20th June 2010, 11:10 PM
Netflix does just fine with purely a monthly fee for their streaming service. Paying for permission to BROWSE A STORE is just stupid. Either charge purely for the game rentals, or pay a flat monthly fee.
According to them the response time is surprisingly quick, so that's nice. However yes, the video quality is pretty blurry.
Oh, and you don't need the box at all. The box is only there for people without computers (or computers too slow to show streaming video), so that box charge would only be for some cases. For that demographic, a blurry game is better than no game, so they'd probably be fine with it.
At any rate, I prefer to own my games because I really never know when I'll have the time to actually play them, and I like going back again and again (plus being able to modify them any way I want). This isn't really for me. However the current pay plan is just insulting.
According to them the response time is surprisingly quick, so that's nice. However yes, the video quality is pretty blurry.
Oh, and you don't need the box at all. The box is only there for people without computers (or computers too slow to show streaming video), so that box charge would only be for some cases. For that demographic, a blurry game is better than no game, so they'd probably be fine with it.
At any rate, I prefer to own my games because I really never know when I'll have the time to actually play them, and I like going back again and again (plus being able to modify them any way I want). This isn't really for me. However the current pay plan is just insulting.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)