I've bought one game magazine since the 360 launched.

Cletus · Post by **Cletus** » 24 Aug 2006 08:14 pm

Thanks to the Marketplace I no longer need the demo disc.I love it.I absolutely hated paying for the arsefuck opinions of Kevin Cheung and his dud writers who are all sided with Bald and now that we have the marketplace things are so much better.

I don't know if MS or Sony made anything out of the official mags but in the end,not spending that cash on the magazines is great.No more wondering WTF when it comes to their lame mag injokes,pandering to moronic letters and crap preschool artwork.

Sony should definitely copy this too.

Death to OAXM.

jizzlobber · Post by **jizzlobber** » 24 Aug 2006 08:17 pm

I only ever bought it when I saw a demo I wanted (I bought about 5 all up).

now I can save the 18 bux (or whatever it is) and play the demos months earlier.

marketplace is awesome!

Candy Arse · Post by **Candy Arse** » 24 Aug 2006 08:17 pm

Buy Edge. Also re-register at DH.

flipswitch · Post by **flipswitch** » 24 Aug 2006 08:21 pm

Does downloading demos cost anything?

cloud · Post by **cloud** » 24 Aug 2006 08:29 pm

Spoonfan · Post by **Spoonfan** » 24 Aug 2006 08:40 pm

I'm with Cletus, I haven't bought an issue of OXM since the 360 came out. It's bloody fantastic.

cloud · Post by **cloud** » 24 Aug 2006 08:44 pm

Yea MP is one of the best features on 360.

selfish · Post by **selfish** » 24 Aug 2006 09:11 pm

i reckon it sounds fucking awesome, especially around e3 (or whatever) time

mech · Post by **mech** » 24 Aug 2006 09:49 pm

Candy Arse wrote:Buy Edge. Also re-register at DH.

Indeed, I've never bought a console magazine after subbing to Edge. Think I've got another two years left on it, love it.

Oh yeah and the whole demo thing on the 360 is awesome, a lot of the reason I pirated my old consoles was for games I just wanted to see but not really play... with this, I don't have to bother, can download something like FNR3, play the demo, marvel at the graphics, and then I'm done with it and haven't wasted $120.

And for something like Burnout Revenge, I realise how awesome the game is, and actually buy it

Talez · Post by **Talez** » 24 Aug 2006 10:18 pm

1 Year (13 issues) @ £72.00

72 POUNDS?!? ARE THE PAGES INLAID WITH GOLD?!?

Sheesh. I pay like 60 bucks a year for my Atomic sub.

mech · Post by **mech** » 24 Aug 2006 10:24 pm

Yeah Atomic was crazy cheap, I think I got 2 years for $80 or something... I let that lapse recently though, I found it got too boring.

I paid something crazy like $400-500 for a 3 year sub to Edge, worth every penny

malicho · Post by **malicho** » 24 Aug 2006 10:44 pm

1 Year (13 issues) @ £72.00

Works out cheaper than buying it at the newsagent (air-freight anyway). Worth every cent, but I agree about MP, I only ever bought official mags for the demos, I cringe just thinking about the 'journalism' in them. Complete waste of money. Even the couple of PSP demos around are nice (Loco Roco and others I think).

lestat · Post by **lestat** » 24 Aug 2006 11:06 pm

mech wrote: Oh yeah and the whole demo thing on the 360 is awesome, a lot of the reason I pirated my old consoles was for games I just wanted to see but not really play... with this, I don't have to bother, can download something like FNR3, play the demo, marvel at the graphics, and then I'm done with it and haven't wasted $120.

And for something like Burnout Revenge, I realise how awesome the game is, and actually buy it

Same, the market place/demo downloads is really one of the best things to hit consoles in a long while.

Ambrose Burnside · Post by **Ambrose Burnside** » 25 Aug 2006 10:14 am

lestat wrote:
mech wrote: Oh yeah and the whole demo thing on the 360 is awesome, a lot of the reason I pirated my old consoles was for games I just wanted to see but not really play... with this, I don't have to bother, can download something like FNR3, play the demo, marvel at the graphics, and then I'm done with it and haven't wasted $120.

And for something like Burnout Revenge, I realise how awesome the game is, and actually buy it
Same, the market place/demo downloads is really one of the best things to hit consoles in a long while.

Definitely. I've said it a lot with regards to things the 360 offers, but if Sony don't copy this they're retards!

Faraday · Post by **Faraday** » 25 Aug 2006 01:35 pm

How soon after it comes out in the UK do you get it Mech? If its within a week or two, I will subsribe for sure.

mech · Post by **mech** » 25 Aug 2006 02:27 pm

It's airmail, so it's usually within two weeks at the latest.

jizzlobber · Post by **jizzlobber** » 25 Aug 2006 02:29 pm

there's a F.E.A.R. demo in the latest OXM, it isn't on the marketplace though.

maybe MS are trying to help out the official rag

Ram · Post by **Ram** » 25 Aug 2006 03:18 pm

I never been into game mags,I bought the quake bible once tho lol.

I love the MP,I already filled my hd with demo's and had to delete a whole lot.I gonna have to delete some more as i only got 2 gigs left again.

My internet here in NZ has a 10 gig cap and i never ever got close to the limit for like 2 years untill i got the 360.I been using 8-9 gig a month since i got the 360,mostly cause of the demo's.

Talez · Post by **Talez** » 25 Aug 2006 03:22 pm

mech wrote:It's airmail, so it's usually within two weeks at the latest.

That sucks. Is it through Royal Mail? I remember when I got something posted to me by Royal Mail. Costed 3 pounds and I had it in 3 working days.

mech · Post by **mech** » 25 Aug 2006 03:26 pm

Beats me, it just shows up in my mailbox and I read it