to buy one copy and give/sell it to all of your friends otherwise.) Doesn't mean your console dies you can't redownload it. Yes you can. You can even have your saves transferred. I've done it. (my kid had broken the Wii) Just because one company doesn't believe in satisfying customers doesn't mean they all don't.
@PatternistSlave Um 1. if your system bricks or breaks the wrong part your fucked out of all your games
2. Locked to a online account > locked to a console
with a online account system atleast you can take your games to any console, and look psn did that for a while and it did fine. look steam & desura also did that for a while again did fine. steam is drm though so fuck it
3. You are seriously defending a company for fucking up really? (no shit they all don't desura is decent)
thankfully most psn games don't use drm and it is relatively easy to recover them if your console dies (i know from experience my first ps3 overheated to death) but its suck now that you can only have the games active in 2 consoles at once, when it used it to be 5, i had to deactivate some friends consoles from my account so i could re download some of my games
When you talk about Microsoft; you are talking about a company that has operated in a monopolist fashion (sometimes in direct violation of Federal court orders) for decades. Last I heard the courts had told them they were in violation of Anti Trust legislation by their purchase of NBC. Bill Gates is richer than god. Microsoft is used to operating outside of and without regard to the law. I doubt they are worried about claims of false advertizing or fraud from the peons who buy their products.
Your Xbox live story pretty much sounds like mine when I visited my good friend back home. Although my story is a bit different (I ended up recovering the game when I connected to the network again). Although this was back in 2009, the last time I lived in the US.
Okay, so the "cloud" is really a backwards ass version of communism. Instead of stuff being owned by the community it is owned by a monolithic corporation.
The games have to be downloaded twice if you have two accounts and both want to play it?! It doesn't just download it to the console, like the Wii does with its Virtual Console stuff? That's really... wow. I'm at a loss for words, and my interest in owning a 360 or a PS3 has dropped. >(
Games you buy on gog.com are still yours! I'm sure the terms of service say they're not. They have since the 90s, but the games are DRM free and go right on your hard drive. Too bad the only new title is Witcher 2.
Microsoft Windows -- keep paying $1000 every few years just to keep your initial purchase useful.
Microsoft XBOX -- keep re-buying the same console once the initial warranty runs out.
The DLC procedure seems to me to be about preventing pirate copying by not giving the buyer the original game in the first place but in its stead -- a drumroll please -- a copy of that game. You know that you are fucked when they sell you a pirate copy for the retail price -- not even Russian mafia does that.
Stuff that you download through PSN is connected to your account, so if you get a new PS3 you're able to redownload everything. Also, what sort of digital distribution would satisfy your definition of "ownership"?
Seriously!? If you purchase an xbox downloadable game you can only use it on one account? That's fucking stupid and greedy I used to own an xbox and I bought downlodable games and my family were able to play the games on different account with no problems now if I decide to buy another xbox the downloadble games I purchase are not available to all accounts? Fuck that.
It's about damn time somebody exposed this cloud bullshit (and all the other things with it) as a total scam. All too often I see people rushing to the next Steam sale without once realizing they just got themselves a rental.
I bought Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 and immediately after purchasing it I had major regrets. Right at the main screen a message pops up explicitly telling me I do not own a copy of the game. It's amazing how that never once seemed to piss anybody off.
More people need to watch you. Everyone doing anti-SOPA videos at this point just want attention, when it's something that the government would have to be dumber than Angry Joe to actually try to... Uh, do it.
The problem I have is that while there are some physical media released of certain successful XBLA games there really aren't enough. There are a lot of games I would gladly pay double to get them on physical media if that were at all possible. I would like to play these games a few years from now and not have to worry about the service being defunct. Well maybe if all these guys sold at GOG.
@kea919306 Symbols means things. I'm aware that this symbol is rooted in norse mythology, as it's the case with the mjölnir. But the white pride folks annexed this symbols (as the nazis did with the swastika) and therefore it means something else nowadays.
@Cynic667 That's a Celtic Cross, a symbol with historic significance that far predates any tenuous white nationalist connotations it has today -- much like the Iron Cross. What's more alarming is that he has books by Pat Buchanan and Michael Savage in his profile.
Have you also noticed that the new Xbox 360 sucks so hard it should double as a vacuum? My original Arcade version runs faster, more smoothly, and more reliably than my brother's new one ever has. And it's his SECOND one. Though mine's recently started having trouble connecting, which I don't see as a coincidence. I also love that you can no longer purchase hard drives made by Microsoft. They're all no-brands from China that don't work.
steam fanboys are the worse the fact they think its a ok form of drm, which it is not, any service that can remove your games from you for no reason is bull it just seems like a majority of pc gamers are will to bend over and take it.
Maybe its because im a bit of a collector but whenever a game comes out i always try to get a physical copy(pc player) (its also about 10 eu cheaper here than the online price).
Whats always bugged me about this enforcement of steam and other digital distribution is basically the thought that if say valve goes bankrupt and steam just ceases to exist i wont have any way of playing the games i actually purchased and have a physical copy of.
mmm, i can take a broken game disk, i'd buy a new game disk. braking down hard-where i can take, i'll fix my console. my acount says i cant download cause its on the max amount of systems, fuck. and it already is a big mess with difference between the
US and European digital releases. holding multiple accounts for diffident reagents and now holding accounts just to repurchase old games you already bought?
And there goes the only reason I ever wanted an Xbox 360 to begin with. At least with Steam I can install the games I bought on any PC I own without a hitch. I guess I'm lucky I haven't run into any real DRM so far, or all my damn games would be stuck on a useless 5-year-old laptop.
I'm so sick of people thinking that the Government won't pass or enforce SOPA. I'll say it again, they pass the NDAA, they will pass anything. This SOPA bill (or whatever its next name will be) doesn't have anything to do with stoping "Piracy", its only here to cripple the internet. Why take a bill like this so seriously now? Why is the bill worded so broadly? Because the government saw what happened in Egypt and Libya, and they see the internet as a threat against their corrupt system.
@BaldSpaceMarine Every single minimal support necessary for SOPA and PIPA to stay above "cadaveric state" is now withdrawn,reducing the propositions to a self-induced blowjob from Internet users by now. Will similar bills appear eventually? Why,of course; but as of now,this false attempt to diminish piracy is more languid than 1up.
And does anybody know if Nintendo's virtual console follows this prerrogative? I've never actually encountered any issues similar to those expressed by razorfist.
Physical purchase is not as full proof as you think on PC. Many retail purchased games (Such as Skyrim, and the upcoming Mass Effect 3) require you to download and launch the game through a 3rd party client. If this becomes a regular occurrence, then yes, physical media will become a thing of the past. At least on PC.
That SOPA comment pissed me the hell off. SOPA is a bad thing, it has a good chance of fucking things up considerably, why does Razorfist have to be contrarian on everything?
I never argued that SOPA isn't a bad thing. I agree completely that it sets a negative precedent.
But if you think the government has the fiscal resources at its disposal to enforce the bill, when they lack the resources to do simple things like secure our border with Mexico, you should cut back on the Alex Jones kool-aid.
@xRazorFistx I'm not entirely sure the government needs to enforce it. This bill, if passed will be used extensively by the greedy-as-fuck entertainment industry to give cease and desist orders to anything they don't like. The simple threat of such a thing will create a signifigantly different web, a much worse one. This is all theoretical, but if you think that the entertainment industry won't jump on this bill at every oppurtunity they can think again. Capcom may get their revenge against you!
@kea919306 Do you know how many things will simply cease to exist if this bill is passed? Do you know how many people will be out of a job? I think thats the very fucking definition of an ass-fucking? I'm not trying to criticize anyone here, but many high profile people like TotalBiscuit, Spoony, or, hell ANY ONLINE VIDEO REVIEW from websites like the Escapist, RockPaperShotgun, are all in danger from this bill. No, they won't ban everyone on the internet, they will ban plenty.
@TheWoodaba i dont think you read my actual response and procedeed to furiously type an angry comment
Of course its a bad thing and no one should sit idly by while they try to pass it.
Im saying that even if it does nothing as bad as you think is going to happen,
The DNS blocking has already been written off of it which was what was threatening these people in the first place and the actual bill has been currently shelved
If the US cant secure its own borders they cant secure the net
@kea919306 It wasn't an angry comment, you just came across as someone saying. "Phht, don't be an idiot, they're not going to do that." It is still a very bad, amoral bill. It will still end the careers of many people on the internet. The bill is most certainly not dead, I did a Politics A-Level, this is common practice for congress to shelve bill, wait until the opposition has died down, quietly reintroduce it, and pass it. THIS BILL IS NOT DEAD. Razorfist already made the border joke, btw.
@xRazorFistx Just because the government fails to do something in one area doesn't mean it won't overextend itself in another. They're already drafting a SOPA/PIPA successor and claiming it's to fight child pornography, similar to how the PATRIOT Act was mainly used for drug arrests.
@xRazorFistx I don't think securing the Mexican border is as simple as you'd like to think, all of the manpower and physical surveillance to cover that area. Whereas the internet, which really is only vast from a figurative standpoint, can be surveyed by a smaller number of people. And while the government might not have the resources to take everyone to court, it's the fear that their company might get dragged in, AND the US wasting those resources, is what makes it so bad.
Its not government don't have the resources to secure the border with Mexico...its they don't want to.
The why varies...but its clear they don't want to.
As for SOPA...well they do seem to want to do that.
Otherwise...I'm content with the fact I did not, will not, and have no interest in buying an overglorified renting system. Thank you for securing me with that knowledge.
Sorry but I some agree and disagree with this rant. On Xbox live customer service when my 360 got the RROD back in 2009. There restore my purchases. Then when just right after the new update I got a slim 360 and I was able to do a account transfer and re downloaded them without customer service. Theirs menu options on the website and on the console go to download activity (history).
In the case of Steam, they've a system in place where if the system ever shuts down, they will destroy the authentication servers and all games will be "detached" from the service, handing the license over to the purchasers. Unfortunately Steamworks games only work online for the most part; sad, because just "boxed" games sold on Steam run fine offline. (usually third-party titles) Companies just need to learn to exercise trust in their customers, and transparency, as far as I'm concerned.
*nods* Extra disconcerning considering many of my favorite games this generations are XBLA games. I don't even want to THINK about what will happen when the next console generation rolls around and MS takes the 360 portion of XBox Live offline, possibly rendering EVERYTHING I bought unplayable.
We know they took the online functionality of original Xbox games down a year and a half ago or so. At which point does it eclipse into the world of false advertising?
Because if I buy these games, it says - plain as day - 'XBox Live Compatible' on the front. They are essentially removing part of the product they've sold me, after the fact.
RazorFist are you wearing a cross hair pendent for JFK?
anyway you it the nail on the head. The real scary part is they start with something that effects a smaller gourp of people, then build to the next level. the death of print is next. if the take are entertainment, the thing we need are soon to be in danger. we have to fight.
I find "The Cloud" to be a fitting name...that shit can dissipate at any moment like vapor and all your files are gone. It was in the TOS, though...buried between mind-numbingly boring and vague legalese. I don't think enough people can stop the momentum...within 2 generations, a console won't even have physical media.
Never thought of it that way... hehe, even my physical copies of games are basically "force-added" to Steam nowadays, like Skyrim. Woohoo, capitalism! 8D
It's bullshit. If Valve were to go out of business, or the FBI was to arrest Gabe Newell, and then Steam is suddenly shut down, I might as well shove my Skyrim DVD into the microwave, and then play Morrowind - which I actually own.
And this is why I stick to emulators and mooch off friends who have consoles when I have a hankering for Assassin's Creed. Atleast with computers you can learn to modify them outside a cooporation's restrictions, sometimes illegally.
While you have a head and use it more than 90 percent of all of America, I don't think you have ever heard of Gamersgate, GOG, or the Indie Bundle. For those services, you actually own the game and can play them whenever you want. And if not those their is the shady way (pirating and emulators). Their is always a way friend.
you know i subscribe to you because you don't seem to have your head up your ass....but you just spent 4 and a half minutes plus time it took you to upload a video when a 30 second google search would have helped you.....
I own a sega mega drive which is over 20 years old and I can still play games on it to this day.
I know todays and the next will not do this and as a consumer who believes in long lasting quality products, I know I'm not purchasing the next consoles at all because of this.
So far I find razorfist half-right on digital media.I have 2 accounts on xbl on my 360 and have purchased games from games on demand on one account and played them on the other.However,I find it retarded that saves can only exist on one singular account.This means if I get far in a game say Deus Ex on 1 account,I can't continue it in the other.
Thank you for articulating what I couldn't. Downloading games is fucking ridiculous, if I buy a game I should be allowed to fucking play it whenever I want.
It's all downhill from here, man. First CDs, then hard drives for software upgrades and downloadable content/games. Don't forget your amazing built-in hard drive can crash, leaving you completely fucked.
Here's a fun question: Assuming the gaming industry continues to take consumers for granted like the rest of the entertainment industry has been, do you think a second crash is possible?
@NecrophageonIII Games are far too much a part of our culture at this point to just disappear. Asking if there will be a video game crash any time soon is almost like asking if there will be a movie crash, or a music crash, or a TV show crash.
@321cheeseman Probably. Heck, more than probably.... People just consume for the sake of consumption. Still, something's gotta give. You can only stretch things so far before someone either does something amazing, or people tire of it.
@NecrophageonIII The major franchises are enough to prevent a video game crash. When the original crash happened, the market was constantly divided by the emerging clones of the last year's hit games with very little gameplay merit. Right now they are all about the big hard-hitters like the FPS franchises, which will keep the market shares from equally dividing between the mediocre clones and the hard-hitters.
In short, the profits are high and thus a crash is unlikely.
@fingrid I suppose the question was clumsily worded. I don't think a full-blown crash where everyone abandons gaming is even possible.
...but you can only milk franchises and copy ideas for so long before people start losing interest completely. Part of the original crash was confusion amongst consumers from having too many options. Now I see a problem where the options are too few - though maybe I'm not looking hard enough. :P
Maybe a video game "recession" would be a more apt term.
@NecrophageonIII I strongly disagree. I have expected the death of the FPS genre for a long time, thinking it is like a strawberry pie and people are bound to get fed up with it very quickly. In its stead the genre is more like porn: the audience will get bored of exploring one product demonstration of its looks and functions, but once a new product is presented, people happily continue the cycle with the barely-distinct, new product.
Gotta agree with you there Razorfist (I usually do) about downloadable games. Only if I really desire the game and it's exclusive to download only (Steam is cool with me for TF2, Portal, & HL series and Blizzard with WoW) will I buy it. I just prefer to have a physical copy to make sure I'm in control of the merchandise I paid for, because anything could wrong with an online copy. *Dons tinfoil hat*
Steam is so badly programmed, I mean honestly I've seen it use up to 2GB of memory while it DOWNLOADED Oblivion and considering not everyone in the known universe has fiber-optic that's two gigs of RAM I won't soon get back until its finished, making some games entirely unplayable while I wait because they themselves also need a tanker of free memory. Oh, and Steam has been around since 2003 so its absolutely insane its still so bugged.
Couldn't have said it better myself. Seriously...if I tried I'd be stuttering my words all the time. All kidding aside...since this is the direction gaming seems to be going I don't think it'll be too long before I just bow out completely. It's come to the pint where we're paying $60+ for beta games to be fixed through patches ( mostly unsuccessfully I might ad) later.
You don't make as many videos or as often as you should :( speaking of that is there any possibility of getting an Assassin's Creed Revelations review? I know its a series that has fallen out of favour with you but I presume that would only make the review more interesting :p
Yngwie Malmsteen reference ftw. Even though I really like malmsteen, its still cool that you could make that reference!
metlguitar02 2 days ago
The worst offender for this DLC bullshit is Capcom they locked 12 characters in Street Fighter X Tekken that's already on the disc and expect the people who buy the game to pay for content that's already on the game.
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@Nidav3 You missed the point.
The point was not about how some 0-day DLC is evil. No.
Using your example, an equivalent case would be that, instead of getting the physical media, you would have a note with a code and a legally unbinding promise that the you can play the game for a reasonable amount of time and two weeks later your game would stop starting up and an error message about "corrupted key, piracy suspected" would pop up.
It is about being able to play the game, not just the extra.
fingrid 2 days ago
To be honest though you are placing a over sweeping fallacy on direct to download services, due to the terrible design of the XBLA, though if you do have your account registered to a xbox that is connected to live you can re-download said titles. Now as for the "cloud", and your campaign against business in general, you can't have a working system based on good faith and ideas either. Also this "Charlie" is a complete idiot.
AEthianthewanderer 2 weeks ago
Steam support is way better than xbox live though
I could list all of the times they saved my butt but it wouldn't fit
FolstrimHori 2 weeks ago
XBLA games are ONLY playable on the same account you download it to now? OH MY GOD... I hate the new dashboard update but WHAT THE FUCK. i hate my life.
DJSessum 2 weeks ago
Nice commentary on DLC Razorfist. I agree with you 100%. While I do own a few downloaded titles, typically if the game is available on a disc and for d/l, I will always buy the disc, even if it'll cost me more. I prefer something tangible.
UncleJer410 2 weeks ago
ToS Agreements are legally bullshit.
They've been taken to court before, and they are worthless. Not even a contest. What the legal authorities of the nation say is YOU CANNOT GIVE UP YOUR RIGHTS AS A PERSON OR CONSUMER. Not even willingly give them up. It doesn't matter HOW badly you want to be made a slave by clicking "agree", you can't get rid of those rights.
The problem is you have to get these assholes to court in the first place, and few people are willing or able to do it.
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Not that this helps the situation at all, of course.
The corporations KNOW what they're doing is illegal and total bullshit. They know. Their lawyers know. They know they're standing on a legal house of cards. They absolutely know they can't legally make anyone give up a right as any more than they can own literal slaves. They also know that no one will stand up to them, or anyone that knows all this is able to stand up to them. Worse yet, each incident has to be dragged to court.
KittysDawn 3 weeks ago in playlist More videos from xRazorFistx
This is by far my favorite of your VLOG series.
My Genesis is mine. I can hook that thing up whenever I wanna play it. Screw that "you have to be connected to the internet" thing. What does my ancient (but so wonderful) RPG have anything to do with being connected to the internet anyway? It's not even multiplayer in person, and there's no online modes for it that have been added. Therefore, there should be no internet needed to play it. I'm sure that's how it is with Golden Axe, too.
SuzuriHeinze 1 month ago
It's actually kind of funny to think about how PC games seem to be turning into glorified console ports while at the same time, consoles are trying to be more PC like (the legalese to disabuse customers* of the notion that they own the games that they've bought).
*As far as I know, console companies still refer to the people who buy them as "customers", as opposed to PC software developers, who prefer the word "users" (the idea being that they see OEMs or advertisers as their real customers).
johnroche 1 month ago
PSN still lets you play the games on all accounts, and with some fan-dangling you can even open up foreign accounts to buy foreign games which you can then play on your main account. The games are tied to your accounts, not your console, but any games on your hard drive can be played by any account. Most games work in offline mode as well. I'm not saying Sony handles their online purchase structure perfectly or even well, but I'm glad it's not quite as bad as the shit you just described.
JEMdev 1 month ago in playlist More videos from xRazorFistx
Your voice is too generic, change it. Just kidding haha
BlassKain17 1 month ago
@CluelessBerk I've never had any console or PC damage a disc of mine. I have collected video games since the 80s, and I have only had a handful of games crap out on me. Maybe I am just lucky, or maybe I just take care of my shit. Disc Resurfacing helps too.
VoreTechz1985 1 month ago
I like my hard copies. It allows me more freedom and a shiny plastic case to show off. The space a whole game takes on a system is too much. Streets of Rage 2 has a hard copy version on the ps3. You can find it in the Sonic Ultimate Collection, or something like that. I personally got the set for Shinning Force 2 and the Street of Rage 1-2-3.
SecretSquaff 1 month ago 3
I remember when you put a cart into a console and you could play video games. That was amazing.
LordsSky 1 month ago
hmmm, you know I don't think the same problem is present with the wii's virtual console.
REDGUY2764 1 month ago
Ah, the "progressive" myth. You nailed it. When government intervention became a new idea is beyond me.
geddoezz 1 month ago
I prefer physical media. It may be more expensive, but at least I can play it whenever the fuck I want to with no problems. This is why I collect video games. No one can tell me what I can and cannot do with them.
VoreTechz1985 1 month ago 3
is that a white power necklace? =/
shinmenreiko 1 month ago
@xTRASHTALKERx /watch?v=9hxNbreGmL8
CrazyHorse1246 1 month ago
@xTRASHTALKERx Okay, well, I learned my lesson a while ago. I let people do what they want to do. I know it's easy to dismiss somebody entirely just because you take issue with one or two things they say. But I don't think that's the way life works, honestly. But hey, excuse the fuck out of me, for trying to shake up your snow globe a little to get you to reexamine things. I know that a lot of people just don't want to rock the boat ride into Hades. Well, carry on then...
CrazyHorse1246 1 month ago
@xTRASHTALKERx Maybe... then again, there are a lot of people still alive right now that wouldn't have been in the pre-internet age. Whatever man. Believe what you want. The reality is that this world is consumed by mania and delusion right now. The big joke of it all is that people will get mad for being ripped off for a few bucks worth of video game content, but they won't get mad about the fact that at least 956 dead people just voted in the South Carolina Republican primary.
CrazyHorse1246 1 month ago
Razorfist, get off your well-toned ass and start making daily videos. Seriously, why do all my favorite youtubers have to have jobs and real life's? It makes my life so much less entertaining.
Seriously though, even though I disagree with your opinion on SOPA/PIPA/ACTA, another good video. Can I ask a question? What's you're real name? If you don't want to answer for what ever reason, that's cool.
gthec9909 1 month ago
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Ha! Wow... yeah, sorry Razorfist, but you and your "church" could really use a healthy dose of the Alex Jones brand kool-aid... You think the world is just peachy? You must not be paying attention. You think the government doesn't have enough printed money to ruin the internet, just because they haven't secured the borders, which they opened in the first place? Flawless logic. I know video games are WAY more important... but here's a good video to get started with:
/watch?v=vQR8uNvZPQU
CrazyHorse1246 1 month ago
@CrazyHorse1246
Alex Jones is an alarmist. He believes 9/11 was an inside job. What in FUCK does that have to do with me simply making the perfectly valid observation that the government can't even afford to keep its parks open, so it's unlikely they possess the fiduciary resources to fund a new, far-reaching regulatory bill?
Hell, Obama crammed his healthcare bill through congress, and they've already given up on it due to lack of cash.
xRazorFistx 1 month ago 10
@xRazorFistx Whatever bro. I'm not going to fight with you. Sometimes you just have to learn to live and let live, I guess... but if you really want to hear a dissenting opinion; I say the reason why they "don't have the funds" is because people in power are making a concerted effort to make those funds disappear, via hoarding, misappropriation, and fraud-waste-abuse. If you think that's not likely, then you have more faith in men than I do.
CrazyHorse1246 1 month ago
@xRazorFistx But this isn't about charity or humanitarianism. This is purely about control and subversion. Sure, I'd expect them to "not have the funds" to care for the poor, protect nature or secure the border from criminals trafficking substances which THEY also profit from. But when it comes to securing money, oil or control, you can bet your life that those fuckers will be onto it like white on rice, quicker than you can blink.
CrazyHorse1246 1 month ago
@xRazorFistx well fuckin said
tdjorda1 1 month ago in playlist More videos from xRazorFistx
@xRazorFistx If you could hear yourself talking, you wouldn't stop throwing up, do the world a solid and drink bleach.
Angryblacksign 2 weeks ago
@Angryblacksign Do me a 'solid'. Don't use the word 'solid' as a noun.
xRazorFistx 2 weeks ago 3
Jeeze, I can't even tell of the right person, Sorry xRazorFistx, I just stop talking.
Angryblacksign 2 weeks ago
@Angryblacksign
No biggie, brother.
xRazorFistx 2 weeks ago
I noticed that necklace. What's the symbol? It looks kind of like a celtic cross inside another circle.
CrazyCheeseMagee 1 month ago
Fuck that noise, I'll just pirate that shit.
Redirukod 1 month ago
All my Arcade games work fine.
Except older sega games I bought (like Sonic 1)
joahkun 1 month ago
I know you said you did a license transfer already, but I had this exact problem with Sonic 1, 2, 3 and Knuckles as well as Streets of Rage 2 when I had to replace my deceased XBox 360. I deleted the games from my hard drive, cleared it's cache (can't remember the exact method, but it's along the lines of "Go into the HDD and press Y on the controller"), did a license transfer then redownloaded the games.
Was it frustrating? Yes. Needlessly complicated? Yes. Did it work? Absolutely!
Afr0Blu3 1 month ago
The US needs better consumer protection laws. They try the same shit over here in Norway but just give them an indication that you'll call the consumer protection agency we have here and they'll bend over backwards to please you. And I agree: Cloud computing is the end of ownership which is pretty much the foundation of western economy. We wil now be at the mercy of our corporate lords. All hail the new feudalism!
Sandvik83 1 month ago
@naleb514 and for your information...being pissedoff because of what he said and what he experience is called : unhappy customer ...and he is smart enough to not leave it alone. Only a moron would be happy for that. And if you think that being a customer or consumer who knows his rights and is unhappy about a service is being a crybaby...then my friend you are mindbranded and you should stop using your penis as a hand exercise tool... open your freakin eyes
Lywnis 1 month ago
@naleb514 elaborate,why do you think so? Please teach us mortals ,with your superior grammar skills. But jokes aside,you are a hypocrite - you left out specifics and just gave a rant about everything...this is low in "value". Why is he a crybaby? It's like saying something is chocolate just because it's brown...I don't see any crybaby-ing in this video.
Lywnis 1 month ago
@Lywnis
Sorry to tell you that when I changed console I didnt had to re-buy games... I JUST HAD TO DO A LISCENCE TRANSFERT TO THE OTHER CONSOLE. its free. and its a security to prevent people from sharing DLC content. razorfist fan base are such scrubs.
Naleb514 1 month ago
Good thing I dont purchase anything on DLC. I'd rather own all my games physically. Even if I have to dust off my Genesis to play streets of rage.
ceramiclion 1 month ago
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razorfist once again you look like a cry baby when you dont know what your talking about... liscence change is your solution. you didnt even exposed this topic properly.
Naleb514 1 month ago
@Naleb514
For the fifth time.
I already changed the licenses. It was the FIRST THING the gibbering idiot providing 'tech support' had me do. It did not solve the problem because, in his own words, 'Sega's licenses operate independently of Microsoft's'.
xRazorFistx 1 month ago 10
@xRazorFistx
so you worked at a gamestop and you needed a tech support to do liscence change? AHAHAHAHAHAHA you are the best !!! what a fail.
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so you worked at a gamestop and you needed a tech support to do liscence change? AHAHAHAHAHAHA you are the best !!! what a fail.
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@xRazorFistx
so you worked at a gamestop and you needed a tech support to do liscence change? hahahaha you are the best !!! what a fail.
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@xRazorFistx
so you worked at a gamestop and you needed a tech support to do liscence change? hahahaha you are the best !!! what a fail.
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@xRazorFistx
so you worked at a gamestop and you needed a tech support to do liscence change? hahahaha you are the best !!! what a fail.
Naleb514 1 month ago
@Naleb514 License change? Are you kidding me?
A license to own and use a goddamn game? You buy something, you own it. That's how the whole consumer process has existed since the beginning of civilization. This current debacle is due to publishers shitting themselves when they realize that the information age has rendered them obsolete, and they screw consumers over in an attempt to stay relevant.
Froggy22651 1 month ago
@Froggy22651 and yes its frequent for some software to ask for a liscence, just like windows.
Naleb514 1 month ago
where the fuck is @TheAnonMessage to show these corporate fucks whats what!..
onesian 1 month ago
Like someone else mentioned, did you do the whole license change? When my 360 went down, I put the hard drive on the replacement box and had the same notice about the paid for games were not there. I did a quick search, found the changing over license on xbox.com, and was done in a few minutes, all full games available offline.
ogmaster1 1 month ago
DLC is a piece of shit, they make a half assed game and then charge you 60 more dollars to bu the rest, a bunch of fucking suckers who buy this shit, give me a disc anyday over dlc
Chudmeister 1 month ago
And people wonder why piracy is so rampant. If we weren't shitted on by the overlords, maybe people would want to support you.
Nightmaresins 1 month ago
Also wii has the same ties only to the console and only permitted to that one console. Even if you take both into customer support and ask them to do so.
Bob0p 1 month ago
@Bob0p Not the same thing at all. You might not be allowed to buy one copy and put it on two consoles. (Too easy to buy one copy and give/sell it to all of your friends otherwise.) Doesn't mean your console dies you can't redownload it. Yes you can. You can even have your saves transferred. I've done it. (my kid had broken the Wii) Just because one company doesn't believe in satisfying customers doesn't mean they all don't.
PatternistSlave 1 month ago
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Bob0p 1 month ago
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@PatternistSlave Um 1. if your system bricks or breaks the wrong part your fucked out of all your games
2. Locked to a online account > locked to a console
with a online account system atleast you can take your games to any console, and look psn did that for a while and it did fine. look steam & desura also did that for a while again did fine. steam is drm though so fuck it
3. You are seriously defending a company for fucking up really? (no shit they all don't desura is decent)
Bob0p 1 month ago
thankfully most psn games don't use drm and it is relatively easy to recover them if your console dies (i know from experience my first ps3 overheated to death) but its suck now that you can only have the games active in 2 consoles at once, when it used it to be 5, i had to deactivate some friends consoles from my account so i could re download some of my games
bazzjedimaster 1 month ago
When you talk about Microsoft; you are talking about a company that has operated in a monopolist fashion (sometimes in direct violation of Federal court orders) for decades. Last I heard the courts had told them they were in violation of Anti Trust legislation by their purchase of NBC. Bill Gates is richer than god. Microsoft is used to operating outside of and without regard to the law. I doubt they are worried about claims of false advertizing or fraud from the peons who buy their products.
PatternistSlave 1 month ago
Oh, and this fucking pisses me off...(that digital content isn't "mine").
Octoberfleshed 1 month ago
Your Xbox live story pretty much sounds like mine when I visited my good friend back home. Although my story is a bit different (I ended up recovering the game when I connected to the network again). Although this was back in 2009, the last time I lived in the US.
Octoberfleshed 1 month ago
Okay, so the "cloud" is really a backwards ass version of communism. Instead of stuff being owned by the community it is owned by a monolithic corporation.
How the fuck is that "progressive"?
DaveElectric 1 month ago
@DaveElectric They've progressed into a better method to screw you over.
rgmztxy 1 month ago
I really hope that physical media doesn't get phased out. I don't want to be dependent on an online connection or some server out in god knows where.
skugglerthrash 1 month ago in playlist The Rageaholic VLOG Series
Wait, wait, wait a minute.
The games have to be downloaded twice if you have two accounts and both want to play it?! It doesn't just download it to the console, like the Wii does with its Virtual Console stuff? That's really... wow. I'm at a loss for words, and my interest in owning a 360 or a PS3 has dropped. >(
SuzuriHeinze 1 month ago
Games you buy on gog.com are still yours! I'm sure the terms of service say they're not. They have since the 90s, but the games are DRM free and go right on your hard drive. Too bad the only new title is Witcher 2.
tbirddddd 1 month ago
Microsoft Windows -- keep paying $1000 every few years just to keep your initial purchase useful.
Microsoft XBOX -- keep re-buying the same console once the initial warranty runs out.
The DLC procedure seems to me to be about preventing pirate copying by not giving the buyer the original game in the first place but in its stead -- a drumroll please -- a copy of that game. You know that you are fucked when they sell you a pirate copy for the retail price -- not even Russian mafia does that.
fingrid 1 month ago
But on Stean you can re-download the game on your same account, without paying a a cent.
starwind3438 1 month ago
@starwind3438 thing is Steam can ban your account and subsequently all of those games?
No longer yours
kea919306 1 month ago
@kea919306 Good point.
starwind3438 1 month ago
Stuff that you download through PSN is connected to your account, so if you get a new PS3 you're able to redownload everything. Also, what sort of digital distribution would satisfy your definition of "ownership"?
colbent 1 month ago
ive never had that problem on PSN even when the network got hacked i was able to log back on and re-download everything i had ever purchased.
sonicsnake9 1 month ago
Seriously!? If you purchase an xbox downloadable game you can only use it on one account? That's fucking stupid and greedy I used to own an xbox and I bought downlodable games and my family were able to play the games on different account with no problems now if I decide to buy another xbox the downloadble games I purchase are not available to all accounts? Fuck that.
skills2gunz 1 month ago
It's about damn time somebody exposed this cloud bullshit (and all the other things with it) as a total scam. All too often I see people rushing to the next Steam sale without once realizing they just got themselves a rental.
I bought Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 and immediately after purchasing it I had major regrets. Right at the main screen a message pops up explicitly telling me I do not own a copy of the game. It's amazing how that never once seemed to piss anybody off.
7graywolf7 1 month ago
More people need to watch you. Everyone doing anti-SOPA videos at this point just want attention, when it's something that the government would have to be dumber than Angry Joe to actually try to... Uh, do it.
TheBaehrClan 1 month ago in playlist The Rageaholic VLOG Series
The problem I have is that while there are some physical media released of certain successful XBLA games there really aren't enough. There are a lot of games I would gladly pay double to get them on physical media if that were at all possible. I would like to play these games a few years from now and not have to worry about the service being defunct. Well maybe if all these guys sold at GOG.
TheRealAceofOpus 1 month ago
you know that you are wearing a Nazi/White Pride symbol on your necklace? Hope this isn't a statement about your ideology.
Cynic667 1 month ago
@Cynic667 yes and every swastika is about nazis
he is wearing odins cross as a simple google search would show you
kea919306 1 month ago
@kea919306 Symbols means things. I'm aware that this symbol is rooted in norse mythology, as it's the case with the mjölnir. But the white pride folks annexed this symbols (as the nazis did with the swastika) and therefore it means something else nowadays.
Cynic667 1 month ago
@Cynic667 Look symbols mean different things to people.
What you are suggesting is for example Hindus to change their belief just because of Hitler using it as a symbol to the nazi party
kea919306 1 month ago
@Cynic667 That's a Celtic Cross, a symbol with historic significance that far predates any tenuous white nationalist connotations it has today -- much like the Iron Cross. What's more alarming is that he has books by Pat Buchanan and Michael Savage in his profile.
belolacove 1 month ago in playlist The Rageaholic VLOG Series
Ah so this is the reason why people think within 5 years steam will shut down and take every ones games away. Off to read the Terms Of Service.
R0YALEBEAST 1 month ago in playlist The Rageaholic VLOG Series
@R0YALEBEAST too damn true man
While piracy itself isnt a good thing its quite possible the only way we will ever play our old games is to just download it off a torrent site
kea919306 1 month ago
It doesn't fucking matter anyway, the bourgeois will always run things, never the proletariat.
Octoberfleshed 1 month ago in playlist The Rageaholic VLOG Series
Once again, you have a point.
Have you also noticed that the new Xbox 360 sucks so hard it should double as a vacuum? My original Arcade version runs faster, more smoothly, and more reliably than my brother's new one ever has. And it's his SECOND one. Though mine's recently started having trouble connecting, which I don't see as a coincidence. I also love that you can no longer purchase hard drives made by Microsoft. They're all no-brands from China that don't work.
Good times ahead, friends.
ootdega 1 month ago
steam fanboys are the worse the fact they think its a ok form of drm, which it is not, any service that can remove your games from you for no reason is bull it just seems like a majority of pc gamers are will to bend over and take it.
Chriseycarlyeah324 1 month ago
Once my third Xbox in a row breaks. I am going to sell all of the games i have for it, and replace them with PC copies... simple as that.
BaldSpaceMarine 1 month ago
Maybe its because im a bit of a collector but whenever a game comes out i always try to get a physical copy(pc player) (its also about 10 eu cheaper here than the online price).
Whats always bugged me about this enforcement of steam and other digital distribution is basically the thought that if say valve goes bankrupt and steam just ceases to exist i wont have any way of playing the games i actually purchased and have a physical copy of.
kea919306 1 month ago
@kea919306 That is why I always acquire a "backup copy" of what I purchase. Wink wink nudge nudge. I suggest everyone to do the same.
7graywolf7 1 month ago
mmm, i can take a broken game disk, i'd buy a new game disk. braking down hard-where i can take, i'll fix my console. my acount says i cant download cause its on the max amount of systems, fuck. and it already is a big mess with difference between the
US and European digital releases. holding multiple accounts for diffident reagents and now holding accounts just to repurchase old games you already bought?
ptwob 1 month ago
And there goes the only reason I ever wanted an Xbox 360 to begin with. At least with Steam I can install the games I bought on any PC I own without a hitch. I guess I'm lucky I haven't run into any real DRM so far, or all my damn games would be stuck on a useless 5-year-old laptop.
TechmarineChris 1 month ago
I'm so sick of people thinking that the Government won't pass or enforce SOPA. I'll say it again, they pass the NDAA, they will pass anything. This SOPA bill (or whatever its next name will be) doesn't have anything to do with stoping "Piracy", its only here to cripple the internet. Why take a bill like this so seriously now? Why is the bill worded so broadly? Because the government saw what happened in Egypt and Libya, and they see the internet as a threat against their corrupt system.
BaldSpaceMarine 1 month ago
@BaldSpaceMarine Every single minimal support necessary for SOPA and PIPA to stay above "cadaveric state" is now withdrawn,reducing the propositions to a self-induced blowjob from Internet users by now. Will similar bills appear eventually? Why,of course; but as of now,this false attempt to diminish piracy is more languid than 1up.
And does anybody know if Nintendo's virtual console follows this prerrogative? I've never actually encountered any issues similar to those expressed by razorfist.
RDV333 1 month ago
Your ability to be eloquent and vulgar at the same time gives me happies.
lolbandwidth 1 month ago
Yes Steam can turn into a bitch and fuck us up but so far it's been good. It even works in offline mode (for a month).
But 360 has been like the worst offender. And yet people are still allowing them to ram it in their ass.
Tiosh 1 month ago
Physical purchase is not as full proof as you think on PC. Many retail purchased games (Such as Skyrim, and the upcoming Mass Effect 3) require you to download and launch the game through a 3rd party client. If this becomes a regular occurrence, then yes, physical media will become a thing of the past. At least on PC.
Supergibb 1 month ago
Streets of Rage 2 kicks ass! I still play that fucking game to this day.
Hiatu5 1 month ago
That SOPA comment pissed me the hell off. SOPA is a bad thing, it has a good chance of fucking things up considerably, why does Razorfist have to be contrarian on everything?
TheWoodaba 1 month ago
@TheWoodaba
I never argued that SOPA isn't a bad thing. I agree completely that it sets a negative precedent.
But if you think the government has the fiscal resources at its disposal to enforce the bill, when they lack the resources to do simple things like secure our border with Mexico, you should cut back on the Alex Jones kool-aid.
xRazorFistx 1 month ago 26
@xRazorFistx I'm not entirely sure the government needs to enforce it. This bill, if passed will be used extensively by the greedy-as-fuck entertainment industry to give cease and desist orders to anything they don't like. The simple threat of such a thing will create a signifigantly different web, a much worse one. This is all theoretical, but if you think that the entertainment industry won't jump on this bill at every oppurtunity they can think again. Capcom may get their revenge against you!
TheWoodaba 1 month ago
@TheWoodaba while im sure as hell thats what they want to do but do you really believe they have the actual man power to enforce such a thing?
FFS almost the entire internet is made up of copyrighted content whether you know it or not
Still its not like we should stand idly by.
kea919306 1 month ago
@kea919306 Do you know how many things will simply cease to exist if this bill is passed? Do you know how many people will be out of a job? I think thats the very fucking definition of an ass-fucking? I'm not trying to criticize anyone here, but many high profile people like TotalBiscuit, Spoony, or, hell ANY ONLINE VIDEO REVIEW from websites like the Escapist, RockPaperShotgun, are all in danger from this bill. No, they won't ban everyone on the internet, they will ban plenty.
TheWoodaba 1 month ago
@TheWoodaba i dont think you read my actual response and procedeed to furiously type an angry comment
Of course its a bad thing and no one should sit idly by while they try to pass it.
Im saying that even if it does nothing as bad as you think is going to happen,
The DNS blocking has already been written off of it which was what was threatening these people in the first place and the actual bill has been currently shelved
If the US cant secure its own borders they cant secure the net
kea919306 1 month ago
@kea919306 It wasn't an angry comment, you just came across as someone saying. "Phht, don't be an idiot, they're not going to do that." It is still a very bad, amoral bill. It will still end the careers of many people on the internet. The bill is most certainly not dead, I did a Politics A-Level, this is common practice for congress to shelve bill, wait until the opposition has died down, quietly reintroduce it, and pass it. THIS BILL IS NOT DEAD. Razorfist already made the border joke, btw.
TheWoodaba 1 month ago
@TheWoodaba shouldnt* sit
kea919306 1 month ago
@kea919306 Dunno what that means..... sorry man.
TheWoodaba 1 month ago
@xRazorFistx Just because the government fails to do something in one area doesn't mean it won't overextend itself in another. They're already drafting a SOPA/PIPA successor and claiming it's to fight child pornography, similar to how the PATRIOT Act was mainly used for drug arrests.
belolacove 1 month ago in playlist The Rageaholic VLOG Series
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GUBMENTxCHEESE 1 month ago
@xRazorFistx I don't think securing the Mexican border is as simple as you'd like to think, all of the manpower and physical surveillance to cover that area. Whereas the internet, which really is only vast from a figurative standpoint, can be surveyed by a smaller number of people. And while the government might not have the resources to take everyone to court, it's the fear that their company might get dragged in, AND the US wasting those resources, is what makes it so bad.
Blakobness 1 month ago
@xRazorFistx I think your making a mistake.
Its not government don't have the resources to secure the border with Mexico...its they don't want to.
The why varies...but its clear they don't want to.
As for SOPA...well they do seem to want to do that.
Otherwise...I'm content with the fact I did not, will not, and have no interest in buying an overglorified renting system. Thank you for securing me with that knowledge.
and knowing is half the battle.
StuffedAnimalAdvisor 1 month ago in playlist The Rageaholic VLOG Series
Wii shop games can be played offline...
SexyPotatoDancer 1 month ago
Strange that never happened to me.
111111shredder 1 month ago
Sorry but I some agree and disagree with this rant. On Xbox live customer service when my 360 got the RROD back in 2009. There restore my purchases. Then when just right after the new update I got a slim 360 and I was able to do a account transfer and re downloaded them without customer service. Theirs menu options on the website and on the console go to download activity (history).
captainrag 1 month ago
...and this is why Im buying all online games only through steam.
you know valve wouldn't put this shit on you.
RiptorSLO 1 month ago
I really hate this generation of gaming. It's really starting to piss me off.
vSquirtle 1 month ago
In the case of Steam, they've a system in place where if the system ever shuts down, they will destroy the authentication servers and all games will be "detached" from the service, handing the license over to the purchasers. Unfortunately Steamworks games only work online for the most part; sad, because just "boxed" games sold on Steam run fine offline. (usually third-party titles) Companies just need to learn to exercise trust in their customers, and transparency, as far as I'm concerned.
andyofcomixinc 1 month ago
There is no one absolute format. Those who think otherwise are living in a fucking pipe dream.
ItsTheFizz 1 month ago in playlist The Rageaholic VLOG Series
And that's why i buy CD's
fuzzmanx 1 month ago
Good Old Games. Buy the games, burn them to a disc and then keep care of that disc.
Only digital distribution service in which the games are yours.
Stehmdawg 1 month ago
Yeah, same thing for music in my books. I'd rather listen to vinyl than listen an ipod.
nljuggalo 1 month ago
*nods* Extra disconcerning considering many of my favorite games this generations are XBLA games. I don't even want to THINK about what will happen when the next console generation rolls around and MS takes the 360 portion of XBox Live offline, possibly rendering EVERYTHING I bought unplayable.
GELTONZ 1 month ago 4
@GELTONZ
That's another thing I've always wondered about.
We know they took the online functionality of original Xbox games down a year and a half ago or so. At which point does it eclipse into the world of false advertising?
Because if I buy these games, it says - plain as day - 'XBox Live Compatible' on the front. They are essentially removing part of the product they've sold me, after the fact.
xRazorFistx 1 month ago 4
@xRazorFistx soe ps2 game servers are still up.
jamvaldez226 1 month ago
@jamvaldez226 some
jamvaldez226 1 month ago
RazorFist are you wearing a cross hair pendent for JFK?
anyway you it the nail on the head. The real scary part is they start with something that effects a smaller gourp of people, then build to the next level. the death of print is next. if the take are entertainment, the thing we need are soon to be in danger. we have to fight.
InspectorKen88 1 month ago in playlist The Rageaholic VLOG Series
(if i may)
FUCK DIGITAL DISTRIBUTION
bretthicksomega 1 month ago
@xRazorfistx i like to pay for things i can touch...like whores
GibbyVee 1 month ago
Thanks for saying that.
artboy598 1 month ago
I find "The Cloud" to be a fitting name...that shit can dissipate at any moment like vapor and all your files are gone. It was in the TOS, though...buried between mind-numbingly boring and vague legalese. I don't think enough people can stop the momentum...within 2 generations, a console won't even have physical media.
wetworx78 1 month ago 5
You're the King Diamond of the fucking video game media. God fucking speed sir.
rangeskillious 1 month ago
Never thought of it that way... hehe, even my physical copies of games are basically "force-added" to Steam nowadays, like Skyrim. Woohoo, capitalism! 8D
Lolzygag 1 month ago
@Lolzygag
It's bullshit. If Valve were to go out of business, or the FBI was to arrest Gabe Newell, and then Steam is suddenly shut down, I might as well shove my Skyrim DVD into the microwave, and then play Morrowind - which I actually own.
sankunsama 1 month ago in playlist The Rageaholic VLOG Series
And this is why I stick to emulators and mooch off friends who have consoles when I have a hankering for Assassin's Creed. Atleast with computers you can learn to modify them outside a cooporation's restrictions, sometimes illegally.
Gjkl345 1 month ago in playlist The Rageaholic VLOG Series
While you have a head and use it more than 90 percent of all of America, I don't think you have ever heard of Gamersgate, GOG, or the Indie Bundle. For those services, you actually own the game and can play them whenever you want. And if not those their is the shady way (pirating and emulators). Their is always a way friend.
unconsidered1 1 month ago
you know i subscribe to you because you don't seem to have your head up your ass....but you just spent 4 and a half minutes plus time it took you to upload a video when a 30 second google search would have helped you.....
"support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-live/marketplace-and-purchasing/download-content"
see if this doesn't fix your problem and let me know
ranman1117 1 month ago
@ranman1117
Actually, the Xbox Support guy already went through all that. We transferred the 'rights'. But Sega's DLC rights operate independently of XBL.
Ergo, the games are still not playable.
Good effort, though.
xRazorFistx 1 month ago 6
@xRazorFistx that sucks have you tried barking up sega customer service?....squeaky wheel...good luck!
ranman1117 1 month ago
I own a sega mega drive which is over 20 years old and I can still play games on it to this day.
I know todays and the next will not do this and as a consumer who believes in long lasting quality products, I know I'm not purchasing the next consoles at all because of this.
seirahime 1 month ago in playlist The Rageaholic VLOG Series
So far I find razorfist half-right on digital media.I have 2 accounts on xbl on my 360 and have purchased games from games on demand on one account and played them on the other.However,I find it retarded that saves can only exist on one singular account.This means if I get far in a game say Deus Ex on 1 account,I can't continue it in the other.
Silenthunter287 1 month ago in playlist The Rageaholic VLOG Series
happy 60th video
chuggaaconroyfanboy1 1 month ago
Thank you for articulating what I couldn't. Downloading games is fucking ridiculous, if I buy a game I should be allowed to fucking play it whenever I want.
lagging199527 1 month ago
All these fools who trust steam and the like with their testicles are going to feel a sharp sting soon enough.
UtushoReiuji 1 month ago
Get a new mic to stop the static sound in the background and the overall low quality, it would really help out in the quality in all your videos.
NiceHatVeton 1 month ago in playlist The Rageaholic VLOG Series
It's all downhill from here, man. First CDs, then hard drives for software upgrades and downloadable content/games. Don't forget your amazing built-in hard drive can crash, leaving you completely fucked.
Here's a fun question: Assuming the gaming industry continues to take consumers for granted like the rest of the entertainment industry has been, do you think a second crash is possible?
NecrophageonIII 1 month ago
@NecrophageonIII Games are far too much a part of our culture at this point to just disappear. Asking if there will be a video game crash any time soon is almost like asking if there will be a movie crash, or a music crash, or a TV show crash.
321cheeseman 1 month ago in playlist The Rageaholic VLOG Series
@321cheeseman Probably. Heck, more than probably.... People just consume for the sake of consumption. Still, something's gotta give. You can only stretch things so far before someone either does something amazing, or people tire of it.
NecrophageonIII 1 month ago
@NecrophageonIII The major franchises are enough to prevent a video game crash. When the original crash happened, the market was constantly divided by the emerging clones of the last year's hit games with very little gameplay merit. Right now they are all about the big hard-hitters like the FPS franchises, which will keep the market shares from equally dividing between the mediocre clones and the hard-hitters.
In short, the profits are high and thus a crash is unlikely.
fingrid 1 month ago
@fingrid I suppose the question was clumsily worded. I don't think a full-blown crash where everyone abandons gaming is even possible.
...but you can only milk franchises and copy ideas for so long before people start losing interest completely. Part of the original crash was confusion amongst consumers from having too many options. Now I see a problem where the options are too few - though maybe I'm not looking hard enough. :P
Maybe a video game "recession" would be a more apt term.
NecrophageonIII 1 month ago
@NecrophageonIII I strongly disagree. I have expected the death of the FPS genre for a long time, thinking it is like a strawberry pie and people are bound to get fed up with it very quickly. In its stead the genre is more like porn: the audience will get bored of exploring one product demonstration of its looks and functions, but once a new product is presented, people happily continue the cycle with the barely-distinct, new product.
You need multiple women for a long movie.
fingrid 1 month ago
@fingrid HA! I really like that analogy! Perhaps you're right, though.
Frankly, I was tired of the FPS genre by the time Quake 3 came out... but I guess even I have too much faith in people sometimes.
Oh well. As long as there are people who feel the same way, I suppose I can't complain too much.
NecrophageonIII 1 month ago
Nail on the head. That is all.
JackGordon86 1 month ago 5
Have you ever tried gog.com?
amigagames 1 month ago 2
@amigagames I'm curious about this too. How do you feel about gog.com, Razorfist?
321cheeseman 1 month ago in playlist The Rageaholic VLOG Series
Gotta agree with you there Razorfist (I usually do) about downloadable games. Only if I really desire the game and it's exclusive to download only (Steam is cool with me for TF2, Portal, & HL series and Blizzard with WoW) will I buy it. I just prefer to have a physical copy to make sure I'm in control of the merchandise I paid for, because anything could wrong with an online copy. *Dons tinfoil hat*
NarfLarf 1 month ago in playlist The Rageaholic VLOG Series
Steam is so badly programmed, I mean honestly I've seen it use up to 2GB of memory while it DOWNLOADED Oblivion and considering not everyone in the known universe has fiber-optic that's two gigs of RAM I won't soon get back until its finished, making some games entirely unplayable while I wait because they themselves also need a tanker of free memory. Oh, and Steam has been around since 2003 so its absolutely insane its still so bugged.
SirJolithan 1 month ago
I absolutely hate any game that cannot be played offline.
Abster876 1 month ago 4
i prefer physical copies of games over digital downloads any day. it's nice to see a shelf full of games.
alondite345 1 month ago 2
Wait...did you just called progressivism a failed idea?
chocolatesprite 1 month ago
@chocolatesprite
I didn't call it a failed idea. I said the term 'progressive' is apocryphal. Because the ideas are old.
xRazorFistx 1 month ago 2
josh is right, there's a fully functional offline mode
ResidentEvilSpore 1 month ago
Couldn't have said it better myself. Seriously...if I tried I'd be stuttering my words all the time. All kidding aside...since this is the direction gaming seems to be going I don't think it'll be too long before I just bow out completely. It's come to the pint where we're paying $60+ for beta games to be fixed through patches ( mostly unsuccessfully I might ad) later.
SaintIlluminated 1 month ago in playlist The Rageaholic VLOG Series
You don't make as many videos or as often as you should :( speaking of that is there any possibility of getting an Assassin's Creed Revelations review? I know its a series that has fallen out of favour with you but I presume that would only make the review more interesting :p
kakamana1000 1 month ago