My frekin goodnes.

Why are all these people so insane.

They spoiled masses. Why can't people be happy with what they get?

If we understand why some people choose to be militantly unhappy, even when they are receiving free goods and services, we will know a lot more about happiness than most advertisers would ever want us to learn.

S.T.F.U

XBOX DOES OWE US RELEASES. WE ARE CUSTOMERS U DUMB FUCK. WE PUT MONEY DOWN BELIEVING THEY WERE GOING TO DELIVER.

You put money down for a game system, not for the Marketplace content. MP has exploded far beyond what anyone who bought the console could have expected, and most of it's FREE. You have no right to complain.

Hey Matt you'd better be getting on ken's ass about this.

Ken Edwards said:
I am not one to complain here Major. You get enough of it as it is, most of which is uncalled for. But it is 3:27 AM EST, meaning 12:27 PST, and I see no Frogger. I only hope to God that you release SF II Hyper Fighting at 12:01 PST on August 2. But regardless, it was said in a press release, at the San Fran event, and here on your blog, and it is past 12:01 PST and I have no Frogger to play. I am beginning to believe the theory that MS is starving us to the point where we will buy ANYTHING put up on XBLA. I don't want to believe this theory, but when Frogger is not live at 12:01, much less 12:30, I begin to wonder. Did a hamster forget to flip a switch? That would be a costly mistake in the mindshare of your loyal 360 customers. I don't think I have to say this, but the natives are getting restless. Sure, I will go to bed, and it will likely (I hope) be available when I wake up. But it would have been nice to play Frogger seeing as I am up right now. Major, you do a wonderful job, and I know this is not your fault. But this sounding board was put here by you. I really appreciate everything you do for the community, and look forward to some day playing Frogger on XBLA.

those people should just be thankful and keep their mouths shut..they would'nt say that to anybodys face.

Jason, as you're already aware, I put my own personal opinion up on Major Nelson's blog, addressing Ken and all of the other negative comments, particularly about Frogger. I think because he's a figurehead for Xbox Live and the 360 console itself, he gets flak from a particular community. He's the only high profile public avenue of communication for Xbox. I would assume (mostly from the terrible spelling, grammar and vocabulary) that the majority of the derogatory and negative comments that poor Larry has to deal with are people who are PS3 Fanboys vainly trying to skew the balance of generally positive comments that Larry both gets and deserves.

If they aren't PS3 fanboys, then they're impatient and very forgetful abuot what life was like in the Pre-360 era, where us old timers had to wait for a coverdisc at the end of every month to see videos and play demos, and if a game had a bug, there was no fix for console gamers. We just had to grin and bear it.

To think, in 8 months we've gotten so accustomed to the superb service that MS has given us that we're too impatient to wait 15 minutes for something we would used to have to wait a month for.

All I know at the end of the day is... I know sure as hell that Sony won't be as open, honest, and informative to the public with the PS Life service as Larry has been with the Xbox community.

One thing's for sure... if this barrage of useless criticism continues, Major Nelson's blog won't be up much longer, and then all the idiots posting negaative comments on it will start bitching about the site being closed instead.

That's something I haven't thought of Andy. The price for Live was the same on the Xbox and we didn't have ANY of this stuff. All these people asking what they're paying for really are acting stupid. I can't believe that didn't hit me up until now. Good point.

I've been a loyal fan of Xbox and now the 360. I admit that there were times, were I thought to myself what are they thinking, like charging the same price for the Xbox and X360's wireless connections. Overall though, I'm pleased with Xbox and even more with the 360. I guess my point is, yeah they do reflect the gamming community, but they aren't the whole gamming community and that's what matters. Also, if we were given new content every other day, would any person be able to really enjoy it? With the E3 content, it was so much to take in for me, I decided to wait a while before I downloaded a new item because I wanted to enjoy what I had, not complain about what I didn't have.

The mass media would describe me as a 'hard core' gamer - in as such I've been playing for nigh on 20 years and have NEVER missed purchasing the latest console. If one of the largest global monsters out there (i.e. Microsoft) can see it fit to provide me with free content, then throttle down, damn right I have a right to complain! (In the retail industry this is known as a bait-and-switch, and is the subject of many complaints!) Working in IT as well as a gamer, I have handed Microsoft over $200,000 (conservative est.) over the past 10 years! While personal threats are not exactly my style - who the hell are Microsoft to decide how much *added value* is enough to give their customers... I predict a revolt...

No, you don't have a "right." It's the summer months. There is no content to give you in the first place. It's not a bait-and-switch. You honestly believe that they can give you the same amount of E3 content all year round? It's not only impossible, it's ignorant to expect that 365 days a year.

I don't care what you've paid them over the years. That doesn't make you different than any other 360 fan. You paid for a console to pay games, and they've provided those. Anything else on top of that is an extra bonus, nothing more, nothing less.

Why are this people always complaining is not like Xbox Live Arcade is any good is just a bunch of crappy demos to get your money Xbox Live will always be lame and stupid.

Oh, you're right. I mean, the fact that the Arcade is home to original games by small developers, superb stuff from PopCap, and classic arcade stuff like Robotron, Smash TV, and more still coming doesn't mean anything.

And those demos are free, as is the Xbox Live Silver service used to get them. Someone has obviously not used it, but I won't mention any names.

Wow. You really can't take a joke, can you Jason.

Ivan, You're obviously in the Sony camp (I mean, having the word "PSP" gives you away there) and have probably never experienced Xbox Live for yourself.

There is MUCH more than just "Crappy Demos to get your money". Sure you get demos (Free demos downloaded direct to your machine), you get Full, original titles, you get trailers for the latest movies and TV shows, HD Music Videos, special promotions, Competitions, Tournaments, and Original exclusive short films as well as the unparalleled and superb Online play.

To cut a long story short Ivan_PSP, Don't knock Xbox Live until you've tried it. I'm sure once you see it for yourself, you'll know why it's so good.

I appreciate the work that Larry does and subscribe to his blog. If the comments are such a problem then he can simply turn comments off though, and perhaps that is what is required when the discussion cannot be productive and/or intelligent.

"If the comments are such a problem then he can simply turn comments off though"

Well, he really can't. It then looks like PR is ignorning their customers, no matter how stupid they're being about this. That would probably be far worse. If they want it to stop, there should be a final message and then take the whole thng down. It'll never happen, but it would be great to see these whining people get theirs in the end.

Xbox is the crappiest system in this whole damn world it has no decent game HALO is over over over hyped is really crap compare to games like SOCOM. Xbox live is always full of lagging servers can Microsoft do anything write i guess they just suck.

I love when people complain about a system they don't own and seemingly never played. Would love to hear about those laggy servers when you sit down and play Ghost Recon. You'd take that comment right back.

Hey u Guys Are all Sad Fighting Over Xbox Live GET A LIFE !!

"It's absolutely absurd that anyone can get that worked up over the release of a 25-year old game, but these Nelson followers apparently think they can get away with it. A comment like that should immediately be looked into, and whoever wrote it honestly deserves to have charges pressed against them. "

It's also pretty absurd that someone could get so worked up over an OBVIOUS idle threat.. and say that that person deserves charges.. Wow.. we really do live in a world of complaining whino's.

in australia they have stoped makeing xbox live orignal cards so i have to get a 360 wtf is up with that