The General Pooter Games Thread.

[Kirsten]

it is a total scam. they make it near impossible to actually stop it happening, no matter how many times you tell them not to. then when you do finally find the right section, ignoring the section they continually link you to, they do the whole song and dance of 'are you sure you want to cancel?' 'really sure?' 'you will miss out on these great benefits'

[Psychosplodge]

That's proper U.S. customer service right there, just like that twenty minute call of a bloke trying to switch his ISP...

[Kirsten]

yup. they must have sensed that I was about to send them a hate filled message of threats because their 'contact us' system is currently down.

[Psychosplodge]

until about mid February no doubt...

[Kirsten]

sounds about right. just got another email from Xbox now telling me that my subscription is going to expire and I need to take steps to renew it. on the one hand, getting more mail from them is a pain, on the other hand I hope that means the cancellation actually worked.

[Psychosplodge]

fingers crossed

[Learn2Eel]

I think they made a mistake by not changing the name enough to differentiate it from the wii. Even a Wii 2 would have probably made a difference. But sales were always going to be slow till games people want came out.
Obviously the fanboys are going to be at the midnight launch, but until theres something you want whats the point of paying top dollar for a console you know will eventually be cheaper?

That's pretty much my take as well, Nintendo screwed up big time with the Wii U marketing and branding. The sales are turning around which is obviously great, the last thing the gaming industry needs is for Nintendo to pull out of the console space.

now I am pissed off

every single year when my Xbox gold membership renews I tell it not to auto renew the following year. every single year the renewal date rolls around and it prompts you again, and I say no, don't auto renew. every single year it auto renews anyway. just got an email now telling me it will auto renew on the 4th of Feb. gone online to my xbox account, gone to the subscriptions page. according to the support page, there is a big 'cancel auto payment' button to click on. except that there isn't. every support article about renewing simply provides a link to the subscription page and tells you to click the button that isn't there. eventually found a different method via the forums, and have yet again selected the do not renew option. if they take the money again this year I am going to damn well prosecute them for theft.

Funnily enough, I had the exact same experience when I canceled my Xbox Live Gold subscription in...was it mid 2013? Anyway, I logged in on my computer and tried to cancel the renewal after sifting through the horrendously backwards website that you dealt with, only to be greeted with a "your computer has changed and is not the primary computer for your account, we will need to re-verify your new computer as your primary computer, this will take at least a month" or something along those lines. Two months later after I had forgotten that I was trying to cancel renewal, I finally got it sorted after having to go through a literal torrent of "are you sure" messages and intentionally obfuscated webpages designed to drive consumers insane before they can find the actual "cancel renewal" prompt. Oh, and they still charged me for those two months too where I didn't even touch my Xbox 360. It's absolutely disgusting and goes to show how the big corporations are allowed to get away with what essentially amounts to theft, I was so disappointed and never bothered to renew again. I reactivated it for a month with my Xbox One with the free voucher that came with the console but chose not to renew the subscription, not until Halo 5 comes out anyway.

By the by, this is a translation of a tweet some big-shot at Sony sent out;

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCE) to sell "PlayStation 4" (PS4 ™), the New Year's holiday shopping season of 2014 ※ 1 in 410 million units ※ 2 to achieve a more real sales, 2015 1 worldwide total actual sales volume is 18.5 million units in the month the 4th time ※ 3 was exceeded. Continue, has continued to spread expansion in history "PlayStation" hardware fastest ever.

As has been confirmed by numerous reputable sources after the tweet went out, that 18.5 million figure is sold through to consumer. Yikes! From what I can tell the PS4 is getting really close to being the fastest selling console ever.

[Mr Mystery]

And I'm yet to buy one! But I will. Oh yes.

And that XBone for my friend, because I said I would and I'm a goon of my word.

[Mr Mystery]

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*runs away*

[eldargal]

UnbeWiivable.