Comments for Achievement Junkie - 06/25/2008 at http://talkingaboutgames.com , comment 1 to 7 out of 7 comments http://talkingaboutgames.com Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:09:25 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://talkingaboutgames.com/podcasts/aj/1462-achievement-junkie-06252008#comment-2986 I love digital formats for media. But it scares me too. I agree with devsterC in that I don't wanna get screwed. I want to be able to transfer my content every time I buy a new computer/Xbox/ipod forever and I don't think that it's too much to ask. DRM though makes it so you can only do that a limited number of times and I don't think that's fair. - Leslie Widner Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:22:08 +0100 http://talkingaboutgames.com/podcasts/aj/1462-achievement-junkie-06252008#comment-2972 In the same note as DevsterC, downloadable content, which admitedly is extremely convenient, cannot currently be transfered nor resold, which seems to be a huge disadvantage given the price of new games. I own nearly 30 games, and the most I payed for one was about 45€ for COD4 (new), the cheapest cost about 10€ (Perfect Dark Zero, used), with about 30€ being perhaps a good average. These are Ebay.co.uk pound prices converted to euros. Since games on the stores around here cost 60-70€ each, you can see that not being able to buy used games, or new games from cheaper sellers, is a huge disadvantage. - João Pedro Martins Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:20:38 +0100 http://talkingaboutgames.com/podcasts/aj/1462-achievement-junkie-06252008#comment-2957 As always, another great episode! I am all for downloadable content. It makes life so much easier. I remember driving around in my '81 Volkswagon Rabbit (cool, huh?) with a case which held 30 cassettes in my back seat...because you never know when you will need to switch out the Digital Underground tape for Pretty Hate Machine just to impress that cute alternative girl from English class. Anyway, we all traded our enormous cassette holders for the more streamlined CD pockets. That was still a bit tedious. Now all I use is digital music. It is user-friendly and immediate. I buy an album from iTunes, sync it to MiPod and then I can take my entire music collection wherever I go. Same holds true for gaming. I know it sounds lazy, but often times I'll play from the arcade just so I don't have to swap out a disc. I understand that some people may have concerns about whether their digital copy of a game will be compatible with a next-next gen console. Who cares? Do I really miss my D-Nice cassette tape?? Heck no! I think the number of games that hold their replay value during a console generation evolution is minimal at best. - Andrew Charland Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:03:48 +0100 http://talkingaboutgames.com/podcasts/aj/1462-achievement-junkie-06252008#comment-2951 Hello Nelson and Natalie! I just got back from vacation, and I was away from my computer for about 10 days. After I synched my iPod, your podcast was the first one listen to out of the 8-10 I subscribe to. It is always fun, informative and compeling. I love the new format! To comment on last weeks topic, I would love the option of downloadable content. We recently got Lego Indy, and the disk sometimes locks up. It seems that at a recent game party we were invited to, the 360 that the kids were playing Lego Indy on got bumped, leaving a couple of scratches in the disk. This would not have happened if we had the option of downloading the softwear. Now the kids are very disapointed when the game locks up. P.S. I am too, because now I don't know if I will finish the game. Take care and know you have a fan in everything you two do! - Tom Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:23:15 +0100 http://talkingaboutgames.com/podcasts/aj/1462-achievement-junkie-06252008#comment-2948 hey i'm haqveing problems downloading this episode on the zune marketplace it keeps saying that the server can'y be reached - Andrew Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:27:33 +0100 http://talkingaboutgames.com/podcasts/aj/1462-achievement-junkie-06252008#comment-2872 I like the [i]idea[/i] of downloading content. But I don't trust any of the DRM providers. MS just rescinded it's cancellation of the 'Playforsure' service (for instance). I also think the price point is bad. Seriously the $7 HD movie 'rental' is not worth me not using Netflix. And really $2 for a TV episode, please. I have a 2 tb NAS drive, when i buy a DVD, I rip it and store it. When I buy music it goes to a library on the NAS, I like the ease of having my media available from my PC/Mac/Ps3/Xbox - (another hit on buying a TV/Movie from live, I can only play it where that 360 is attached). Oh, and I'd give you an under 13 rating, there's nothing remotely offensive about your show (think vanilla). I can only assume the person complaining was some kind of halfwit. And really, who listens to podcasts about games, I think you've gone past casual gaming when you subscribe to AJ's podcast. - Kirt Thomas Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:01:47 +0100 http://talkingaboutgames.com/podcasts/aj/1462-achievement-junkie-06252008#comment-2848 One of the concerns I have with 'the digital stuff' is that you (usually) cannot transfer ownership, even though (in theory) it's yours to do with what you wish once you buy it. If I buy a book, I can sell it to someone at work or give it away to a cousin or whatever. I can't lend an XBLA game, but I can lend my GoW disc to someone. It's harder to do that stuff with 'digital only' content. The discussion on porting the XBLA content to a next gen system is just like this - will someone have to redownload, port the game somehow and play with some emulation/backward compatibility, get some kind of a viewer they can use on their PC for it etc etc? Being asked to buy the same content multiple times is brutal - I understand technical issues around why I needed to buy SFII on XBLA instead of using my old SNES cart - but rebuying the stuff 15 or 20 years later didn't feel so bad as someone asking me to rebuy something 3 or 4 years later. I buy digital content. But I worry very much that 'the man' sees it as a loan and not a purchase. When he revokes his authentication server, or xbox live service goes down, or whatever, I've bought something I can't use, and he doesn't care. The lifespan of digital purchases seems to be so brief as new formats or providers come along, and is so horrendously dependent upon the whims of those provider, as software 'phones home' to see if the person is [i]really[/i] allowed to use it, it is scary to a lot of folks. This ramble really means that I'm pro-digital download, but wary. Want it to be good, but don't want to be screwed. - Devin Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:04:11 +0100