Why I Dislike my Xbox 360

[Szymon]

I paid $200 for a system that will break in 1 year. I paid another $60 for Xbox Live. What is Xbox live? Does it provide me with an Internet connection, so I can play with friends? No, my ISP does that. Does it buy me additional content to games I already own? Nope, I have to pay more money for an unnecessarily shitty point system to get that additional content. Does it host games for me so I can have a better gaming experience with my friends? Nope, it's up to the game company or the users to host their own games. So what the fuck am I paying for? It's like trying to go to your friends house, except when you get to the door you find that the lock has been changed and you're locked inside your own home. You look outside your Window and see a skinny old man with an awful haircut holding a key in his hand and smiling. He's telling you that he can provide you with this lovely service. He can open the door and lend you the key for an entire year. This give you access to many great features, which he lists off as though he owns them. These features include seeing your friends whenever you want, meeting new people you've never seen before. Essentially they're selling you a world that somebody else created, and that you already paid for and already have access to. The sad thing is that most people are completely okay with this, and pay the man the money to go outside. Some people are even thrilled with this service that he's providing them. Then you go shopping, and you want to pay for your ice cream cone, but the ice cream man won't accept your money. You need special tokens only available from that skinny fucker that changed your locks. FINE. You go back to the skinny man and ask for enough tokens to buy your ice cream, but he won't sell them to you. You HAVE to buy more than you need because he doesn't sell tokens in small enough amounts. All you wanted to do was go outside and play with your friends and eat some ice cream and they've fucked everything up for you.

If you want to play with me, I'll be on my PC.

PS: I am currently cranky and running on 3 hours sleep and coffee.