Archive for September, 2007
Halo 3 Launch at the Taipei Main Station
With the pre-launch marketing I posted about the other day, I noticed this yesterday right outside Taipei Main Station (named so because this stop is where all forms of transportation intersect in Taipei):
Yep. Only a multi-billion dollar company like Microsoft with unlimited amounts of cash can launch a game everywhere across the world all at the same time.
The stage shown above just repeated the Halo 3 trailer over and over. Nothing live or I might have missed it.
I was really disappointed with the swag. There wasn’t anything free. Once you buy a copy of the game, then you get a crappy bag with one of those imprinted pictures that look like it will fade in 3 washes.
And now for more pictures of the Taipei launch:
And yes, the main station always has horrible traffic as you see in the pictures above.
Preparing for Halo 3
There’s been lots of publicity in how much marketing money Microsoft is pumping into Halo 3. With the game being only 3 days away, the mothership is doing everything to make you buy this game. This is even apparent with all the marketing blitz here in Taiwan. I can only imagine what the marketing is like back in the states.
Here are some picture of Microsoft’s hard earned money at work here in Taiwan’s Taipei Main Station underground shopping mall when I was walking through there earlier today.
The Failure of WGA and Vista, Part 2
Posted by eric in Miscellaneous on September 4th, 2007
Well, as luck would have it, the failed WGA check happened to me again today. My expensive heavy laptop just became yet another paper weight. I’m typing this on my 1 hour limited desktop session while I move all my files over to my external hard drive to back up.
I’m tired of this crap coming from Microsoft. This is how they treat us paying customers while all those who download the illegal copies of Vista can use their computers fine.. I have FREAKIN 4 COPIES OF YOUR STUPID VISTA OS (actually, 5 counting this Asus laptop which came with Vista) for Christ sake! Well enough is enough. One can only take so much. This is going to be the end of Vista for me. Once I backup all my files, I’m going to complete wipe my machine and reinstall XP for gaming purposes. I’m going to make Ubuntu my main system now. If I’m forced to use it, I’m confident that I’ll learn how to use it in no time. I might even consider looking at a Mac laptop in the future! *shudder*
Microsoft, I’ve been a big fanboy of your products since I started taking interest in computers back during the DOS 6.2 days. Ask anyone who knew me when I was younger, they would tell you how I would religiously promote your products. Heck I even made a career out of your technology. But your latest blunders have really made me reconsider my past decisions and this WGA crap has really let me down. As if it matters, but you just lost a faithful customer along with everyone who I have contact with. I will never recommend your products again.