I'd like to bitch about how complicated console gaming is these days.

In the old days of the original Playstation/Xbox, you could just put a disc in and play the game.

Recently I bought, at the request of my son, "Plants Vs Zombies Garden Warfare" for the Xbox360. Reasonably priced at £20 I thought - but when it arrives I noticed a note on the box saying a separate Xbox live gold subscription is required to play.

Anyway, it took a frustrating number of hours before I could actually get this game up and running for him - hours spent doing updates, creating an xbox live account, amending account age to avoid having to also create a parent account, verifying email address, adding a secondary email address, verifying secondary email address, searching internet to find a free trial gold membership, arguing with the game when it said he was not logged in when he was, downloading game updates several times because it wouldn't seem to recognise that it has already been updated, creating an EA account, and so on...