Actually, you have a point here. I've always been fundamentally against 'pay - per - anything' really.
But thinking about it...
When I am at home my father pays for Sky Digital at the rate of 32 pounds a month. When I consider that if I was paying the bill, I think I'd end up paying about 10 pounds a month for each show I actually really wanted to watch.
But having the choice of either, a full monthly charge or pay per view everything might offer a better deal.
It is certainly true as you say that there are a lot of idiots out there on the net, and they spoil it for other gamers. I put this down to the fact that internet access is becoming easier and easier to get, as well as cheaper.
Easier access means that stupider people can get on. Hence the decline.
This can be seen all over the internet, and not just with gaming. Net gets easier, people on the net get stupider.
Personally, I think pay per play would only encourage stupid rich people to spoil it for everyone.
Whereas I am against fascism (and hence the reason why I hate the Computer Science department at Essex University (but thats another story)) I firmly believe that "groupthink" as you call it is a good way to regulate something such as a talker.
As for posting/expressing opinions that might go against the norm, thats only healthy. Its only when you get these complete idiots who shove really unpleasant opinions in your faces that it gets nasty.
And as for suggesting that people won't post/say things that they want to say just because they might get moderated down, frankly I don't care for the opinions of anyone who is so incredibly herd-driven that they fear upsetting someone who probably isn't even in the same country as them.
Moderate this to the minimum score, for all I care.
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Actually, you have a point here. I've always been fundamentally against 'pay - per - anything' really.
But thinking about it...
When I am at home my father pays for Sky Digital at the rate of 32 pounds a month. When I consider that if I was paying the bill, I think I'd end up paying about 10 pounds a month for each show I actually really wanted to watch.
But having the choice of either, a full monthly charge or pay per view everything might offer a better deal.
Again, I have to disagree.
I call, Exhibit A, the English Royal Family.
I rest my case.
I don't think pay to play is the way forward.
It is certainly true as you say that there are a lot of idiots out there on the net, and they spoil it for other gamers. I put this down to the fact that internet access is becoming easier and easier to get, as well as cheaper.
Easier access means that stupider people can get on. Hence the decline.
This can be seen all over the internet, and not just with gaming. Net gets easier, people on the net get stupider.
Personally, I think pay per play would only encourage stupid rich people to spoil it for everyone.
Whereas I am against fascism (and hence the reason why I hate the Computer Science department at Essex University (but thats another story)) I firmly believe that "groupthink" as you call it is a good way to regulate something such as a talker.
As for posting/expressing opinions that might go against the norm, thats only healthy. Its only when you get these complete idiots who shove really unpleasant opinions in your faces that it gets nasty.
And as for suggesting that people won't post/say things that they want to say just because they might get moderated down, frankly I don't care for the opinions of anyone who is so incredibly herd-driven that they fear upsetting someone who probably isn't even in the same country as them.
Moderate this to the minimum score, for all I care.