Arminator

It's much easier than that. If you intend to keep on Live as a Silver meber, just go to your Xbox Profile, account preferences, and choose Silver.

After the payment you already paid for runs out, you will be a Silver member with no recurring costs.

You only need to call the Hotline if you want to completely cancel your Live account, i.e. have your complete gamertag deleted.

It's much easier than that. If you intend to keep on Live as a Silver meber, just go to your Xbox Profile, account preferences, and choose Silver.

After the payment you already paid for runs out, you will be a Silver member with no recurring costs.

You only need to call the Hotline if you want to completely cancel your Live account, i.e. have your complete gamertag deleted.

Basically, as soon as I heard, that Shadowrun is "just" a Counterstrike with Magic, I had lost all hope for FASA.
I had *so* hoped for a new Mechwarrior game. I mean, I bought a Sidewinder Gamevoice back then just to plan strategies with my friends in a match.
I bought the Steel Batallion Controller with an Xbox Adapter for my PC, just to find out, Mechwarrior Crashes, if it sees a Joystick with more than 32 buttons.

Damn you FASA. As sorry as I am for this studios closing, they also deserve it.

I don't know if I should be sad or mad about it...

Bah. MMORPGs *don't* change the world around me. I heartily reccomend to play the age old Fallout Single player RPG to see what I mean.
For example: If I go to WoW or any other MMORPG i go to a guy with a Question Mark and he tells me "Kill 10 Wolves because [generic reason here]".

Then you kill 10 Wolves and a day later the wolves are back and the Question Mark is there too.

In Fallout, you go into a Village. Everything is peaceful. A farmer complains about his crop. So you can either help him (if you're intelligent enough) by telling him to plant different crops on his fiels each year, or you can shoot him. If you shoot him, the whole village will be pissed, and will attack you. If you return weeks later, the people will still attack you. If you kill the whole village, it will stay dead.

Furthermore, single player RPGs will have meaningful story-driven quests. You will be sent out to rescue something. There will be sidequests involved in this story, and sometimes you cancel the main goal altogether, because it was a trap or something.

This is not doable in a MMORPG. All quests I encounterend in a MMORPG are "Get [certain number] of [certain item] from [location or person] and bring it to [different location or person]".
And if you give a charakter a bad answer, don't worry. A few minutes later he'll reset and you can ask him for that shiny cool sword again after you kicked his balls 30 minutes earlier.

So learn from the old-school RPGs. Not that level-grinding rubbish.

The problem (as a German) that I have with our politics, is their blind activism.

Before going on his killing spree, the killer put up a letter on his homepage, where he criticizes the behaviour of his "friends" and classmates.
He wrote, as long as you have the latest cellphone, the hippest clothes and pimpest friends, you were accepted as a friend.
If you didn't have all that, you were uncool, and an outsider.

And this is what happened to him. He was not accepted by his schoolmates, and this frustrated him.

Furthermore, as a student in a secondary school, he had almost no perspective of getting a good job - a point he also criticized in his letter as a cause of frustration.

He had access to weapons. Weapons in Germany are controlled very strictly. You can't just go into Wal-Mart and buy a gun here.
Its a lot of paperwork and registration stuff, and most of the time you are only allowed to keep the weapon unloaded and locked away.

But instead of solving the apparent social problems in Germany, the politicians choose to ban videogames.