Who Would Want to Buy Anything From These Pricks??

(youtube) Xbox One AJ interview w/ Major Nelson.
Draxsays...

Saw the full interview the other day. "What are you talking about? The Xbox One is GREAT! Restrictions?? Noooo.. these are *features*.".

Literally what it amounted to.

entr0pysays...

Because the Xbox 360 deal was pretty tolerable for it's time. Except for their ridiculous $50 annual fee to play peer-to-peer games online. . . Oh wait, Sony's doing that too now. Sony's just lucky that their dick move was completely overshadowed by Microsoft's incomparable dickery.

articiansaid:

As I've been saying since the first Xbox: This is Microsoft. Why did people embrace them in the first place? Track-record means nothing to consumers...

dooglesays...

Holy f* this guy needs to learn something about concision.

GET TO THE F*N POINT. And maybe you'd get to your questions before your subject has time to finish their essay and move on to something else.

JustSayingsays...

If we, the people, were smart, we'd stop crap like the new XBox by simply not buying it. Unfortunately we're happy to bend over and spread our cheeks for the privilege to pay to be allowed to play the newest Halo game as long as they, the corporations, think we should.
I still remember how upset people were over Steam and their online activation for HL2. It's standard practice now.

cluhlenbraucksays...

buy it and mod it. can't wait

JustSayingsaid:

If we, the people, were smart, we'd stop crap like the new XBox by simply not buying it. Unfortunately we're happy to bend over and spread our cheeks for the privilege to pay to be allowed to play the newest Halo game as long as they, the corporations, think we should.
I still remember how upset people were over Steam and their online activation for HL2. It's standard practice now.

mxxconsays...

Angry Joe needs some practice at his interviewing skills, however it's a commendable effort.
However, what majornelsol said is not that much different from what PS4 is doing.
Both companies are punting drm efforts to publishers.

Deanosays...

I'm not buying it. It's way too anti-consumer and it makes that initially investment feel even more expensive.
And I haven't seen any games that will make us forget this. And Halo? 343 are pretty average developers from what I've seen and I suspect Halo's best days are behind it.

JustSayingsaid:

If we, the people, were smart, we'd stop crap like the new XBox by simply not buying it. Unfortunately we're happy to bend over and spread our cheeks for the privilege to pay to be allowed to play the newest Halo game as long as they, the corporations, think we should.
I still remember how upset people were over Steam and their online activation for HL2. It's standard practice now.

HiroEXsays...

I really don't get why people are so upset over the new xbox. Could someone elaborate why it's so bad? The online check-in really doesn't seem to be that big of a deal to me, and it's somewhat understandable since they moved to a completely digital distribution (games are just pre-loads to save bandwidth), while still allowing people to transfer their digital games. Granted, I don't really ever sell my used games (am i an odd one out for that?) I keep seeing people say MS is being anti-consumer... what are they doing exactly that's infuriating everyone so much? Looking for someone to please explain what I'm missing?

mxxconsays...

Many people keep their consoles in areas of a house where there is no internet connection and they are not interested in it. They will happily play garage band/guitar hero or other party games.

xbox1 will be completely unusable to military personnel that are deployed overseas. On military bases internet connection is usually available only in designated locations and at designated times(think internet cafe-type setup).

A game can be EVER run on only 2 consoles. If you like to trade/exchange/lend your games with your friends, forget about it.

You can lend the same game to the same person only once.

In order to lend or sell/give away/trade games with somebody they must be in your friends list for at least 30 prior days.

If you want to play games you must pay Microsoft $60/year for as long as you use the console. $60, $120, $180, $240, $300. After 5 years you paid MS almost as much as the console itself for nothing.

HiroEXsaid:

I really don't get why people are so upset over the new xbox. Could someone elaborate why it's so bad? The online check-in really doesn't seem to be that big of a deal to me, and it's somewhat understandable since they moved to a completely digital distribution (games are just pre-loads to save bandwidth), while still allowing people to transfer their digital games. Granted, I don't really ever sell my used games (am i an odd one out for that?) I keep seeing people say MS is being anti-consumer... what are they doing exactly that's infuriating everyone so much? Looking for someone to please explain what I'm missing?

xxovercastxxsays...

Well, at the time they were the only console doing online well. They also had superior hardware and a far superior development environment (which was already familiar to PC devs) which led to a lot of high quality games in a short amount of time.

I assume you'll be buying a Wii U?

articiansaid:

As I've been saying since the first Xbox: This is Microsoft. Why did people embrace them in the first place? Track-record means nothing to consumers...

Send this Article to a Friend



Separate multiple emails with a comma (,); limit 5 recipients






Your email has been sent successfully!

Manage this Video in Your Playlists




notify when someone comments
X

This website uses cookies.

This website uses cookies to improve user experience. By using this website you consent to all cookies in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

I agree
  
Learn More