Click said:
I'm sure all of these new PS+ subscribers didn't pay money to have a chance to become a beta tester. The PS+ subscribers that were subscribers prior to this announcement may not have paid to be a KZ3 beta tester, but those who just became a subscriber most definitely did. Keep on drinking that Koolaid, bro.
Your statements contradict each other :lol
As for MAG / Zipper vs. KZ2 / GG, I don't know how you can argue how these 2 first party devs treated their fans and how they patched their games. Zipper came out with 4 patches. They fixed most issues people had with the game and actually listened to the fanbase for the most part. Sure, they sometimes screwed up the game with their patches and the game isn't perfect, but what online game is?
Im not arguing that, as a matter of fact, I never even brought it (fan "treatment") up!
Regardless of the end results, the situation still the same though. My comment was in regards to your initial statement:
"I'm not going to pay money to help GG make KZ3 a better game"
And like I said, you want to be a beta tester for KZ3, but not pay for PS+, but when it came to MAG, you were willing to pay retail price (?) for a game that also needed some tweaks after release.
What has GG done to KZ2 that makes them so worthy of GAF's praise and worship? Absolutely shit, that's what. People like me, Lince, and the various hardcore fans on the official forums have listed so many flaws with KZ2 for months on end, hoping GG will fix at least half of the things wrong with the game, but all they did was change the way the game controlled (which didn't need to be changed) and immediately started work on KZ3.
I don't know what they have done, but they must have done something to, like you stated, have the praise and worship of many GAF members :lol whether you or I care or recognize those things doesn't really matter. And fact is, despite all your complaints towards them (and KZ2), you still want to play their next game, and even get upset at the fact that you might not even be able to beta test.
Face it, GAF is a bunch of graphic-whore fanboys that love defending extremely flawed games and their developers. They ignore glaring, game-breaking issues in favor of splurging on eye candy. Now, you guys are defending Sony's decision to make a money grab just so you can have a shot to play the beta, acting like PS+ is some sort of great service when most of you berated MS at one time or another in the past for their shitty business practices. I predict most of you won't even provide substantial feedback to GG and are going to treat this "public" beta as yet another glorified demo.
And you are one that after playing the "extremely flawed game" still want to play the next game of the series made by the same developer....
As for PS+, I don't really care, I'm not a subscriber and Im not planning to be one either, at least not for now. BUT, it isn't hard to see that unlike XBL, it does offer many more things, not only features, but actual games as well.... hell, in this very thread, people that were skeptical before have mentioned that they got their money's worth soon after.
The day PS+ actually holds back
essential services like XBL, then we can call it a shitty business practice and compare it to XBL, but such comparisons, for now, are just grasping for straws