Of course I can read. However explicitly telling people not to point out your flawed logic isn't going to stop it from happening.

@XenoFi: well, if it was spoiled for you, its your own fault. The summary text on the main page specifically tells you there are going to be spoilers. The first paragraph when you click the article tells you there are spoilers.

Its not the only option. I can name 10 similar, albeit less known, VOIP services that do the same thing. As far as brand recognition goes, you're right, its not on the same level as Coke. But that wasn't the point of the comparison. If you ask anyone to do a voice chat, 99 times out of 100 the first suggestion is…

my pleasure

So basically Agent 47 is a bag of dicks?

I lol'd. Then I lol'd some more.

Valve purposefully sabotaged Portal 2 on 360? Link me to that if you would.

They will be doing both according to the official statement.

Create? Probably. Create and add the same amount of subscribers at the same time? No. Microsoft purchased the tech AND the brand recognition.

I don't know about that. The standard XBL headset is pretty cheap quality wise and doesn't warrant the price MS is charging. If you notice a significant improvement when upgrading to a better headset, the problem is not with the codec they are using for voice chat, but with the hardware on your head.

Well on MS end the problem would be if they limited the service on PS3 or purposefully degraded the quality on that console. That would amount to sabotage and a nasty lawsuit.

a monopoly is a company having control over an entire industry or portion thereof with no competitors. Buying skype hardly qualifies as this.

@SG-17: how?

@MaigoMan: "They will also continue to "support" non-Microsoft platforms, they assured"

@danielcital: Indeed. If they are seeking Leon, I don't appreciate the unnecessary retcon that Capcom is pulling...

@Sky Nurakh: I can't remember if it was 2 or 3, but at one point you walk into a room and the camera is focused at an upward angle. You insert a key or gem into something and a licker jumps through the glass ceiling. Scared the hell outta me.

@Garlador: But you aren't paying the devs/publisher extra if you buy the game new. Its when you pick it up used from Gamestop that they ask you to pay your way since you aren't contributing to their profits.

@DSylar: yes, [www.capcom.co.jp]

@Gorbishganoid: its on PC. They're using a custom car mod that turns the LCPD cars into NYPD cars.

My point is that the example you used "If they want to go green stop printing thousands of memos and forwarding them around the office daily" doesn't apply to the real world nowadays. Heck, you even stated that your office uses email for simple correspondence, or as the rest of us call them, memos.