VeryGooster
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Microsoft at E3: "The Xbox One has made an impact on social media like no other console has in history."
Xbox One: Details on Connectivity, Licensing (24 hour check-in) and Privacy Features
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legacyzero
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Which is mainly why I disapprove of it. I'm a nostalgia gamer. I like to revisit games later down the road. How can I do that if the servers are EA'd
Or make a product that sells itself and doesn't need PR talk to spin everything.
Not seeing how this pertains to my post. I understand your frustrated but people here are acting like it's the end of the world. Again, I understand the frustration. I bet it'll eventually affect me at some point but MS is going to be releasing games that I want to play. So will the PS4 and the WiiU. I'm not going to flip out and rage over the internet. Feel free to do so. I just think people need to chill out.
but as pointed out before the only way to make it like steam was DD only and people were not having that either but in the scheme of this, they probably should have just done that for christ's sake
would have been easier for people to understand and just not buy it and it would be different from Sony so disc people had a choice (As far as we know right now)
Should have done a Steam-box...
Would it be possible on the PS4? You need to remember that the PS4 has been confirmed to work offline whenever you want
This thread never got the attention it deserved. The ground it covers is more relevant now than ever:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=544911
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=544911
Whipped Spartan
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Don't try to reason with the hive mind.
Stone Ocean
Member
The fact that the entire company seems to consist of assholes like him doesn't really mean what he did was appropriate.
Extremely saddening.
I personally hope everyone in the xbox division gets the same reward. This shit is toxic.
SRTtoZ
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Ive read the Xbox banned forum a few times and yea its pretty intense.
Well, that's one way to spin it...
AgentP
Thinks mods influence posters politics. Promoted to QAnon Editor.
Jmanunknown
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That is the most awful thing about the system. Microsoft's answer to this would be you can still listen to music and watch blurays.
TheFeedingHand
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This thing probably won't sell much outside of the US.
If they're feeling generous maybe they'll patch it out.
But that's STILL hoping they're nice enough, AND requires you to get your system online in case they pull the patch itself. It's a rotten, short sighted scenario, but then this is from the publisher of games whose libraries usually aren't the ones you'll care to revisit in another decade or two anyway, and most of their titles that are like that are the fruits from acquisitions of some sort.
Randolph Freelander
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"This is the system everyone is talking about."
Well Microsoft sure do have a history of obsolescence so I wouldn't be shocked if this was the plan all along. I mean no one would buy Xbox Two unless The One didn't stop working right?
Of course and that is understandable. The reason for the excess uproar etc however considers both the direct and indirect consequences this may have. It's more about the precedent it sets, and how it may change the current market dynamics in regards to prices, ownership and such.
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thepotatoman
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Well, while we are on the topic of astroturfing, I figured I'd check out the top comments on another astroturfing hotbed in reddit.
Who the heck says something like that conclusion if you are not a marketing robot? Also the only negative he happened to include was the online requirement.
r/games top comment on the story said:
Who the heck says something like that conclusion if you are not a marketing robot? Also the only negative he happened to include was the online requirement.
Neuromancer
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'As we move into this new generation of games and entertainment, from time to time, Microsoft may change its policies, terms, products and services to reflect modifications and improvements to our services, feedback from customers and our business partners or changes in our business priorities and business models or for other reasons. We may also cease to offer certain services or products for similar reasons.'
Fucking ominous
Fucking ominous
WilyRook
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It's not even gonna take that long if you compare it to the original xbox live servers :x
badcrumble
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Microsoft E3 Conference |OT| ...THE ARISTOCRATS!
GreenTornadoX
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I was a PC gamer 10 years ago and it was like that.
Stone Ocean
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No, just the MS games division.
This is great.
DocTarHeel
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Here's the whole conversation
I hope I don't come off as a MS employee and get banned for this.
I think the point is that they didn't act on "we're listening." Even after specifically responding to concerns over online requirements and used game DRM.
shinra-bansho
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Again, cboat has confirmed that his outburst and the subsequent (GAF-initiated) furor caused Microsoft to alter their "always-online" policy to the current 24-hour one.
Anyone still planning to get the XBOne should probably be thanking him for his dumb twitter moment - and thanking GAF for getting MS to at least dial down their dumb DRM a little.
someone should make a thread!
There are people not objecting to it. That's quite different from defending it.
Shh! If your not mad you're a shill don't you know.
rohlfinator
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I bet each account can only be tied to one "family" also, so you can't join multiple game-sharing circles.
xaosslug
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also, I'm kinda thinking the TitanFall leak right before this nuke is kind of suspect...
The Blackrose
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Good lord, the way this is playing out... Between Microsoft's announcements (or failure thereof), WaPo's blowup of NSA datamining, and other certain factors, any hope I have for Microsoft this generation is done.
Sony has already made some good announcements (primarily the no-always on due to lacking infrastructure), but I want to see them follow through at E3. Otherwise I may have to throw in the towel. Depressing, really.
Back to that wine.
Sony has already made some good announcements (primarily the no-always on due to lacking infrastructure), but I want to see them follow through at E3. Otherwise I may have to throw in the towel. Depressing, really.
Back to that wine.
I can't believe someone is releasing a console on which you cannot play single player games offline.
Someone finally went and did it.
Crazy times we live in.
It's absolutely inexcusable. What if I lose my job, and we need to tighten things up, financially? One of the things we could cut is our internet bill each month. Now if we do this, our XB1 becomes useless as a game console.
Not so far fetched, we've been there before. Obviously I hope it's never an issue again, but seriously, it's one of many reasons I've lost internet access in the past. Power loss, moving, switching internet providers... any number of things have happened.
Fact is, no one should be allowed to tell me that I can't play the games I bought, ever. I've never bought a used game. I've never downloaded an illegal copy of any game, ever.
I buy every single piece of videogame software new, from retail. Never traded anything in. That's hundreds of games, that are all sitting on my shelves. All of which I bought because I support the hell out of this industry.
How anyone can sit here and say "Day one for Xbox!" at this point, is beyond my comprehension. I've got an Xbox and a 360, but they can take their new policy and fuck themselves, with all due respect.
Really hoping Sony doesn't pull a similar card, would be really disappointing.
Sigh.
Someone finally went and did it.
Crazy times we live in.
It's absolutely inexcusable. What if I lose my job, and we need to tighten things up, financially? One of the things we could cut is our internet bill each month. Now if we do this, our XB1 becomes useless as a game console.
Not so far fetched, we've been there before. Obviously I hope it's never an issue again, but seriously, it's one of many reasons I've lost internet access in the past. Power loss, moving, switching internet providers... any number of things have happened.
Fact is, no one should be allowed to tell me that I can't play the games I bought, ever. I've never bought a used game. I've never downloaded an illegal copy of any game, ever.
I buy every single piece of videogame software new, from retail. Never traded anything in. That's hundreds of games, that are all sitting on my shelves. All of which I bought because I support the hell out of this industry.
How anyone can sit here and say "Day one for Xbox!" at this point, is beyond my comprehension. I've got an Xbox and a 360, but they can take their new policy and fuck themselves, with all due respect.
Really hoping Sony doesn't pull a similar card, would be really disappointing.
Sigh.
Neuromancer
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There's no hive mind. Just people talking about some pretty heinous shit.
The Insane Dufresne
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No way in hell am I buying that piece of shit console......
Time to try PC gaming.......
Wonder what it contains...