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@abdo said:

@lockload: But in relation to other games services like Steam and PSN, it's atrocious. You don't pay to use Steam and PSN, or to play online on their games, and you get ads on one and none on the other. Xbox Live Gold makes you pay for something you get free with its competitors, and still gives you ads. I've always wondered what those costs cover, since not all online games use dedicated servers, if not most of them.

The only response that will have any effect is to not pay for Xbox Live Gold. Vote with your dollar, and see if that has any effect. My guess, not so much. Like Michael Pachter always says , its a profit deal. Money, money, money, take it or leave it. All the whining and bitching will not change a damn thing.

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@Nation764 said:

@cancerdancer said:

"and are often part part of contrats between Microsoft"

PROOF READ YOUR SHIT.

This, among several other examples pointed out. Are you a professional or not? You're paid to be a writer, act like it. These errors don't happen when the other guys write articles, but happen very frequently in yours. No excuse. The fu**ing huge tile of the article has a spelling error!

Also, whine much? Are you a PR rep for Mark of the Ninja or what?

I guess you've never written professionally. Some articles are riddled with errors, they get corrected when the editor-in-chief reads it. You know, like what Jeff did for a decade. That's why his grammar is perfect. And are you really bitching about Patrick whining after whining yourself?

Yes

@cancerdancer said:

"and are often part part of contrats between Microsoft"

PROOF READ YOUR SHIT.

This, among several other examples pointed out. Are you a professional or not? You're paid to be a writer, act like it. These errors don't happen when the other guys write articles, but happen very frequently in yours. No excuse. The fu**ing huge tile of the article has a spelling error!

Also, whine much? Are you a PR rep for Mark of the Ninja or what?

This question is straight forward and Jeff got it completely right. With the adrenaline pumping all you have to do is block the bat with your forearm if its aimed at your head and then start stabbing like that crazy robot cellmate of Fry's did in Futurama. Your forearm is like a steel pipe, it may break, but it will keep you conscious long enough to completely filet the other guy before he can bring the bat back to hit you again. If he aims at your knees or legs, if your close enough for him to hit you with a bat, you can get close enough to stab him even if one leg is barely functional. Once you start getting stabbed it is OVER.

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@mbr said:

This shill should stop commenting on other peoples jobs when he has one of the most bullshit jobs in the world.

A thousand times this.

He does it poorly too. He said on his show that BFBC2 PC sold "probably" 10% of total sales, which he "guessed" was around 8million.

A 5 minute google search indicates that BFBC2 has sold over 9.5million, and the PC having 3.2million users (PS3 around 2.7 and XBox around 3.5) means it more aorund 30% of overall sales.

I stopped watching his dumb show after that, because I can assume as well as him, and when research is needed, at least I actually do it.

You do understand what he is paid to do right?

He is basically asked to make predictions and pretty much guess what stocks will go up and down. And he can only do that by following current trends and going from there. Sometimes he is wrong, sometimes he is right, that is the gamble of going into the stock market. I dont see how Pachter is different from all the other ones that we see on (name your 24/7 news channel of choice here) The only different here is that Pachter is well known in the games industry

He isn't paid to overtly quash the rights of the workers who create games in public by deliberately misconstruing employment laws and standards, mix them with a passionate desire of a lot of his audience to enter the industry and then tell blatant lies.

Or maybe he is.

He's an analyst at a company that ranks consistently in Forbes Magazine and The Wall Street Journal top 10 for analysing various technology and consumer product markets. Last year in Forbes they Wedbush Securities were ranked 1 analyst for computer software and services ... the point is INVESTORS, as in the people who invest money in companies, listen to him. You wanna know where the money for big AAA games come from? Big publicly traded companies rely on investors and investors turn to guys like this. You don't have to like him, but his opinion, like it or not, matters to important people.

This is exactly right. With all of the credentials you just mentioned, along with fact that he has a job where INVESTORS pay him, and continue to pay him, to provide them with advice. He would not have this position if he was doing a bad job. He also would not have a show called "Pach Attack", and you would not even know who he was if he was bad at his job. He gets paid to do what ell of you do for free, so think about who is in a better position to make assessments, him or you.

Patrick, dude, your a nice guy and good at your job, but really we liked the Bombcast before you were on it, so don't talk over everyone and dominate the conversation.  Realize that the Bombcast was made popular without you, and you are not necessary to make it enjoyable, so let the other guys talk, don't talk over them.