"Calling Xbox Live a hack-free environment is a joke." - Daniel Bischoff
Online multiplayer is back for 11 more games thanks to Insignia's XBL 1.0 replacement service running on Original Xbox consoles and the Xemu emulator on PC. Multiplayer, voice chat, leaderboards, etc. have been a monthly addition for many games from Xbox's past library thank to the team at Insignia.live! The 11 new games are now playable online once again after 13+ years.
Booo!! I was hoping that was Rainbow Six: Black Arrow...Boo!! again. I thought this coming to Xbox. I don't even read it I was so excited.
Has everyone completely forgotten Blinx?
Microsoft never could maintain a longrunning decent 3D platformers series of their own
Not sure if it was Xbox only back in the day but I'd love a current gen jet set radio!
Without a doubt, one of our highlights from EGX Rezzed 2016 was Table Top Racing. It was almost a classic love tale…”As soon as we locked eyes… (enter mushy crap here…)” – We think you get the picture. It just reminded us of a time where gaming was much less complicated and way more colourful, however at the time the game was only due to be released on the PS4… That’s not a bad thing. It just mean’t that being my primary console of choice is Xbox One, we wouldn’t get to play this any time soon as the majority of my games and friends reside in the Microsoft ecosystem – so when we got word this was getting a release on Xbox One, we immediately put our hands up and said “Yes, Please!”.
There's no such thing as a "hack free environment"
This is a poor article/rant...
coming from the chief operating officer really represents where MS is heading in terms of Live and its security features...
i feel like the main reason they are so closed off with their online capabilities is because they fear someone will be able to get online without having to pay a subscription...and the moment a hacker does that...pandora's box will open because that would open up a lot of opportunities for hackers if they had the time to take advantage of the system before MS would shut down the network like Sony if it ever happened
Clearly the person who wrote the article is some butt-hurt fanboy. What i got from Microsoft is that SO FAR its been hack free. It wasn't a definitive statement claiming that they have always been and always will be "hack free". Not to mention the article is very poorly written. Like the kind of things you expect to read here at N4G's comment section. smh
A Sony fanboy obviously wrote this article. Looking past the sad fanboy veneer, I think MS responded professionally and in a non-critical manner. There is no question once so ever that XBL has better security (MS specializes in software/technology applications). What happened to Sony is very bad for the industry, as he said. Part of the problems are sites like N4G post article after article glorifying/giving publicity to the idiots responsible. XBL's history speaks for it's self: whats the longest it's ever been down? Is it hack-free? No, but its a damn site more secure than the PSN. At 60/year--it better be.
Whats equally bad for the industry is how a news item like this is taken and shaped into another fanboy item like this idiot author does. I'm also sure, like in true N4G fashion, this thread will turn into a "XBL vs PSN" crap shoot. The joy of gaming and sharing the culture is tainted by fanboy idiots.
The outage was bad for ALL gamers. It goes under the category of piracy, general theft. Regardless of what Network we choose to do our blasting and smashing--we all want a common thing: security.