@NEStalgia Not quite: mine is just a grudge, his is a mental condition, no sane grown man I know has such a strong, exclusive taste for only girly or kiddie things. And people like that who are sometimes mentioned in the news mostly end up in prison under a certain category...
I have thought the same way, the fact that he apparently works in a school with kids is quite frightening as well js..
And I'm pretty much where you are. There are a few xbox games I want to play but doesn't make sense to have a console for 2 or 3 games sitting there gathering dust.
@ThanosReXXX I figure he's alright, and I kind of admire his absolute conviction to his principles in the face of all the peer pressure the rest of us give him. Slightly odd or no, if everyone stood on their convictions so defiantly instead of washy pandering and go-along-to-get-along which has lead to every great calamity in history, the world would be a better place. He's just a little too keen on reminding everyone his tastes non stop, unprompted. So....do you ever plan to get a Sony console?
Oh my comment to you was in response to what you said about disliking the PSX's graphics rendering compared to N64. Like how I didn't like PS3's graphics rendering compared to X360.
@redd214@NEStalgia Well, just in case neither of you know, and to be fair to him, his mental condition falls under the autism spectrum: he has a milder form of Asperger's, which can definitely account for his fierce defense of his opinion and the strong way he voices it against anything that he deems to be wrong.
But my wonder, besides his taste, is how someone within the spectrum can be a teacher, especially considering his strong opinions. How would that influence young children? He definitely wouldn't be my first choice for a teacher. But in any case, now you know what's up with him, and although it doesn't make his incessant hate comments towards adult games any less annoying, you at least have some more perspective on where it's probably coming from.
Anyways, getting too far off topic, so back to the Xboxen...
@redd214 Yeah, wanted to add that we are actually not that far apart sentiment-wise when it comes to reasons for buying/not buying a console, but I still can't get over how you sold your Xbox One that your (in my eyes) amazing wife bought you. I sure never received any gift that big from any better half I've ever had...
Nah, just kidding. I'm over it. Still: if that was me, I'd kept it, since your wife saved you the trouble of having to contemplate buying it or not, so there wasn't any loss involved on your part in keeping it. And E3 is only a few weeks away, so I hope for your sake, that it isn't going to show a lot of interesting stuff coming to the Xbox One, otherwise you may come to seriously regret having traded it in...
@NEStalgia But did I say that you were wrong about PS3 graphics being worse than the Xbox 360's? That almost makes it sound as if I was defending Sony, and I know for a fact that is something that I would never do. In fact: considering your exact statement here concerning that difference, I completely agree with you, so I'm still a bit at a loss here...
And that picture: Don Mattrick - didn't last nearly long enough to even come close to a hat trick...
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
@ThanosReXXX I plan on getting a pc as I mentioned before, so anything revealed at e3 that would be exclusive to the Xbox would more than likely come to pc so I highly doubt there would be any regret on my part. After almost 5 years on the market there are only a handful of games on the Xbox that I'm interested in and can't get elsewhere so it would literally be gathering dust most of the time. I'm not a collector and don't like having things around that I don't have a use for. Not just with games/consoles but with just about everything else as well (besides books). And to clarify, it wasnt a trade in it was a straight return so what was spent on that is going to said pc so not a really a big deal. In addition instead of just sitting in my entertainment center only getting turned on a few times a year, perhaps it can go to someone who will use it much more than I would have, seems like a better deal imo. Lastly, yes my wife is awesome!
@DarthNocturnal I never get the "gold mine" of trading consoles. They give you pennies on the dollar and then sell the darned thing for close to MSRP....
@ThanosReXXX Yeah, I do recall hearing about that, though I heard it second or third hand, much as I believe you did. True or not (and certainly believable) I'd rather not make assumptions about random people on the internet based on second or third hand knowledge, so I'll trust only the direct conversations I've had with a....persistent, but otherwise pleasant person.
As for schools....heck, someone like you describe would be a dream for deal with kids compared to the faces of evil in my school as a kid! At least A-M would seem like a big kid to the kids. My teachers were either all militant social revolutionaries, angry LGBT's with chips on their shoulders using the classes for political games with the management, or people who simply just hated children through and through, and made sure the children were aware of it. (Most of them, unsurprisingly, stopped being teachers within that decade.) Little shop of horrors. A-M would have been a dream teacher
"And that picture: Don Mattrick - didn't last nearly long enough to even come close to a hat trick... "
#dealwithit
BTW, I was looking up some of those CD keys places you pointed out....I did get my memberships from cdkeys but some of them seem kind of iffy. They're reseller marketplaces not direct stores, many of them including CD keys may ask you for a copy of your ID, etc, etc. Not stuff I'd do with anonymous stores located in Hong Kong and Dubai The sourcing of the keys is therefore sketchy, sometimes coming from simply being purchased in cheaper regions, sometimes bought with stolen CCs, sometimes just stolen codes, etc. Bigger ones like cdkeys are likely buying cheap region imports. Others like G2A that are marketplaces...who knows where people get them. Some are Humble bundle scalpers etc. So just as a PSA....ethical issues aside, sometimes broken keys happen sometimes from those sites...sometimes publishers kill the keys.
@NEStalgia I actually read the topic in which he himself explained it, but forgot about it for some reason, and was then later redirected to it once again, so I got the info from the horse's mouth, so to speak.
Concerning him being a "dream teacher": I'd say anything but, although law and life is more strict over there where he lives, so his extreme convictions probably fit in quite nicely. It's not so much his own preference for kiddy and girly games that worries me, but his close-mindedness in general to other stuff and other games/game genres, that might actually be really good or entertaining.
Just imagine one of the kids in his class bringing a DS/3DS with him with a game that falls outside of his own allowed types of games: I can already imagine him raining fire down upon that kid, giving him a sermon about the evils of non-cutesy games and how it will ruin that kid's childhood...
Thanks, but no thanks. That actually sounds like the kind of teacher who's head I'd put in a toilet bowl to flush all the silly ideas out of him...
As for those digital keys: I've been buying and using them for years, ever since I stopped buying my subscription in a store (that was actually only in the first year, and after that, I always scoured the web for cheaper options). I never had to give any ID card or credit card details or whatsoever on any of those sites either.
That would also have been an insurmountable hurdle for me, seeing as I don't even have a credit card, so I just use PayPal, which is linked to my bank account. That's also what I use on my two Xbox consoles if I buy DLC or other stuff.
And lastly, and most important: I would never, and I do mean NEVER send people links to or redirect them to a sketchy website or reseller, much less to one that I haven't tested myself, and tested with success, so I don't agree with any of the concern at ALL. And I would be hard pressed to believe that I've been extremely lucky all these years, ever since the Xbox 360...
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
Now redirects to general feedback stuff.
I hope that doesn't mean they're stopping adding new backwards compatible stuff. While they've already done most of the essentials, I'm still waiting for FF13-2 and Tales of Vesperia thank you very much.
@Octane Well, I'm definitely not part of the "we" who've already known about it for a while, and I only received this email today, so it's truly the first time I've heard of it, and as such, I thought it a nice gesture on my part to share this news with my fellow Xbox owners. Silly me...
In case you're still wondering; here's the article from March 14: ''The Microsoft Theater will be home to official E3 events like the Xbox E3 2018 Briefing on June 10, 2018 at 1PM PT.''
I'm a little disappointed at the XBox store digital sales. When they have something good they're cheaper than PSN. But PSN ALWAYS has pages and pages of good games and decent to good prices, weekly. XBox has a full page of Farm Simulator DLC, plus a few decent games, mostly from EA. Meanwhile PSN has Witcher III for $20, and a ton of other stuff. grumble
@ThanosReXXX Honestly I'm not sure I'd disagree with him much extolling the virtues of wholesome entertainment for kids. I may be easy going overall but I think the "kids are just little adults" mentality of the modern age isn't so good either Granted, I haven't the foggiest clue what to do with kids in general....but part of it is because they're little paramilitary specialists in training in 2018. I grew up with Mario and PacMan darnit!
Digital keys stores: Yeah, used it for the Gold sub, and actually grabbed a few other things. Cdkeys seems ok (though even they, if they flag you, get to that whole ID scan thing...shudder) Some of the others are just marketplaces though, not selling their own keys but sort of an ebay of digital keys. So....buyer beware. (All are pretty sketchy on how they source things....but at least cdkeys is buying in volume somewhere. The ebay-ish sellers of some of those others are just random dudes who "acquired" keys...some of which from boxed cards/versions..... And at one point, Ubi did shut down all keys associated with the two of them G2A and Kinguin, not sure if they were in your list) as they were bought with stolen CCs (from EA Origin, no less... )
Paypal users were the ones reporting the ID issues. And they had prior purchased as well. It looks like if you somehow get "flagged" by however, you end up needing to verify. Amazon "flagged" me somehow the other week, so even the most legit legit stores can flag people for no reason. Who knows how.
The sites themselves are mostly not sketchy. But for some of them, how they acquire keys is sketchy. Not always illegal, but not always not in volation of EULA. Some are obvious, like I bought Halo Wars 2 Ultimate.....well it's a dated pre-launch version, one of the perks was early access, so that's how they got the codes, retail doesn't want those outdated printed digital code cards anymore with a printed date on them. Others....especially pre-orders are sketchy. I love cdkeys though. Half their stuff is 40% OVER MSRP, with a few things well below and some slighty below. So you know they're doing something kinda currency-conversion related.....that seems fair. Business can buy labor in some impoverished cesspool for $1 an hour and no benefits, but consumers cant utilize the "global economy" to buy said products for the world's lowest going rate? And it's enforced? Nuh uh. That's not a free market, that's a planned economy at best, a slave economy at worst.
@Octane No, not wondering about the announcement itself, but after having searched through all my Xbox-related emails, I most certainly AM wondering why this is the first time they're sending actual Xbox members an email about it.
And there's also nothing in this email other than what I quoted, that could possibly indicate that it is perhaps a reminder mail instead of a first announcement, so that annoys me to no end, because now I look kinda dumb for bringing "old" news, instead of me having done something nice for my fellow human beings, which kinda is my thing, normally speaking...
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
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