Fucking Kotaku

[RockyRan]

I can understand the reasons why. If one console consistently beat the other it would be a PR disaster. MS stands to lose more if the experience is the same. If they can play against someone without a LIVE subscription and have the same experience then it becomes much harder for MS to justify that ~£40 per year.

 

Yeah, I mean MS is already struggling horribly to justify the cost as it is I love how every E3 they go up on stage and rave about support from yet another website, touting it as "SO MUCH VALUE ADDED TO LIVE". This year it was YouTube. And I saw this announcement on Youtube. I suppose MS is targeting the "dumbass who doesn't realize he has working computer" demographic with the way they act every E3 as if they had invented these websites solely for Live on the 360.

 

 

Jesus fucking christ. Why are you people so harsh towards Kotaku?

 

Uh,

 

Replying to Fucking Kotaku: Wherein we bitch about Kotaku

Edited June 21, 2011 by RockyRan

[Faiblesse Des Sens]

My point was that you're taking it more than a little bit overboard.

[Thursday Next]

Got another one of their retarded emailed articles today: "I've seen an Xbox and a PS3 playing together you won't."

 

Seriously? Was he that surprised that the games play together? Does he even know how servers and clients work? Every Battlefield title has a few lines of code that tells it whether to report to PS3, PC or Xbox servers. That's the only thing that fragments a community, we could turn it off tomorrow if the first parties let us.

 

It's even been done in the past, Shadowrun had cross platform play between PC and Xbox and Portal 2 has cross platform play between PS3 and PC. Now anyone with half a brain could work out that if the PS3 can work with the PC and the Xbox can work with the PC then guess what! The PS3 can work with the Xbox.

 

The only reason that it's not done is because either Sony, MS or both don't allow it.

 

I can understand the reasons why. If one console consistently beat the other it would be a PR disaster. MS stands to lose more if the experience is the same. If they can play against someone without a LIVE subscription and have the same experience then it becomes much harder for MS to justify that ~£40 per year.

 

Jesus fucking christ. Why are you people so harsh towards Kotaku? The article came from the angle that "he's never seen it though it is possible." It was more so wondering that why after all of these years this is the first time it's been shown in a development version. Also, why do you write multiple paragraphs every single post?

 

Ummm... I write paragraphs for posts because my thoughts can't be summed up by posting "^^^THIS!^^^". Paragraphs are a useful tool for separating out one point from another so that if someone takes issue with any one thing I said they are easily able to reference it, without it necessarily negating the entire post. It's probably a lawyer thing. I like all my points to be severable, rather than having an entire argument fall down because one paragraph was based on a misconception.

 

The reason this article annoyed me was firstly, that having been invited to take a look at a game the editor just rambled on about a feature that is just a result of the game being in development. It's an insult to the developer and implies that the game was so unimpressive that the editor would rather talk about the décor in the booth than the game itself.

 

Secondly, talking about how "amazing" this connection is is as pointless as it is retarded. It'd be like going to see BF3 being developed and writing an article about how with Clipping turned off you could walk through walls and acting like it would be amazing if this was a feature in the game. As I explained above. Anyone with even a flimsy grasp of online gaming and logic would understand that dedicated servers are run on PC's not Xboxes or PS3s. So if Xbox can connect to a PC based server, and PS3 can connect to a PC based server that an artificial separation is in effect.

 

Had the article been a fleshed out discussion of why the two are not allowed to interact, highlighting the cross platform titles like Shadow Run, Portal 2 and (allegedly) FFXI and the potential impact of the two environments meshing together (how would friend lists work etc.) and looking to the future with comments from EA honchos like Gibeau and Riccitiello about making games a cross platform service with Origin rather than selling a disc in a box then it would have been an interesting piece. As it stands it was the usual lazy slapdash reporting that we always see on Kotaku.

 

Finally, as RockyRan points out. Herein I bitch about Kotaku.

[Faiblesse Des Sens]

for the 18th million time...

 

tl;dr

[McBeeferton]

This thread is always entertaining, guys.

[Cyber Rat]

Unlike Kotaku.

[RockyRan]

for the 18th million time...

 

tl;dr

 

You ask for a reason why he's bitching about the article. He gives you one. And you willingly refuse to read it because...it's too long? In a forum where you do nothing but read text?

 

I'm getting flashbacks from my GameFAQs message board days...

Edited June 22, 2011 by RockyRan

[Thursday Next]

for the 18th million time...

 

tl;dr

 

Especially for you here's the haiku version. It's 17 entire syllables long so hopefully you brought a cup of coffee to help you through, oh and excuse the line break here, I know it technically makes this two paragraphs.

 

"This" is not a post.

Kotaku's report was poor.

It needed more depth.

[excel_excel]

A person says they want cross game chat on PS3.

 

KingKellogg the Waffle Haggler responds with this gem. @aw3str1k3r: i hate cross game chat

 

That's right. He hates a feature that if it came to his favourite console, he wouldn't have to use, a feature that has no negatives. My brain hurts.

[Thursday Next]

I think people sometimes confuse apathy with hatred. Any time anyone "hates" an entirely optional feature, be it Portal 2 hats or cross game chat, I wonder if they are really that offended or if they just don't know how to express that they are neither for nor against it.

[excel_excel]

Well HOW CAN ONE HATE IT THOUGH! He should have said 'I don't care'. fucking fanboy.

 

Annnnyway http://kotaku.com/5814367/what-are-americans-fetishizing-this-week-penises

 

penises.

[Strangelove]

Why do people act like theyve never looked down at their dick before(Maybe theyre too fat, theyre gamers after all....) or even fucking sucked a cock in their lives?

Jesus, dicks scare people so easily.

[Faiblesse Des Sens]

Why do people act like theyve never looked down at their dick before(Maybe theyre too fat, theyre gamers after all....) or even fucking sucked a cock in their lives?

Jesus, dicks scare people so easily.

 

Take out the comma and that last sentence is even more interesting.

[Strangelove]

[excel_excel]

Why do people act like theyve never looked down at their dick before(Maybe theyre too fat, theyre gamers after all....) or even fucking sucked a cock in their lives?

Jesus, dicks scare people so easily.

 

 

Wait are you saying that people act like they've never sucked a dick in their life? I act like that cause I haven't!....hmm I wonder why you say that

[Strangelove]

I said "or".

[excel_excel]

DON'T LIE TO ME STRANGELOVE!

[RockyRan]

Strangelove, should I make a "secret confessions" thread?

[Faiblesse Des Sens]

Never sucked a dick?

 

You don't know SHIT about video games

[deanb]

You know a fair bit of this got lost.

 

Anyway guess who just change the UK/CA links to their sites? The places that currently accounted for 10-15% of their traffic...

[Hocking]

I was wondering why my cereal tasted like piss this morning.

[P4: Gritty Reboot]

Man, they're so delusional (at least Denton is). They seriously believe the new site design is the best thing ever.

[P4: Gritty Reboot]

Kotaku, keepin the pageviews coming, already has three separate posts up about the Supreme Court decision. Reminds me of when Gizmodo covers the Apple events (not that they're allowed anymore) and there are some two dozen posts up, one for each minuscule announcement made.

[TheRevanchist]

Kotaku, keepin the pageviews coming, already has three separate posts up about the Supreme Court decision. Reminds me of when Gizmodo covers the Apple events (not that they're allowed anymore) and there are some two dozen posts up, one for each minuscule announcement made.

I can't blame them for going after pageviews. It's how they make their money. My chief complaint in the focus of the gaming industry (Bash) and the way they have handled the redesign. In the industry I work in, if a customer complains, it goes through layers of people and is discussed in quality events we hold every year. Improvements are always expected in quality.

 

Then, today, Kotaku has been one screwed up site. The ca and uk.kotaku sites have both been, apparently, decommissioned, as they are redirecting to the "new and improved" site.

 

I shake my tiny fist at you, Gawker!

[Mr. GOH!]

Kotaku, keepin the pageviews coming, already has three separate posts up about the Supreme Court decision. Reminds me of when Gizmodo covers the Apple events (not that they're allowed anymore) and there are some two dozen posts up, one for each minuscule announcement made.

I can't blame them for going after pageviews. It's how they make their money. My chief complaint in the focus of the gaming industry (Bash) and the way they have handled the redesign. In the industry I work in, if a customer complains, it goes through layers of people and is discussed in quality events we hold every year. Improvements are always expected in quality.

 

Then, today, Kotaku has been one screwed up site. The ca and uk.kotaku sites have both been, apparently, decommissioned, as they are redirecting to the "new and improved" site.

 

I shake my tiny fist at you, Gawker!

 

You make a classic mistake here, TheRevanchist: commenters and visitors are not Gawker's customers. The folks they sell ad space to are their customers.