MS was leading people on so they would buy the system. Those people would have eventually been disappointed, but by then it would have been too late. It's my belief that once MS did their 180 they saw an opportunity to scrap the family sharing plan they were trying to lure buyers in with, thereby avoiding the inevitable disappointment that would have come once the real limits of the plan were realized. By scapegoating complaining gamers and the reversal of their DRM policies, MS was able ...
And once again the tidbit about family sharing is lost amidst the larger story.
The Guardian: You may disagree on how much of the Xbox One proposition has changed since Don Mattrick issued that statement and reversed some of the digital concepts …
Phil Spencer: Which concepts did he reverse?
TG: Well, the idea of daily online authentication, the control and restriction of pre-owned game sales …
PS: Okay, so those two specific...
@Nukeitall
I'll take my games as the console matures, rather than get a bunch of launch window titles and having the stream dry up later. Just look at The Last of Us.
I'll see your features which are free elsewhere but hidden behind a pay-wall on Xbox and raise you an actual game from plus for every one of those features.
It's either worth playing or it's not worth playing. For the record, you're a troll and wrong about it not being worth playing. Back on point, people aren't going to keep playing crap just because more crap gets released for free. You already know that though. You are just so desperate to insist that MS pee hitting your face is rain that you'll even try to spin free dlc into a negative.
Apologists crack me up. Someone could break into your home Monday through Thursday, and on Friday you'd be singing their praises because they finally stopped doing it.
Come on, son. You can troll better than that.
It would be perfect in a game like Madden, or a Yu-Gi-Oh type game where you may be playing multi-player locally and want to hide things from the competition.
"Lolz.. Anyway, bored of you all now....moving on....."
Translation: I ran through the two bubbles I've been reduced to from trolling.
I suspect places like Amazon will continue to sell them cheaper than the MSRP.
"With the sales not updating properly, developers that should be making this list are not, and thus their sales are remaining lower than they normally would be. This is leading to some developers holding off releasing their game until the issue is resolved."
Or perhaps it's MS's history of spin, e.g., Aaron Greenberg's prevarication in response to the rumors of a delay, made hours before MS confirmed a delay:
"Ha, don't believe everything you read! We will share more details at Gamescom."
"Why do I have a feeling that this thread will be overrun with Sony fans stating MS is lying and yield issue already confirmed by CBOAT and etc."
Because deep down, this excuse is setting off your b.s. detector as well?
Did a M$ fanboy really just try to lecture me on being a smart consumer?
Psst! You aren't the one smart kid in the class that sees what no one else does. No one is championing GameStop. Hell, I don't even buy or trade used games at GameStop. It sure is nice to own my game, though. It sure is nice knowing that I have a product I can own independent of whether MS shuts down its servers, MS bans my account for whatever reason, etc.. It sure is nice knowing that I can st...
"Sony Fanboys piled on Xbox One claiming it's not a gaming system because of it's focus on entertainment outside of gaming, well looks like Sony is trying to do the same thing but when Sony does it it's all good. SMH lol."
Keyword: focus. Xbone used it's reveal conference to focus on entertainment outside of gaming. Remind me, at what conference was this Viacom deal announced?
"Not only that, every damn new feature Sony is impl...
Let me simplify it for the trolls feigning ignorance:
You have to make the cupcake before you can put the cherry on top.
Sony made a pretty tasty cupcake, then topped it off with a sweet cherry. MS came out with a cherry, and is still struggling to get their cupcake together (Connect 24 hours or no connection required? Restrict used games or allow them like before? Region lock or no region lock? Shun indies or embrace them? Just use Kinect or include a heads...
@No_Limit
"Like beating a dead horse, it was already known weeks in advance that the XB1 reveal will be split up in 2 part. The first reveal is about its feature and media function and E3 is all about Games."
If I told you beforehand that I was going to let my dog take a crap on your lawn and not clean it up, would that make it okay when I followed through? Just because they said as much beforehand really doesn't amount to a hill of beans. It...
Exactly. There's a key distinction between targeting the reveal of your console toward people interested in TV features, and adding TV features after selling gamers on the system.
A lot of the supposed "hypocrisy" comments are nothing but immature and a willful attempt to oversimplify the objections to the Xbone. Why would we argue over an added feature, SO LONG AS IT'S NOT GETTING IN THE WAY OF GAMING? It's there, and I'll either use it or not. Ha...
GTFOH man. How about this? He wasn't banned. That's what should have happened. Nothing less. You threaten to rape someone, then a ban should be the least of your worries.
@RytGear
For a couple of weeks it sucks, but at least you get the better Plus.