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Why Downloadable Content Is NOT the Way of the Future.
DryvBy | 9:09 PM on 08.22.2008 20 comments


I'm making this short. The internet is going communist. Here's the best line I've ever seen in these news stories.

"This isn't really an issue that's just going to be about Frontier," said Philip Dampier, a Rochester-based technology writer who is campaigning to get Frontier to back off its plans. "Virtually every broadband provider has been suddenly discovering that there's this so-called `bandwidth crisis' going on in the United States."

So, what's this mean? Well, if I want to download Siren for the PS3 and some map packs, guess what, I have to pay Mr. Greedy "Let's Kill 80% of the World" Ted Turner and his Time Warner BS company extra to download over my limit. Eff you. I'll steal cable, jerkwads.

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Aaron Mxy Yost's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/22/2008 21:20
Aaron Mxy Yost
Communist? Oh no, that's capitalism. In Soviet Russia broadband would be provided for you. It would also probably be capped much more severely, and simply turned off when you hit your limit.
GrayFox's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/22/2008 21:26
GrayFox
There will be more broadband in the future..
Seolfer Wulf's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/22/2008 21:37
Seolfer Wulf
Communism works. People don't.
Wexx's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/22/2008 21:38
Wexx
the only broadband problem in America is that we were supposed to be fully fiber-optic years ago, but apparently it's too expensive for the ISPs/Telecoms that can buy huge fucking Television screens to put in their corporate lobby that are bigger than football fields.
Wexx's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/22/2008 21:39
Wexx
Also: What Mxyzptlk said.
Daxelman's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/22/2008 23:03
Daxelman
Fiber Optics aren't expensive to buy, but to maintain.

That's why Verizon has just about no one using it's Fi-Os down South. They charge way to fucking much.

Anyone can buy them, it's the maintenance that's a bitch.
Aertyr's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/23/2008 00:28
Aertyr
jkljhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhk
Too Much Coffee Man's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/23/2008 00:55
Too Much Coffee Man
pay per GB will fail FAAAAAAAAAIIIIIILLLLLLL

best thing you can do is boycott it by getting DSL & when you cancel, let them know it is BECAUSE of their $ fleecing broadband plan. The only way they'll stop is if they realize they're losing more money than pay per GB would earn them.
ajaxender's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/23/2008 02:23
ajaxender
Ah, so what you mean is that its not gonna happen in the near future; fair enough, fair enough. There is a lot of bullshit to go through at the moment just to get internet, no matter where you live it seems. But its gonna happen. Oh yes, its going to happen.
Sharpless's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/23/2008 03:51
Sharpless
...and coming from Reaprar, that's a serious burn.
Timmeh's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/23/2008 03:57
Timmeh
Most ISPs in the UK already give you a monthly bandwidth limit and charge extra/cut you off if you go over it. We also have what must be some of the slowest broadband speeds in the developed world and places that can't even get DSL, never mind lots of places don't have cable and lol when it comes to fibre optics.

Sucks doesn't it?
RJG's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/23/2008 04:28
RJG
I liev in Australia. I am paying $80 a month for a 1.5MB download plan with 256k upload speed and a 70GB download cap.

If I hear another American whinge about poor internet service I'm going to buy Gabe's iChoke and strangle the lot of you.
DryvBy's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/23/2008 08:42
DryvBy
@Reaprar

Wait. I'm an idiot because I don't want to pay PER GB?

@RJG
That sucks, but we live in a country where we can somewhat take down these crappy organizations that claim this.
DryvBy's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/23/2008 08:45
DryvBy
What bothers me is the companies that will be affected by this, like APPLE and Microsoft and Sony. Heck, Nintendo. I buy a downloadable game a week and download any demo I can touch. As a gamer, we CONSTANTLY are using our GBs by playing just a few matches of Halo.
blehman's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/23/2008 10:12
blehman
I thought this would be a well thought out post describing why dlc would not be the way, why hard copies of things would always sell, and why an EMP would completely destroy all your games.

Instead I got this.
EternalDeathSlayer's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/23/2008 11:58
EternalDeathSlayer
I always though Comcast was terrible with their bandwith throttling, but we certainly aren't charged any extra for downloading too much.

Sucks to be you.
Sharpless's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/23/2008 20:04
Sharpless
@EternalDeathSlayer
Actually, you're wrong there. If you go over a certain, unknown amount of bandwidth in a billing month, they will charge you for the excess. Or they did. This may have changed, but there were plenty of reports of this happening, at the start of the Comcast fiasco.
TrailerParkJesus's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/23/2008 20:49
TrailerParkJesus
I think they're testing out a monthly pay per-GB somewhere in Beaumont, TX or something. I hope that yields bad results, because I'm not paying for movies again :)
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