1. If the guy thinks loading screens are anything new he deserves a bullet through the brain to take him out of the gene pool for being so stupid, because they have been around as long as games themselves. Heaven help him if he ever had to use a console that required tape cassettes, or worse yet, one where you have to spend hours actually programming the game first, and if you accidentally nudge the RAM pack you will lose everything.
And to say "don't tell me the technical side" to try and be a cynical smart arse, when clearly if he looked into it why you must install a game his questions would be answered.
2. I remember days when games came out ready to go but still had bugs. I now see updates to fix minor bugs, and only in extreme circumstances (BLOPs) a game being released completely messed up. The only large updates you generally see add new content, and if this guy is seriously complaining because devs are utilising the internet to fix bugs they passed over or to give free content (content you would previously have to buy an expansion pack to get), there is something wrong with him.
3. The guy clearly doesn't like adverts, so should go and sit in a dark corner with the TV off, radio off, never reading, never looking outside and never talking to anybody, because if he were to do that he would encounter an ad in some form or another. So long as the advert is only on a menu rather than actually in game, I don't care. The guy was complaining about load times, yet now he spends enough time on menus to get pissed off by the adverts, rather than just going into the game?
4. Steam, Microsoft, Sony and every other games/technology company I have ever given details to have never contacted me regarding their services due to me having an account with them, nor have they ever shared my details. Clearly it isn't a bad thing that they have the information, and clearly it is only there for verification/identification, especially with the 3 examples he gave where you are buying things from them, so they need to cross check you and your bank details
5. I ever so slightly agree about the splash screens, but to be fair the vast majority allow you to skip them. He wouldn't complain about a film director having pre-credits, yet he does about this...
I think he has no common sense and is complaining just for the sake of it. The majority of "issues" he points out have always been there and are so minor it seems he has a personality disorder where every minor niggle ticks him off.
If a game is good, I could care less about splash screens, adverts and other crap, it is the actual playable content that I buy a game for and notice, and if the companies provide entertainment (what I generally buy a game for), they have if anything treated me for buying their games, even if it does say "there is DLC available" or if it has the publisher/dev logo's before the game starts
Once again if people didn't buy games that did this it wouldn't be a problem. I pretty much have given up on new age gaming. I am sticking to old titles/classics as anymore what you buy isn't worth what you get.
