You take it to a place with a free hotspot/to the Apple store/to work and download there.
Also, your phone still works (plays games, music, media, apps) if you have no connectivity. So phones aren't comparable to the next Xbox at all.
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Microsoft Studios' creative director has some choice words about always-online
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You take it to a place with a free hotspot/to the Apple store/to work and download there.
Also, your phone still works (plays games, music, media, apps) if you have no connectivity. So phones aren't comparable to the next Xbox at all.
dragonelite
Member
Cyborg
Member
Go home man.......!
grimshawish
Banned
Durango won't be BC either.
Psychoward
Banned
Beautiful.
No BC is at least somewhat understandable. This is not.
ThisWreckage
Banned
I will say this much. Microsoft has lost a lot of talent from the original Xbox and 360 days. People that were games centric type thinkers. I think they want to position this thing as a smart phone in your living room. They're trying to directly compete with Apple more so than Sony or Nintendo. I refuse to believe that they're going to go through with this until it actually comes out of their mouths. This is something that could definitely be added or removed at the last minute. This is a company that has definitely shown that it will tolerate anti-consumer practices in the past, however. I still think that they have a major third party backing them to try to push gamers on the whole, "This can't be too bad because we have XXXX in our corner."
Voice of Reason
Banned
Sure, but I doubt the next big thing will be out with the console's release. Halo 5, Gears and FIFA are not games one can use to overlook serious flaws like a console always being online.
I think BC and always online is a little different.
Thing is, despite their claims to the contrary, I can see Sony forming an industry-wide cabal and going online-only too, if Microsoft goes first.
After all, the publishers want it, and they're deep in their pockets.
I agree but almost all, if not everyone play used games. Also, there is people i know who have a xbox and do not have internet access. Like in the military, especially aboard naval ships. Lol
Maybe there is a linking system to the gamertag or a code so that it can be played system to system? Wouldn't make sense to tie it to a single console. I think it will still be used games, just tethered to a code perhaps.
Their 1 billion userbase certainly won't come from pandering to core gamers on GAF, let's be honest.
It was never confirmed he worked with it.
But since he knew exactly about it, and was legally forced to stay put, even though he gave the hint, is a clear indicator that his studio got a dev kit.
Besides they just announced they're developing for the PS4 and the Job listings are usually multiplattform, which also indicates that his studio got their hands on thoose dev kits and now what's up.
http://www.evilavatar.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2200505&postcount=46
This was his posting.
And we found out who he was, since we didn't know who was behind Mr.Lake at first.
toddhunter
Member
No BC is because Sony fucked up in the past. Online only is MS fucking up the future.
Yes I know it is inevitable
I laughed, how can you compare those two things..
Yikes. Dark times if that happened.
I personally don't beleive these rumours of always online. I think always online will have huge benefits wit auto updates and social aspects similar to PS4 but won't be mandatory. Even MS is not that stupid to implement this. This would affect even the mass market who play COD and FIFA, yes those games are played online a lot, but I know tons of people who play these games offline. For example at Univetsity halls people play couch multiplayer and can't even connect to Internet with their consoles to to University halls blocking connection to game consoles.
TerryWogan
Member
My 6 year Xbox Live Gold sub won't be renewed and I'll be buying a PS4 at launch if this happens. Keep your Xbox 720 and "deal with it", Microsoft.
Keeping my achievements isn't that important to me.
Keeping my achievements isn't that important to me.
Also you can work perfectly fine with an iPad or iPhone if you have spotty internet or no internet for a few days, but have a brick next to your tv if your NG Xbox doesn't. For no good reason except, and mark my words this is the bullshit reason: "Online is so tightly woven into the NG Xbox that all those great features we have can't work without. For more than the arbitrary 3 minutes that is."
DragonSworne
Banned
I find it ironic that a console codenamed Durango, which happens to also be the name of a rural city in Colordo, requires an always online connect.
Impeccable
Member
I have a feeling as the day goes on there may be a few "GlassBox" situations arising.
Cod on wii u? Lol c'mon son.Because FIFA, COD and Mario worked so well for Nintendo this time, right?
Yep. You can bet Sony wants to do it too. They just want an excuse. This could be it.
I'm sure they'd love a big fun oligopoly.
Midnight Phoenix
Member
I think it will be useless, because you can RIP it. Always-online gives MS more control over user. That will be funny, if they will ban game disks.
Cha
Member
dragonelite
Member
Pc gaming should improve a shitload next gen.
Because the next gen consoles are just castrated gaming rigs.
This Adam Orth character is hardly at the level of the legendary Ken Kutaragi though. He's just a "creative director" in one of Microsoft's studios.
WOW
The internet is really exploding.
Try to google search xbox next, Durango or 720. Be sure to search the past hour.
It's all over the world with Every languege I can find. English,Dutch,Spanish,Arabic,Norwegian,Chinese ,Deutsch.
Amazing how this spread so quickly. We will se if a positive news will be spread as fast as a negative one.
The internet is really exploding.
Try to google search xbox next, Durango or 720. Be sure to search the past hour.
It's all over the world with Every languege I can find. English,Dutch,Spanish,Arabic,Norwegian,Chinese ,Deutsch.
Amazing how this spread so quickly. We will se if a positive news will be spread as fast as a negative one.
DragonSworne
Banned
From 2 years ago once they release.
Comment unrelated to this Adam guy and his actions as I don't know him at all and don't think you can interpolate what type of guy he is from those tweets... but personally I think that's one of the best reasons to fire someone. If you can't exhibit a modicum of social skills in an office, then get the fuck out.
No BC is pro consumer? News to me.
The Living Tribunal
Member
I wonder what he's doing right now.
Twilight Gap
Member
lol this
For those of you just joining us, the story so far.
glorious.
wont be long before everything is digital downloads.
digoutyoursoul
Member
Reading your post
Come on. You can't spin this.
Probably trying to get offline, ironically.
Voice of Reason
Banned
One is an extra addition that doesn't affect how the console functions, the other is DRM that affects the console's basic function: play games.
If you can't distinguish the degree of difference in those two, I don't know what to tell you.
There was the poster Penguins&PolarBears who was single handedly defending always online earlier in this thread. Looking at his posts here and in other threads, he seems affilated with MS, more than just being a rabid fanboy. To the point many though he was Adam Orth himself.
StealthGoblin
Banned
Its different. No BC is the absence of something, something that yes you may want but wasn't possible given the design goals.
A mandatory always online connection to play games had to have been designed to attack something or restrict.
Kun Aguero
Member
"Sweet billy" has done a great PR job for Sony. MS damage control units, now at Defcon 1.