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 Feb 10 2009, 12:54 PM
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Kotaku is reporting that owners of Grand Theft Auto IV will be able to play on Xbox Live free of charge (i.e. with no Gold membership) from February 17th to the 22nd as a way of celebrating the launch of the Lost and Damned downloadable content pack.
Microsoft hasn't made Live free for this long on the Xbox 360 before, so if you only have a Silver account, make sure you take advantage of this charitable gesture - but only if you play GTA IV or the LaD DLC; no free Halo I'm afraid! [Source: Kotaku] -------------------- QUOTE (Psy) Well, I must be honest, I do occasionally have the odd night off where I stick my fingers in as many pussy's as I can php stands for psy humping pussy zomg it's DuffMan's clone.  |
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Feb 10 2009, 02:34 PM
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 Boss  Group: Gold Member Posts: 1,285 Joined: 6-May 08 Member No.: 40,397 |
This is a great idea and a great way to sell some subscriptions to people who've maybe never played online.
I think at this point in time, if people don't have a Gold account, they probably can't afford it or don't have their Xbox connected to a network. I agree it's a nice gesture though. Servers are probably going to be slammed all week.  |
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Feb 10 2009, 04:19 PM
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Upstanding Citizen Group: Members Posts: 0 Joined: 28-August 04 From: Maidstone, England Member No.: 1,351 |
Yeah, the servers will probably be crammed to hell, but it wasn't that bad when GTA IV was released so it should be okay. Considering they didn't run a beta, things went very smoothly indeed tbh - Gears 2 shows how bad it can be if you don't test the code. I'll probably be busy in singleplayer anyway though, unless the new multiplayer modes are totally different from the existing ones.
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 Feb 10 2009, 07:16 PM
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 Forgot about member titles for awhile there... Group: Gold Member Posts: 735 Joined: 12-September 04 From: Canawda Member No.: 1,564 |
It should be free always.
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Feb 10 2009, 09:26 PM
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 doesn't play well with others...  Group: Staff Posts: 2,316 Joined: 28-March 08 From: michigan... Member No.: 38,893 XBL Gamertag: your mother... PSN Name: artistadam Xfire Identity: i said your mother!! |
i'm sure microsnot had this planned ever since they paid $50,000,000 for a $20 add-on...
it's a nice gesture though... but, always free is always better, right D-O?  ...
--------------------  QUOTE (Massacre @ Mar 15 2011, 01:24 AM)  Oh, good one. The "you're on the internet so you must have no life" insult isn't moronic or unoriginal at all. You must, without a doubt, be a very important member of society, not at all a waste of the already barely valuable gift of life. As is the case for everyone who takes issue with people who make them sad on the internet, you are one of two kinds of people: You are exactly what you claim I am, and that is a lonely, pathetic basement dweller. You life is spent eating eight pounds of junk food per day, masturbating to anything you find online that's even remotely feminine, and wishing you had good looks and social skills. You continue to live with your mother until she dies of a combination of lung cancer and liver failure brought on by the chain-smoking and heavy drinking she used to cope with what a failure you are. Your mother mercifully dead and free of the living embodiment of failure she regretfully thrust from her loins, the bills start to pile up and you, unemployed and unable to pay these bills (of course), lose the house and everything in it. Somehow even more of a failure than you already were, you wander from place to place eating out of dumpsters and sleeping in your own filth until you finally die of AIDS, which you contracted from a diseased whore you scrounged up enough money to pay for, so you could finally lose your virginity while at the same time pretending that your mother was back in your life. Or: You are the type who was an athlete in high school, who was genetically doomed to be an idiot but managed to finish school and even get a college scholarship because you were so good at a worthless children's game. You went off to college with a suitcase full of polo shirts and condoms, the polo shirts, because you're a douche, and the condoms to prevent you from impregnating the dim-witted young college girls whom you could never touch without the aid of Rohypnol, a drug you refer to as "roofies" because you can neither spell or pronounce Rohypnol. You scrape by with borderline D's for the next four years, and leave the campus to go out into the real world where your realize you're not intelligent or talented enough to do anything of value with your life. Misery and minimum wage ensues for thirty years, then you blow your brains out, and your corpse, alone and forgotten, is not discovered until the smell of rotting flesh seeps under your door and your bodily fluids finally soak through the floor of your studio apartment and into the room below you. Your body is cremated, the ashes scraped into a garbage bin because there was no one in your life who valued you enough to pay for a casket, funeral, or burial plot. You're undoubtedly one of the two, otherwise you would have better things to do than complain about the theme of a forum that doesn't care about anything you have to say.  |
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Feb 11 2009, 03:44 AM
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QUOTE(bOnEs @ Feb 10 2009, 09:26 PM) [snapback]1483187[/snapback] i'm sure microsnot had this planned ever since they paid $50,000,000 for a $20 add-on... it's a nice gesture though... but, always free is always better, right D-O? ...No it shouldn't always be free. You pay for quality and you get quality. If you don't pay then you get shit (see PS3). As a rich bastard I have both consoles, and I am speaking from personal experience. The only shit I play on the PS3 is their exclusives, every other game especially if it is online I play on Xbox. This post has been edited by Roman: Feb 11 2009, 03:45 AM  |
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Feb 11 2009, 05:41 PM
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doesn't play well with others... Group: Staff Posts: 2,316 Joined: 28-March 08 From: michigan... Member No.: 38,893 XBL Gamertag: your mother... PSN Name: artistadam Xfire Identity: i said your mother!! |
QUOTE(Roman @ Feb 10 2009, 10:44 PM) [snapback]1483250[/snapback] QUOTE(bOnEs @ Feb 10 2009, 09:26 PM) [snapback]1483187[/snapback] i'm sure microsnot had this planned ever since they paid $50,000,000 for a $20 add-on... it's a nice gesture though... but, always free is always better, right D-O? ...No it shouldn't always be free. You pay for quality and you get quality. If you don't pay then you get shit (see PS3). As a rich bastard I have both consoles, and I am speaking from personal experience. The only shit I play on the PS3 is their exclusives, every other game especially if it is online I play on Xbox. that's like, your opinion, man... everyone who has a PS3, loves the free online gaming... -------------------- QUOTE (Massacre @ Mar 15 2011, 01:24 AM) Oh, good one. The "you're on the internet so you must have no life" insult isn't moronic or unoriginal at all. You must, without a doubt, be a very important member of society, not at all a waste of the already barely valuable gift of life. As is the case for everyone who takes issue with people who make them sad on the internet, you are one of two kinds of people: You are exactly what you claim I am, and that is a lonely, pathetic basement dweller. You life is spent eating eight pounds of junk food per day, masturbating to anything you find online that's even remotely feminine, and wishing you had good looks and social skills. You continue to live with your mother until she dies of a combination of lung cancer and liver failure brought on by the chain-smoking and heavy drinking she used to cope with what a failure you are. Your mother mercifully dead and free of the living embodiment of failure she regretfully thrust from her loins, the bills start to pile up and you, unemployed and unable to pay these bills (of course), lose the house and everything in it. Somehow even more of a failure than you already were, you wander from place to place eating out of dumpsters and sleeping in your own filth until you finally die of AIDS, which you contracted from a diseased whore you scrounged up enough money to pay for, so you could finally lose your virginity while at the same time pretending that your mother was back in your life. Or: You are the type who was an athlete in high school, who was genetically doomed to be an idiot but managed to finish school and even get a college scholarship because you were so good at a worthless children's game. You went off to college with a suitcase full of polo shirts and condoms, the polo shirts, because you're a douche, and the condoms to prevent you from impregnating the dim-witted young college girls whom you could never touch without the aid of Rohypnol, a drug you refer to as "roofies" because you can neither spell or pronounce Rohypnol. You scrape by with borderline D's for the next four years, and leave the campus to go out into the real world where your realize you're not intelligent or talented enough to do anything of value with your life. Misery and minimum wage ensues for thirty years, then you blow your brains out, and your corpse, alone and forgotten, is not discovered until the smell of rotting flesh seeps under your door and your bodily fluids finally soak through the floor of your studio apartment and into the room below you. Your body is cremated, the ashes scraped into a garbage bin because there was no one in your life who valued you enough to pay for a casket, funeral, or burial plot. You're undoubtedly one of the two, otherwise you would have better things to do than complain about the theme of a forum that doesn't care about anything you have to say. |
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Feb 11 2009, 05:56 PM
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 My Penis, Your ass. Lets go. Group: Gold Member Posts: 420 Joined: 2-August 04 From: Virginia Beach Member No.: 14 |
I dont know, i recently bought an xbox360 for DLC for fallout 3 and GTA 4, and it seems lame compared to the ps3.
The Xbox is louder, the controller requires double a batteries and theres no internal wifi... Also, i find the menu cluttered. but 40 bucks for an entire year of online play isn't that much tbh. Im not a big fan of "microtransactions" though. -------------------- Seether - Country Song Download Now QUOTE (Massacre @ Aug 26 2010, 04:28 PM) I've found it's impossible to be more human than human. Inhuman, however, is easy.   |
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 Feb 11 2009, 07:36 PM
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 Clepto Group: Members Posts: 154 Joined: 21-August 04 From: Muscle Shoals, Alabama Member No.: 908 XBL Gamertag: IanCredible988 |
QUOTE(Qdeathstar @ Feb 11 2009, 11:56 AM) [snapback]1483344[/snapback] I dont know, i recently bought an xbox360 for DLC for fallout 3 and GTA 4, and it seems lame compared to the ps3. The Xbox is louder, the controller requires double a batteries and theres no internal wifi... Also, i find the menu cluttered. but 40 bucks for an entire year of online play isn't that much tbh. Im not a big fan of "microtransactions" though. I think you're talking about the XBL Marketplace. I'll admit, not much of a fan of that. That gametrailers video for the lost and damned that you can watch at game trailers for FREE, they charge you 150 MSP for SD and 250 MSP for HD. Re-fucking-tarded.  |
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Feb 12 2009, 09:57 AM
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QUOTE(Qdeathstar @ Feb 11 2009, 06:56 PM) [snapback]1483344[/snapback] The Xbox is louder, the controller requires double a batteries and theres no internal wifi... Install GTA IV on the hard drive, then the console will be as silent as a dead squirrel.  |
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Feb 12 2009, 12:56 PM
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 Still Standing Group: Gold Member Posts: 1,433 Joined: 3-August 04 From: London, England Member No.: 439 PSN Name: BushkaUK |
Online fees on a console still exist in this day and age... IT SHOULD BE FREE ALWAYS (as stated by my favourite chum DO)!
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Feb 12 2009, 04:56 PM
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 Nobody Special Group: Gold Member Posts: 34 Joined: 2-January 05 From: London, England Member No.: 7,717 |
It'd be funny if they fuck up and L&F ends up free for everyone to download for £0.00, so much for that $50 million
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Feb 12 2009, 06:05 PM
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QUOTE(DuPz0r™ @ Feb 12 2009, 01:56 PM) [snapback]1483485[/snapback] Online fees on a console still exist in this day and age... IT SHOULD BE FREE ALWAYS (as stated by my favourite chum DO)! Agreed. N/T  |
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