Ok, it' s time to realize when we' re all getting screwed by the industry and this is the time. I' m not sure if anyone else has been paying attention to all this micropayment talk that' s been going on, especially since the GDC, but I think it' s a bunch of bull%$#@. It sounds to me like developers are basically saying, hey why bother to have players able to unlock that cool new bonus multiplayer level in the new timesplitters game by working through the game when we can just sell it to them for $1.99!! Yeah, that sounds good, and then rather than offering for free(gasp!! how could we have been so stupid) all those neat costumes for the latest soul caliber game, we can charge 25 cents a pop!! WE' ll be rich, rich beyond our wildest dreams!!! Hold on, of course these games will have to be online enabled right??? Yes, so of course the gamers can pay the fee to play online as well!!

This stinks worse than the crap I have to work with everyday (And you don' t want to know what I work with). It' s just a blatant cash grab it makes me sick. I personally won' t be supporting any of these features in the games that have them, and if Microsoft can provide them online, you better be able to believe that some hackers will be able to too. I' ve only heard Microsoft talking about it publically, but if they are, then you know Sony and Nintendo are ready to get there fingers into this new mone pot as well.

http://psp.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3138756
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0PJQ/is_8_1/ai_110307521
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/tech/nextnews/archive/next030708.htm

On a side note, where the heck is everybody??? This place has been dead lately.