
A gaming site known as NGOHQ.com, decided to boycott Windows Live Gaming Site. Main reasons behind their boycott are given below and they are quite solid reasons.
-Online play only with subscription, even though the game is original
-Only 26 countries available (leaving the rest of 170 countries in the dark)
-Game price tag too high for the amount of commercials in them
-DRM tools with bugs
-LAN-less titles, only windows live access
-Vista-only titles just to promote Vista sales, when they can run on XP also.
Boycott Live? Why?
We have decided to start a boycott campaign against Microsoft’s Games for Windows – Live service because it’s violating our rights as consumers. Microsoft is pushing hard to make online PC gaming exactly like the Xbox’s. They want us to pay additional costs to subscribe to their Live service, and pay more monthly fees for a gold account, or to use the barely/non-working Silver account. Even if a gamer surrenders his soul for the attached fees to Microsoft; he may not even be able to purchase a subscription because the Live service is only available in 26 countries out of the 196 countries. This means that gamers from 170 countries are currently unable to purchase gold subscriptions even if they want to.
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Posted by Fawaz on March 17th, 2008 |