BlessedWrath

Xavier, how can you point out hipocrisy when you, in the same breath, both defend Oblivion's load times and berate the load times of Burnout: Revenge, and Fight Night 3?

Shouldn't that make you a hypocrite as well?

Beyond that, your incessant pursuit of pointless semantics and unimportant grammatical errors is, at best, irritating. So long as you point to a typo and say "See?! That's why you're wrong!", nobody will take you seriously.

My very first thought, when I read your first reply (and, yes, I did read the whole thing, as well as all subsequent replies), was to shake my head and sigh. Why? Because you're just the same as that Christian guy who got himself on TV and started yelling about how Christians worldwide needed to rebel against those who were persecuting them.

Do you think anyone at all took him seriously? I'll stake my worth as a person on the idea that the Pope himself was embarrassed by it.

If you really want your opinions to be heard, I would suggest the following steps:

1) Formulate a coherent, valid, and properly worded response.

2) Post said response in a non-threatening manner, so that people won't simply shut you down out of hand, without giving it a chance. (On that note, I'm probably one of about three people who read every word)

3) Stop getting hung up on the finer details. If you have a point to make, make it. Nobudy carz if u typ wroung thei wll undrestand it n e whey. Right? Right.

4) Finally, the purpose of a blog is not to "win". Stop treating this like a battlefield and actually consider what the bloody thing was written for.

When you can do all that, I will consider hearing your voice -or, rather, seeing your type- again. Until that time, piss off!

Now, as to the Joystiq issue, I rather enjoyed the article. It said what it needed to in a concise and (I believe) professional manner. It was a bit opinionated, but this is the hangup of free speech.

I agree that bugs are a major issue, and need to be dealt with. However, I also agree that people will continue to play the ones that end up being tolerable, and they may even enjoy some of them. Personally, I don't buy games unless I rent them or play them first, or I hear a recommendation from a person I know has an IQ above double digits. It won't solve every issue, but many of them can at least be cushioned this way.

As for the developers, TALK WITH THEM! The inherrent assumption in this article is that the developers are only out to show you just enough to take your money. That isn't always true. A great deal of the world is corrupt; fine, I can see that. But everyone? Nah. Most people are reasonable enough to at least consider your opinions, especially if you're the one lining their pockets.

There. Now you have MY three cents, I think I'll run off to my Gameboy Advance and enjoy some horrible games.

Ciao.