Dollar Exposure

Another story that brings negativity to my beloved online gaming. Firstly you gotta be a complete retard to die while gaming.  But in China a man died from exhaustion after a 3 day gaming binge. The 30 year old man died in a cybercafe after gaming for 3 days straight.   Emergency medical personnel attempted to revive him but found they could not, he was declared dead at the internet cafe.

China has the second highest population of internet users. They are second only to the United States. This creates a fantastic market for online games, and anyone who plays warcraft knows what a Chinese gold farmer is.

Tens of millions of Chinese play MMO’s and many do so for long periods at cyber cafes.

Many cities have clinics set up to help treat “internet addiction”.
One of the “symptoms” of internet addiction is surfing the net or gaming for days at a time. “Pro” gamers in china wear diapers or have chemical toilets  so they dont have to get up to use the restroom.

For the record, I pwn, and I manage to get up to use the facilities too.

Xbox live went down for a lengthy period of time on the 25th of September. Players who pay for the service were unable to make use of it, on one of the biggest days for xbox live.

Halo 3, a very anticipated game was released on September 25,  as million of people loaded up their treasure and connected to the fee based Xbox Live, it stopped working. This has caused untold pain and anguish in the game fans.

But hey! Who makes Xbox Live? Thats right, Microsoft, the makers of a crappy operating system. Why should their gaming platform be any better?

I think its a terrible shame that people are paying for a service that when wanted most, fails. Get on the ball and get that fixed!

Well its got John Woo’s name so we know its gonna be good. The graphics look outstanding, the reviews make it sound worth the money. The story looks deep and twisting as is the norm for a John Woo story. I want to play it.

Whats the trouble? Well, Direct2Drive has it listed as a 50GB file.

I dont know about you, but thats a bit much for ONE game.

I think these guys are in with the crew from “Jackass”. Its apparent from the level of quality of the equipment that this is not some random stunt. I think its very amusing, but should not be tried at home.