Jimquisition: Xbox One and the Death of Ownership
- Thread starter Jimothy Sterling
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Ya know what's really sad?
Back when RE6 was released, Jim, you were citing the exact OPPOSITE problem. Back then, companies were trying to hard to please everyone at once.
Now, Microsoft and others don't care AT ALL about pleasing their customers.
Back when RE6 was released, Jim, you were citing the exact OPPOSITE problem. Back then, companies were trying to hard to please everyone at once.
Now, Microsoft and others don't care AT ALL about pleasing their customers.
I always thought they did want to please as many people as they could, they just didn't know how to do it. RE6 was a perfect example simply because it tries to please too many different demographics at once. Since then, however, we have slid more and more towards a game industry that doesn't even care anymore. The "crowning glory", as Jim put it, of shameless pandering. And now we have the exact opposite: not giving one single licking FUCK about your customer's opinions.Blue Ranger said:
Microsoft has, since the Xbone reveal, basically told their customers 'fuck you we do what we want'. If you'd told me a year ago that Microsoft would do something stupid? Yeah, I could believe that, but if you'd told me that they would literally tell their customers TO THEIR FACES to not buy their product, I would've told you to stop sniffing paint. I am honestly shocked that this is an actual thing that is happening.
Exactly. I mean, seriously, there are games that are only about two years old that I can no longer play because the servers were taken down. What's going to happen when that affects not only a single game but an entire console and all of its content?Kuilui said:
We can't be acting like there aren't a lot of us who are still playing the first games we ever played, or play one game for years to master it, and a lot of us are still doing that on the first consoles we ever owned. Even if Microsoft's plan is to stick with the Xbox One for twenty years or whatever, it's still not going to have the same theoretically unlimited longevity as a SNES or a PS2 because the service that's necessary for the Xbone console to run will still be shut down at some point, which can never happen to an offline console.
Maybe that won't be an issue until fifteen or twenty years down the road, but it's still an issue. I regularly play games older than that.
Well played. Still that's a very expensive brick. Can you imagine building a house out of X-1's? None the less I'm still thinking there's hope for the console. Perhaps they'll see the error of their ways and patch those features everyone is against. But if sales reach a decent number chances are nothing will change.Althus said: