It had an awesome but short single-player/co-op experience, but it also had one of the most repetitive and glitched multi-player portions I've ever played. I don't know why I even still own it, Gears hasn't seen the inside of my disc drive in well over a year.

That's my opinion. If you don't like it, too bad.

[QUOTE="gintheplacetobe"]

[QUOTE="emitsu97"]You buy me the T1 line and the 50 Terabytes of HDD space, then I might be interested.emitsu97

OK?!?! You act like that is needed for this service, yet I can DL a HD movie with only 5 gigs empty on my 360 hard drive and it will be playing in under 10 minutes on a standard DSL connection. :roll:

For how long? I tend to enjoy watching my movies whenever I want. You can't put your rolleyes away.

Huh?

I don't get what your point is. Maybe you could be a little more elaborate? I was simply commenting on you seeming to think you need some crazy hard-drive space with fiber-optics running to it for a digital movie rental service to work, when this obviously isn't the case. All I know is I can rent a HD movie on XBL for the same price of a new release DVD at Blockbuster and I'll be watching it in half the time it would take me to drive to Blockbuster.

All 5 of my 360's have been on a glass shelf, laying flat, with about a foot of empty space in either direction. Not only does my console have about a foot of room in either direction, but the same is true of my power supply. This is inside a room that is always temp. controlled and plugged in to an outlet that is giving the proper voltage and frequency and not fluctuating at all (one thing lots of people don't realize can screw up electronics).

And even after all of this, I'm on my 5th 360. And of the 4 that crapped out on me already, one lasted 2 weeks and another lasted only 5 freakin days. 2 RROD's, 1 disc drive crapped out, and another that couldn't be on for more then 5 minutes w/o completely freezing (even at the dashboard). All were brand new from the store (connections at EB = free store warranties).

^^^That's why people on these forums piss me off when they go "Well, I've had my system for over a year, everyone else must not know how to take care of theirs." People are too ignorant or just too blinded by fanboyism to see the 360 has serious hardware issues.

You buy me the T1 line and the 50 Terabytes of HDD space, then I might be interested.emitsu97

OK?!?! You act like that is needed for this service, yet I can DL a HD movie with only 5 gigs empty on my 360 hard drive and it will be playing in under 10 minutes on a standard DSL connection. :roll:

[QUOTE="gintheplacetobe"][QUOTE="choffy31"]

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I think they should. I hate how I always have MS Points left over, just sitting there rotting on my account. It would be much easier to just say "hey, this Xbox Live Arcade Game costs $10" instead of "you need to buy Points to buy this game, but you'll still have 300 points left afterwards :)"

I know it's a way for Microsoft to squeeze every dollar out of your pocket, but eventually you will spend those MS Points if you buy a lot of stuff.

paul52181

The reason that MS, Sony, and Nintendo sell points or whatever in predetermined chunks is to simply keep the number of credit card transactions down. No company wants to have to do countless credit card transactions of miniscule purchases (that's why a lot of stores have a $10 minimum on credit card purchases). It would be a huge hassle on MS's part besides being harder to keep a decent level of security if they had to process a credit card transaction every time somebody bought a 50 cent gamerpic.

And why would they care about miniscule purchases on credit cards? They don't care about that, they just wanna make their money....it's all about the money for them...why do so many of you defend this stupid system? It's a scam....leftover points, not enough to purchase new content, buy more points, oops...more extra points, more extra money for M$....all about the freakin $$$$$

Why does any store refuse to take your credit card unless you spend at least $5 or $10? Because they get charged for every credit card transaction they have to process. It's no coincidence that they lowest pack of MS points you can get is $5 worth.

This isn't just MS, Sony, and Nintendo who do this... it's any business. Go to a convenience store and try to buy a pack of gum with a credit card, they'll point to a sign next to the register that says $5 minimum on credit cards, MS is just doing the same thing when you're trying to buy a single gamerpic, theme, or whatever.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

I don't even think I've seen a PC with a floppy drive in almost 10 years.

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I think they should. I hate how I always have MS Points left over, just sitting there rotting on my account. It would be much easier to just say "hey, this Xbox Live Arcade Game costs $10" instead of "you need to buy Points to buy this game, but you'll still have 300 points left afterwards :)"

I know it's a way for Microsoft to squeeze every dollar out of your pocket, but eventually you will spend those MS Points if you buy a lot of stuff.

choffy31

The reason that MS, Sony, and Nintendo sell points or whatever in predetermined chunks is to simply keep the number of credit card transactions down. No company wants to have to do countless credit card transactions of miniscule purchases (that's why a lot of stores have a $10 minimum on credit card purchases). It would be a huge hassle on MS's part besides being harder to keep a decent level of security if they had to process a credit card transaction every time somebody bought a 50 cent gamerpic.