The email makes no sense
1) we are to believe there are people working on Durango that don't know if it is always online or not
2) the author of the email, the one who knows that durango is not always online, sends a NDA sensitive email about Durango to a group of people not on the durang project.
I'm sorry, but like all the pro xbox720 rumors concerning always online, this does not pass the sniff test.
I don't truely believe durango will be always online, but I honestly believe all these "leaks" and "rumors" saying Durango is not always online are all hoaxes from fanboys that are biutthurt from the initial Edge rumor.
Always online - low power mode, 24/7 download/patches/whatever
Online required - Console will not work at all without internet connection
The email makes no sense
1) we are to believe there are people working on Durango that don't know if it is always online or not
2) the author of the email, the one who knows that durango is not always online, sends a NDA sensitive email about Durango to a group of people not on the durang project.
I'm sorry, but like all the pro xbox720 rumors concerning always online, this does not pass the sniff test.
I don't truely believe durango will be always online, but I honestly believe all these "leaks" and "rumors" saying Durango is not always online are all hoaxes from fanboys that are butthurt from the initial Edge rumor.
Where?It's great to have come up with distinctions yourself but why hasn't Microsoft come clean already. They have released so much info about the unit already why not this? Could they actually be less capable of communicating their intentions than you are?
I honestly believe all these "leaks" and "rumors" saying Durango is not always online are all hoaxes from fanboys that are biutthurt from the initial Edge rumor.
One less thing for the SDF lot to bleet on about
Consumers won as one comment on ARS eloquently states.
Consumers won as one comment on ARS eloquently states.
Exactly. Them continuing with the status quo isn't worth praising.
It's great to have come up with distinctions yourself but why hasn't Microsoft come clean already. They have released so much info about the unit already why not this? Could they actually be less capable of communicating their intentions than you are?
The info in the OP did.
It's great to have come up with distinctions yourself but why hasn't Microsoft come clean already. They have released so much info about the unit already why not this? Could they actually be less capable of communicating their intentions than you are?
Good.
No surprise from me.
I never believed that "always online" nonsense.
That could be right, and would explain why there was so many rumors about it leading up til now.Consumers won as one comment on ARS eloquently states.Of course, the existence of such a mass e-mail implies that this is a recent change in policy. My work never sends an e-mail to everyone to say, "Just FYI, the policy we've had this whole time is still the policy. Keep doing what you've been doing."
Consumers won as one comment on ARS eloquently states.
According to an internal MS email, huh? Sounds almost as definite and official as the thread title, yep.
In case you didn't get the hint though, the reason why this email would be sent and that many working on Durango would not know of it's policies are because they were changed, possibly in light of the Adam Orth fallout.
Well, what are we gonna complain about now?
It's great to have come up with distinctions yourself but why hasn't Microsoft come clean already. They have released so much info about the unit already why not this? Could they actually be less capable of communicating their intentions than you are?
The email makes no sense
1) we are to believe there are people working on Durango that don't know if it is always online or not
like what?It's great to have come up with distinctions yourself but why hasn't Microsoft come clean already. They have released so much info about the unit already why not this? Could they actually be less capable of communicating their intentions than you are?
Well, what are we gonna complain about now?
There are a number of scenarios that our users expect to work without an Internet connection, and those should 'just work' regardless of their current connection status.
If that was the case, why didn't MS squash the rumors when they first appeared? It doesn't make any sense to allow months of negative publicity to continue if it wasn't true.
Kinect and Xbox Live.
If that was the case, why didn't MS squash the rumors when they first appeared? It doesn't make any sense to allow months of negative publicity to continue if it wasn't true.
If that was the case, why didn't MS squash the rumors when they first appeared? It doesn't make any sense to allow months of negative publicity to continue if it wasn't true.
His comment means absolutely nothing. If there weren't unfounded rumors, there would be no need for an internal memo. The memo in absolutely no way confirms that a change in policy has occurred.
And now Kotaku and Edge can claim, "Hey our reporting was accurate. They must have changed things. Aren't we great?!"
If that was the case, why didn't MS squash the rumors when they first appeared? It doesn't make any sense to allow months of negative publicity to continue if it wasn't true.
Yeah they called in durango in the leaked XDK from VGleaks.If this email is real, then Durango is the confirmed codename of the project.
Has durango ever been confirmed? I thought it was still a rumored codename.
It's great to have come up with distinctions yourself but why hasn't Microsoft come clean already. They have released so much info about the unit already why not this? Could they actually be less capable of communicating their intentions than you are?
This rumor confirms "always online" was the original policy. Now the rumor is that they have changed their minds on it.
Great news.
One thing I did notice, however, was absolutely no mention of allowing used games.