1. First, yes, in rural areas, internet connection can be notoriously unstable, but you're looking at it from the wrong perspective. Microsoft's servers ALSO have to remain stable. There's not a person here who hasn't had issues with an online game, and the idea of having to go through those issues when playing single-player games is ludicrous, plain and simple.
2. The old business model has worked pretty damned well over the past 40 years. They only want to change it now because they want to squeeze some more money out of their customers. Hey, don't get me wrong. They, as a business, are free to be as greedy about it as they want. I, as a consumer, am also free to tell them to shove their shiny new console up their you-know-where. Shrugging it off as "corporations will be corporations" and continuing to buy whatever they put in front of you isn't healthy.
3. This isn't a question of how much money I as a consumer may or may not have. It's about "value." It's about getting less and paying more. A nickel here and a dime there may not seem like much, but it's been adding up here for a while now. Between micro-transactions, used game "taxes" and hugely overpaying for both the consoles and the games that come with them, and one has to start to question "value." And quite frankly, I don't see how Xbox One brings all that much value to the table. Maybe they'll prove me wrong, but this wasn't a good start.
Last edited by Nekosom; 2013-05-22 at 02:23 AM.
You have the right not to buy it, yes.
I know that sounds somewhat aggressive but I simply mean no one has any rights when it comes to being able to play how and when they want with a specific product, it's just a case of whether the product fills your needs or not. They're not morally wrong in any way to do anything they've done. Not to say there's anything wrong with saying it's a stupid or annoying move though.
That is one sexy piece of circuits and fibers. Will I get it? YES!!!
I agree. We threaten to hang EA for suggesting additional payments for games already bought. Why should we let Microsoft off the hook with this behaviour?
The sad fact is that this will likely push sales in favour of the PS4. Not because it blows the Xbox out of the water performance wise or for the features it offers, but simply because they don't demand a log in a day to play their games nor are charging additional fees to borrow a friends game.
Why though. That's the driving question. Why. If there is going to be an artificial limitation that wasn't there to begin with, there needs to be a compelling reason for it to exist. It needs to provide enough of a benefit to the consumer of offset the negative impact it has. If the benefit doesn't outweigh the negative, then why have it at all?
I've still yet to see a compelling reason for DRM and how it benefits consumers.
Actually yes, there are a lot of stuff to do at the beach, but we all like playing casual games drunk after the party is over or before the party.
Yeah, the need of bringing my router from home, where more people live on it... nope, not going to happen, it's dumb, utterly dumb why should I have to bring my router or any kind of connection attached JUST TO PLAY ON MY CONSOLE... what happens if XBL crashes or works like shit? (YEAH EA IM LOOKING AT YOU AND YOUR LITTLE SIMS) can't play till they fix their stuff? what happens if the internet is choppy? well gl for you because OUR NEW HARDWARE REQUIRES INTARNATZ.
well actually yeah, even ouija or ouja or whatever is looking fairly good, not that it has good titles or anything else, but nintendo/sony and the ouja backing company (idk who it is, google?) have been pretty silent around all of this.
Microsoft is doing publicing for the other consoles !
The Xbox 1 looks like a Wii that fell over. They wasted an hour talking about TV, sports and Call of Duty. Even after the reveal, when Geoff interviewed Mattrick, Mattrick seemed like such a smug dumbass. "It has to be online to play multiplayer and stream, that's the world we live in." Of course it has to be online for that! That was just his weaselly way of answering "no used games".