Gaming Target examines the new pricing tiers that Time Warner Cable plans to roll out for their cable internet service in the Fall and how it will effect gamers.
From the article:
"All of those plans have just become the victim of a headshot thanks to Time Warner Cable's announcement (on April 1st no less) that they will be imposing bandwidth caps on customers of their Road Runner cable internet service. This cap was first tested last year in Beaumont, Texas and in September will roll out in Rochester (NY), Greensboro (NC), San Antonio and Austin (TX). While the purpose of the cap was no doubt to pad Time Warner's coffers, an unintended consequence of the new service will be a strain on the wallets and playtime of gamers."
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While on stage with Dina Bass at The Bloomberg Technology Summit the President of Xbox, Sarah Bond, was asked about the Xbox studio closures of Arkane Austin, Tango Gameworks, Alpha Dog, and Roundhouse Studios
Of course she did. She's part of the problem and will just tow the company line.
Bloomberg’s Dina Bass could barely read her scripted question without looking at her notes, whilst Sarah Bond who WAS expecting the question spoke without saying anything of substance or answering the question in any meaningful way. Clearly she’s had the same expert PR training as Phil, but this avoidance was disrespectful. In time the short-sighted decision to shut down Tango Gameworks will be seen as of the most notorious examples why Phil Spencer messed up his tenure in charge of Xbox. That’s a fully built out talented team that could’ve been put to work on any project.
Additionally, Phil Spencer should not be using Sarah Bond as a patsy for his mistakes- he should be answering that question.
I think you are all really overselling Tangos value. Hi-Fi rush was a lot of fun. Ghostwire was incredibly dull. Evil within 1 and 2 were just okay.
Evil within 2 was incredibly under rated. I thought that game was surprisingly good
Someone else said it best. I don't think it was a Phil decision. It was most likely a Satya decision. I think Microsoft is done giving out free money to Xbox.
She's playing her role. There's absolutely nothing any of them can say other than the truth, this is about profit margins and not quality, so they just don't answer anything and wait for gamers to forget.
I always wondered why xbox had multiple leaders with similar titles like Phil Spencer, Matt Booty, and Sarah Bond, like, how many heads do you actually need?
Seems to me it would be more cost efficient to cut 2 of them instead of all those studios.
Frankly, I suspect she is the most competent of them. I don't mean that I like her more, I mean that she's the best at articulating herself and giving the talking points MS wants to give. The others are starting to sound more like her than her sounding like any of them.
Are any of these people "responsible" for what's happening? No. This reeks of Nadella. But that being said, I don't see any of the Xbox heads stepping down in protest.
"Don't shoot the messenger", sure, but at the same time, the messengers don't seem to take umbrage with the message. Not enough to remove themselves from it, anyway.
Dude, 100%, forgot Major Nelson and Aaron Greenberg, like what is the point for all these suits? They have more C-level executives than games released in a generation.
This is just so they can all pass along the hot potato one at a time and in between all of them can say a lot without actually saying anything, misinformation at its finest.
More people need to know about this. ISPs are ripping is off
further....
Is it me or are phone, cable and internet service providers the biggest rip off companies that instead of improving their service continually try to reduce it while charging more?
Conveniently all three services are usually rolled into one giant rip off company. Wish there was a way to sue the sh!t of them for this virtual monopoly they have on each region.
This has been all over the news and people are pissed...People have been writing on local news blogs, I have joined a facebook group fighting this. I have also already written a polite but direct letter to a few different customer service higher ups at Time Warner Cable. There is also a protest At Time Warners main office in Rochester NY on April 18th.
As the writer of this article stated, Verizon FIOS is in none of the cites that this experiment is taking place in....AKA where there is no competition. The next best thing I have to choose from is Frontier DSL...which sucks.
What about Hughes NET internet via dish? Would those speeds be up to par for all my gaming/downloading needs?
Time Warner may see a bump in $ when they first roll this out but we as customers need to kick them in the balls by dropping their service. We need to make them loose a good deal of their 8 million customers and quikly. The almighty dollar always speks loudest to these greedy bastards.
All this will do as I pointed out to them in my letters of concern is hurt other online businesses and handcuff innovation.
Burn Time Warner!!!!
time warner and comcast are the uprising of the left over pieces of the nazi regime after WW2.