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"EXTRA GAD - Online Console Wars"

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Wed 27/10/04 at 23:33
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"Must lose weight"
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This is quite a serious Extra Gameaday Competition

The challenge is to write an interesting piece about online gaming as:
XBOX Live Experience - Pro's and Cons
or
PS2 Networking Experience - Pro's and Cons
or
PS2 Networking vs XBOX Live - Comparison

The winner will be the best entry (in the opinion of the judges) submitted before midnight on Sunday November 14th.

Your entry will be judged on the basis of concise, readable, well written information. i.e. it must be written like a review. Try to include your experiences from initial interest and sign up through to full use.

All entries, whether they are the winner or not, may be used elsewhere on our site. The best entries will probably appear on a subsection of the UKconsoles site.

DO NOT COPY ANY WORK. These must be original.

I recommend that you save your work into a word processing document before entering it in case you want to work on it later.

Good Luck Chaps and Chapesses
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Sun 14/11/04 at 22:16
Regular
"aka memo aaka gayby"
Posts: 11,948
Crumble wrote:
> I'm a generally sad person, you see.

And you missed the deadline ahahahaha.
Mon 15/11/04 at 09:43
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Posts: 14,437
I'd assume the deadline was the midnight just gone, allowing entries on the Sunday to be included.

But I don't work at SR, and didn't enter anyway, therefore I don't really care
Mon 15/11/04 at 10:29
Regular
"serenity now!"
Posts: 527
I think we should try and make it 11:59 when we announce the deadline, just to try and stop the confusion. The deadline was the midnight just gone, even though that's more Monday than Sunday. But anyway...

Crumble's entry is the winner!

Not a whole load of entries, though I think Crumble's would have been hard to beat even if there were a lot more. Very deserving of an EGAD.

Thanks to everyone who entered, we'll decide what to do with the entries over the next few days.
Mon 15/11/04 at 10:33
Regular
"END OF AN ERA"
Posts: 6,015
How are we supposed to beat him if he has both...
Mon 15/11/04 at 13:21
Regular
"Picking a winner!"
Posts: 8,502
Crumble wrote:
Before you can do anything you must have access to BT
> Broadband. PS2 Network Play will not work with Dial-up connection or
> any other Broadband supplier; only BT.

Eh? PS2 Online will work with any broadband provider, not just BT.


Congrats on the win though.
Mon 15/11/04 at 14:40
Regular
Posts: 4,279
He won with incorrect facts.

Oh.My.God......

Well, at least he wrote something unlike moi :P
Mon 15/11/04 at 15:21
Staff Moderator
"Must lose weight"
Posts: 5,778
Crumble

Clearly Xbox Live and PS2 Networking will work with Freeola Broadband, which is provided across the BT network. But what makes you think it will not work on non BT providers such as the cable networks?

Congratulations on the your winning entry, which I am just about to read if my phone stops ringing for long enough *_*

Look out for a condensed version in the next mag.
Mon 15/11/04 at 15:21
Regular
"Fishing For Reddies"
Posts: 4,986
Yeah. Well Done, buddy.

As long as it sounds good, you can write/speak as much balls as you want. Look at the last Presidential Election campaigns.

A most deserving win.
Mon 15/11/04 at 15:33
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"Must lose weight"
Posts: 5,778
One of the most infuriating aspects of the Xbox is the need for a credit card.

You would think that after buying the Xbox Live Pack, which includes a full year's subscription, that they would not insist on you entering credit card details online.

I can tell you, it goes against the grain to enter credit card details into a console, and it also does not sit too well with me to give them to Microsoft.

I phoned up Microsoft and told them that I did not want to give my card details online and they said "tough". So I asked them if I could have my money back and they said "not if you have revealed the secret user code". Of course you have to enter this before you are told anything about needing to enter credit card details. So I told them I had looked all over everything and they said "there is some very small print about it on the front of the box - so, tough - hee hee gloat".
Mon 15/11/04 at 15:36
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Posts: 11,038
I don't care what the TV tells me, old people are not funny.
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