Let's not call people thick-headed, lordblazer.
Let's not call people thick-headed, lordblazer.
1) They do this with DVDs too ya know. It's called "wanting to make money on products you created and/or published". Not that I'd want to play the Japanese version of FFXI anyway, seeing as I don't speak Japanese. I'd have no idea what to do.Originally Posted by lordblazer
2) You pay so much MORE money for a computer. I've spent less than $300 on my PS2, and I've even bought a second controller, the hard drive, keyboard and online adapter for it. My new computer cost me $1500.
3) Ummm, you take care of it and it WON'T break down. I don't know what you do with YOUR game consoles, but I've had all of two consoles break on me, and one was due to a flood. The other was probably just seriously abused by me when I was a young'n. And no, you can't upgrade them. So what? The average PC has a lifespan of about 7 years, which is pretty much the amount of time that games will be produced for a console. If your computer is even 4 years old, chances are you don't have a powerful enough machine to run FFXI. You COULD upgrade, but for what you'd pay for new hardware (which would probably only boost PARTS of your performance) you could probably buy a PS2. Besides that, PC gamers are WAYYYYY too eager to upgrade their computers. Every "gamer" PC that comes out these days is 64 bit, which is COMPLETELY ridiculous since there isn't even any software that takes advantage of this yet, and they run at slower speeds than their 32 bit counterparts. In addition, running a 32 bit app on a 64 bit system forces the CPU to take that much longer to read the code since it has to figure out that it's only getting half as much information as it thinks it needs to. Sounds like the PC gamers are the ones getting ripped off here...
4) Yeah, that's because you're not SUPPOSED to take apart your game console. If they covered the system under the warranty after you'd opened it up, they'd be liable for any damages you incurred, which is what we like to call "a bad business decision". Sony would have to repair every system that had been fried from someone's botched efforts at installing a mod chip, and they'd have to do it FOR FREE.
5) Re-itteration of theme, while a classic closure, does not lend creedence to an argument.
Reading your posts if I had to say someone here was thick headed...
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