Passes can kiss my arse

I love how people can just stand by and say that online passes are ok, and we should bend over and take it. To the people who think we should, I hope your day comes when you have to deal with the same crap we do. Online passes are going to hurt us, plain and simple


The first way they are going to really start hitting us below the belt us the people who decide to rent games. Let's say you decide your going to only rent your games from now on to save some money. You get a game your friend has been talking about and decide to play some multi with them, you got issues now, you have to pay to play even more. On top of that you don't own the game. So now you just paid to use a game that you don't own. Now you've just spent your hard earned money for what?????


Now here is something you don't hear about with passes, Nintendo. I'm serious, when was the last time you heard someone saying you have to have a pass to play a Nintendo game? I have yet to hear anyone complain about this. In fact Xbox, Pc, and Playstation are the only ones I've hard this about, if others have let me know. Raises some questions doesn't it? Why would one company and one company only not have these? The only reason I could think of is people often see Nintendo as a family company and you don't see alot of M games.


Even if you say I don't like online passes and I won't use them, then don't support them. Don't buy the game new, your only letting them have an advantage. If you don't need/want the pass buy used. Also don't tell me that dlc is outside content, because I've seen dlc that let's you unlock content in game. Even more so this comes out at the same time the game does.

New games really are going to kill the industry with all of the passes. At some point people may have enough and sales could come crashing down. Will it happen? That is really hard to say, but I can tell you one thing, if these companies continue they could be in trouble and other companies that don't charge could start seeing alot more revenue coming their way.

If people become sheep and willingly pay money for passes then they only have themselves to blame. Wether it's an elite pass or just a pass to get online content, it's still wrong. People should not be forced to spend hard earned dollars to play a game bought used Games cost to much as it is right now and that may never change. . The gaming community needs more people to stand up and let our voices be heard.

It's twofer thursday

It's two for one Thursday for blogs here. Wahoooooo, gonna get some writting done, uh huh uh huh. Okay now that's over with, I'm back to add another blog. Thank you internet for not allowing me to upload the videos I want to.
Ok, so I wanted to kind of touch on something here that I am really hoping to see a video at some point from two of my top youtube gamers, Muzz and Splatter Trigger, and that is pirated games. I have read so many stories about games not only on sites like Ebay but Amazon as well it's scary. To top it off I myself got sold a pirated game and found out it wasn't the first time the seller did this.
Pirated games are going to hurt the used industry because once bought, it's hard to make sure your going to get your money back, let alone the same game. What happened to me was I didn't read the comments for the seller on Amazon and found alot of what was being sold was games with issues or the game I bought was sold as pirated as well. Here is the worst part it was being sold as brand new as well.
I had to find out when I called Nintendo and the seller wanted the game back with no promise of when I would get my money back. Amazon did refund it to me without having to send back. It makes me glad I didn't try Ebay first.
If someone is willing to sell a game as pirated to make a profit, that person has some moral issues. Yes we all need money, but to rip people off is wrong. Wait, kind of like online passes.

Why Batman? Whyyyyyyyy???

Since uploading videos takes forever I wanted to do a blog in response to Muzz from L1 Games video about Batman Arkahm City and the response that it got. You can find the video here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAd8ElGvobg&feature=feedu.
As someone who buys games more used then new, I find the practice of online passes to be in poor taste. People generaly buy games used because they can't afford the game or just don't want to pay full retail price because they think it's to steep. I have to agree that 60 bucks for a game is more then I'm willing to spend and then have to have an online pass to play as a charcter in the game.
There are people who say it's worth having the online pass and buy the game regardless. To those people I say, that is your choice but good luck getting rid of the game. Who wants to buy a game where you have to pay more money after buying to use certian functions.
In this case you get to play as Catwoman,but you need an online connection. In the case of Gamestop you can get a bonus map if you pre-order. Why should I have to go to a certian store to get a map or even have an online connection to play as a charcter? In the words of Penn and Teller it's "Bull shit".
I have crapy internet at times so contecting to the net isn't always fun. Look, just give me a game where I don't need dlc, a connection, or one set place to buy from. Give me my frickin game complete for a change. It's bad enough where if I want content for some of my psp games I can download the dlc for free, but can't get it on the game? What the hell?????
Now the video got a response from a guy on youtube named SamuelTehGTA(my copy and paste did that). Who calls Muzz a liar for not mentioning how people can use their profile on someone esle's xbox to use the bonus content. No one is perfect, and that's not something alot of people know about or think of.
The message Muzz gives is that that we shouldn't have to have a pass to play content that is already there. The guy throughout the entire comments doesn't get it. Calling someone a liar and a fear monger is nothing more then a childish act when someone forgets something. Big whoop, it happens. I'm sure Samuel the so called freelance journalist hasn't screwed up, oh wait he can't even spell gamer or journalist on his youtube profile. The guy forgets that if he is playing on a friends console he can't play on his, and he thinks he is smart?
If I didn't believe or share the same ideas as Muzz I wouldn't be watching his videos or writing this. I do agree with him and I think he speaks for people that won't speak for themselves. The gaming community needs to make the companies realize that these practices are wrong and until people take more action it will hapen more and more.
I'm not trying to tell anyone on how to think or feel. But people need to think about their actions and how this is going to hurt other people. We have to ask how much longer until they start charging more and more on these passes. How much longer until the used game market is killed and people have to buy new. If that happens, the games industry could crash. I've seen people take in stacks of games just to get one or two new titles. If people can't do this, then new games can't be bought. How much longer until GameFly goes under? Just think about it.
Feel free to comment.

Bargin bin

I love bargin prices on video games. Yeah I'm cheap and I don't care. Awhile back my girlfriends son and I were discussing pricing in the bin. He said any game that is in there is priced so low because it sucked and didn't sell. But later on he found a game he wanted that I had in the bargin bin. I looked at him and said "Doesn't suck does it?". He didn't like that I brought this up, but it's a point I like to make.

catching up

due to illness and other family issues my blog suffered so I'm trying hard to get stuff up here as fast as possible. Maybe 2 a day or every other day for right now.

Bring us Miles Edgeworth

Capcom stated they would not be brining the second Miles Edgeworth to the US awhile back. Something has been bothering me about this since they made the statement. It was stated it may be brought to a different platfrom and nothing is certian. Does this mean they wanted to see how the 3ds market would work and give us a 3d Miles? I hope not, I really can't stand 3d to begin with plus the cost of a 3ds is not worth it. I really don't think any of the Ace Attorney games have gotten the coverage they need here in North America. The truth is I didn't even know about the Pheonix games until I saw one in Best Buy. Since then I have loved the games and want more.

oh subtitles why do you fail me

Ok so I'm going to mention a little pet peeve of mine, the lack of subtitles in key parts of games. Recently I started playing JL Heros for the psp. One of the things that really bugs me is the lack of subtitles for the cut scenes. Why does this bother me? Because my head phone jack doesn't fit right in my psp and I can't use ear buds. Other games have this same issues as well such as the first Persona. Now God of War does a decent job with subtitles as well, but sometimes there is a word or two that doesn't get put in. The other problem is having to dig for the subtitle menu or even worse downloading a movie from the psn only to find out it doesn't include subtitles. I'm just glad Netflix started to add this in for the streaming.