How are they going to do that with their push for mandatory crossplay where on PC you can use pretty much whatever you like?
How? 99.9% of people use licensed controllers. Glad they’re doing it. Helps combat the cheating.Wow terrible
Most of the time the user doesn't even know if a third party controller is licenced or unlicensed. An 8bitdo controller for example, licenced or unlicensed?
You gave a composite TV analogy to show how ok it was because it's 'old'.
People really are trying to push this as some kind of anticheat solution when it's not. How are they going to prevent cheating in online games when all the games they push have mandatory crossplay with PC where you can use automated input to your hearts content? How are they going to do it when often they support wired unlicensed stuff like mouse and keyboard peripherals which can have automated input? This isn't going to make your online games better. It's because they want to push hardware revenue up.
That's a wired controller buddy. Read the damn title of the thread . Now look at this:
So if some phone update stopped you from using your micro usb to USB C adaptor that would be ok because we've moved on? Ok. If it stopped you from using previously working chargers because your phone manufacturer decided it doesn't want it to work anymore unless they get paid by the charger company that would be OK? Your analogies don't work.
This isn't about legacy devices. This is about owning something new. Even people with new, possibly $300 or more steering wheels or arcade sticks no longer able to use them.
If this is true I have no problem with it.
Didn't Sony even block DS4 for PS5 games?
Licensed.
Arcade Stick for Xbox | 8BitDo
The very first Xbox-licensed wireless arcade stick. Available worldwide.www.8bitdo.com
It took me all but 5 seconds to look it up, you're trying really hard here. Relax.
Okay Mr Lawyer. That doesn't change the fact official licensing has, up to this point (read: over 20 years), been that licensed means officially supported, not that unlicensed means intentionally blocked. They can freely make that decision yes and people can also freely leave their platform because of it. After all, Microsoft "knows the risks" of blocking stuff. Apparently this is more important than keeping the consumers who care. If they are fine saying "good riddance" then we are perfectly fine to say "fuck you" right back to them. But go on and keep sucking Phil's dick.
That's not what I said and I didn't make it a big deal. I simply said:
My arcade stick came out in 2012 and was not operable on Xbox One which came out one year later. This was tolerable because they allowed an adapter since the only "support" needed was to update the xinput encoding just like on PC. They don't need to "support" anything themselves when plenty of companies are happy to do it for them. Now after that adapter has worked for 10 years they are blocking it. They are also blocking anything that anyone using any such thing from any time that they may have bought it. Maybe they wanted to play racing sims with a nice wheel setup on their PC and also Xbox, now it will only work on PC. Same for anyone who doesn't want to drop another $300-500 and fill up a second large space in their house just to be able to play Gran Turismo 7 and also Forza like that. Same for someone in this thread who just got a hall effect stick controller because they got tired of stick drift happening on all the controllers. You are intentionally looking away from the actual living reality of the people this is affecting and how stupid it is of Microsoft. "Not supporting" is a completely different thing from blocking.
No. I'm saying that if they want to make their priority something other than my playing the games I'm interested in on their platform as it had traditionally been done for 20 years, okay I won't play on their platform. It isn't my job to make excuses for them when they fuck me over telling me I have to shell out hundreds more for an inferior licensed product to get around a blockade that they put up.
Yes we do. They put up official policy pages explaining that they will be blocking these things. They already made their decision, wrote it out, programmed it into the OS, and scheduled the time. You are the one in denial acting like it's just a big accident until they quadruple down in an official PR statement in response to complaints that arise. They already did this with proprietary encoding for headsets (which are otherwise universal for every other platform), so why would I think they aren't serious when they show this for controllers?
I think it's the other way around. You can't use Dual Sense on the PS4.
Look I get it, you're stanning for the company and trying to make it seem like people bought some old knockoff stuff and should have known. It's not going to be so funny when the OS update comes out of insider preview in November though and people who use hardware like this in 2023 get shafted by MS unless MS do something to change that. If you think they don't exist have a look:
MAYFLASH Magic-S PRO 2 Wireless Bluetooth USB Adapter for PS4, Switch, macOS, Windows, Raspberry Pi, Compatible with Xbox Series X & S Controller, Xbox One Bluetooth, PS5 Controller and More: Amazon.de: Games
MAYFLASH Magic-S PRO 2 Wireless Bluetooth USB Adapter for PS4, Switch, macOS, Windows, Raspberry Pi, Compatible with Xbox Series X & S Controller, Xbox One Bluetooth, PS5 Controller and More: Amazon.de: Gameswww.amazon.de
dude this shit is way cheaper!
i got two of em so i can keep using my 2 madcatz SF TE1's
still the best looking fight stick imo
Smol flex
If they broke on their own is one thing, if you go out of your way to detect them and kill them is another thing, but you already know that, don’t you?
The irony is that most of the people stanning here are usually taking shots at Sony for the safety angle
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99% sure they blocked DS4 on PS5 for PS5 games to sell more Dual Sense controllers.
Correction. Microsoft is pretending to be pro-consumer at present. Once Xbox is in a position of strength (or once they’ve decided they need to turn the screw on the current user base) then the mask will come off again.
