Then it'd be the same as any other prefab PC on the market, unless Valve is suddenly not in the business to make lots of money. That hardware isn't cheap, and no matter what, you're gunna spend less money building one than you are buying something that's already built like that.

Soooooo they're making a PC? I already have one of those.

Ah, fair enough. You are forgiven.

I know there were other problems with the game, but I wasn't really impressed with the character development in that game. I also hated that I was just being nice to Anders and he thought I wanted to have sex with him, then turned into a whiney bitch when I said no.

Then they're like,

It was pretty awful, so instead of fixing it, they made it so simple it couldn't be awful.

Yeah. Bethesda is starting to get it, but even they were charging way too much for what they were putting out for a while. It sounds like Skyrim will have some pretty substantial "DLC" though.

...I'm not. The last time I recall paying for DLC was probably for Dragon Age: Origins.

Technology these days. I remember when things go so easy to make, regular players could make content. And by remembered I mean that's how it kinda is now. Times have changed, games have changed, and how they're made has changed. You can't really compare then to now without taking all of that into account. Games are…

I know, but it's still relevant because that's totally not how I get DLC that I don't feel is worth paying for.

I dunno. A $60 price tag is iffy. It's way too much for a game like Mass Effect 2, where I only spent somewhere around 35 hours, where as I've nearly doubled that in Skyrim (I've taken a break... that number will grow larger.)

"a brand new bonus track not available anywhere else!"

...Do you use logic like that on a regular basis? I sure hope not.

Perhaps if more people used the word "gay" as meaning "happy" that would be an acceptable explanation, but let's face it; Reasonably close to 100% of the time someone says "that's gay," they aren't referring to how happy something is. Ignoring that fact is ignoring that there's a problem, and ignoring there's a…

You're completely missing the point.

I can understand anything with the word "gay" being noticed, because it's a directly offensive word. "Richard Gaywood" is just an unfortunate name altogether. But Microsoft really has no right to ban people if they're able to verify the validity of such a gamertag. Not if they're spending $60/month.

I don't know why anyone would choose Hotmail over Gmail anyway...

No I know, I never said they were awful, because they've been better than Activision and EA for the most part. I'm definitely looking forward to Skyrim's expansions and DLC, though.

No I know, but size isn't always equal to quality. Also, I don't count Shivering Isles as DLC, it was an expansion pack. Knights of the Nine was borderline expansion pack.

Oblivion didn't, which is what I was referring to. But even then, I feel that some of the early Fallout DLC was overpriced anyway. But certainly closer in value nowadays to, say, a $15 map pack with 3 new maps.