Poll: Has Microsoft's changes to Xbox One DRM changed your decision on getting the console?
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M$ can eat me. They're trying to salvage the spectacular mess they made, and even disregarding they did it for the moneyz rather than treating customers with common decency, all I can say is too little too late. I won't forget what they tried to do. They went too far, and they can just go and shove it.
Besides, even if I were to forgive them, the damn thing still has the mandatory Kinect, and I don't want Orwell's nightmare child anywhere near my house.
Besides, even if I were to forgive them, the damn thing still has the mandatory Kinect, and I don't want Orwell's nightmare child anywhere near my house.
I thought I was the only person who remembered Sony intentionally infecting peoples computers with a virus and getting away with it.BlackMageBob said:
Back on topic; My position has changed, somewhat. I will need to see what, if anything, is going to be done about the Kinect.
Pretty much this. I'm not getting a One just because they think they're doing me a favour by getting rid of crap that shouldn't have been there in the first place.Jmp_man said:
Hmmmm, I'm still not going to buy one right away. First there is the whole Kinect thing still making me roll my eyes. There is also the problem XBox 360 had for a long while with the first and second generation products.. THE RED RING OF DEATH!!!
Not going to get it until all the kinks are worked out.
Not going to get it until all the kinks are worked out.
Still has mandatory kinect. Still costs around £100 more for worse hardware because of the kinect. Still looks like an uglier VCR. Still probably a reliable murder weapon. Still absolutely no backwards compatability. Will still probably have a high rate of hardware failures. Still has some mostly bad looking exclusives, with the exception of like two games.
So yeah, nope.
So yeah, nope.
It's made me soften my position. I'm still concerned over the integrated Kinect and the lack of backwards compatibility, but these are (relatively) minor issues. This U-turn by Microsoft has resolved all the issues I considered to be deal-breakers, so I can't really stand by my previous position of 'never gonna get one' with any validity.
Microsoft has done what we asked - it listened to us. It'd be churlish of gamers in the extreme not to listen to Microsoft in return.
Microsoft has done what we asked - it listened to us. It'd be churlish of gamers in the extreme not to listen to Microsoft in return.
Well i never did intend on getting it. (PC master race and all)
But now they really fucked themselves over.
There is still mandatory Kinect, that most people hate. It's not the fact that the kinect will get shipped with it, it's the fact that is HAS to be plugged in for EVERY game, or for the console to even WORK.
Second, that whole cloud bullshit, family sharing stuff and the rest of the bad things everyone hated, was another way of justifying that 500 bucks price tag. What do consumers get now for 500 bucks? A slightly more powerful 360 with mandatory spy apparatus.
But now they really fucked themselves over.
There is still mandatory Kinect, that most people hate. It's not the fact that the kinect will get shipped with it, it's the fact that is HAS to be plugged in for EVERY game, or for the console to even WORK.
Second, that whole cloud bullshit, family sharing stuff and the rest of the bad things everyone hated, was another way of justifying that 500 bucks price tag. What do consumers get now for 500 bucks? A slightly more powerful 360 with mandatory spy apparatus.
Your poll options aren't really fitting me because the change made me willing to get one, but I still need it to have some games I actually want to have in order to actually want to shell out money for it. I don't buy a console for what it does, I buy it for the games it plays. It has always been like that and I would have considered getting one if it could offer me enough good games.
No. Microsoft had their chance, they blew it. We've all seen the future they promise and it's not a good future for us. It's very good for them, very good for the publishers, but terrible for us. Anyone that thinks Microsoft has learned their lesson is being naive.
I chopped up your comment a bit to get the bits I thought relevant, I agree with all these points and think Microsoft no longer deserve our trust, our respect, our money or our forgiveness.Atmos Duality said:
I voted yes but im more likely to just upgrade my PC. But from a consumer standpoint and if i had to get one console it would probably be the xbox one now. As i prefer the xbox controller over the playstation, and im not so much into japanese flared games. But most important, microsoft listened to consumers and changed.
Absolutely no chance I'm getting one. Their scummy attitude contributed to my original decision to just upgrade or replace my gaming PC this generation, at least until PS4 gets cheap later in the generation.
I had an Xbox and a 360 and any brand loyalty I might have had has been completely shattered.
I had an Xbox and a 360 and any brand loyalty I might have had has been completely shattered.
QFT.Terminate421 said:
I want to see more value for XBLGold, I want to know if the marketplace is gonna be of better value (IE more competitive pricing-wise) than X360's, and reassurances that X180's Kinect isn't stalking me and can be unplugged when not in use (watching TV, playing a game that doesn't use it, etc.
Microsoft shoul do a parody video of Sony's Howto lend a game to a iend" video: the EXACT same thng, but with 2 guys with black eyes and missing teeth.
That would make for a great mea culpa in my book lol
That would make for a great mea culpa in my book lol
So video game developpers will be forced to makes their own "DRM" with more DLC and multiplayer restrictions... like they were gonna do with their PS4 counterparts. Guess it's good: gamers will be able to reign in the $$$ zealots at the company level by their choices of games they buy. I thought the online hatred was over-the-top fan boys doing what they usually do. I'm glad I was wrong... THANK YOU, INTERNET!
No poll option satisfies my stance. I was never getting a console in the first two years. There are always issues to work out since the year 2000 hit.
The lifting of the restrictions is now one thing that may have me getting a Xbox One down the line. But it will need several exclusives for me to warrant getting another console.
Also, the way this works is you have to connect it to download a firmware patch to allow all these things to happen which means that they can change their minds later with another patch and an EULA to bash people with.
The lifting of the restrictions is now one thing that may have me getting a Xbox One down the line. But it will need several exclusives for me to warrant getting another console.
Also, the way this works is you have to connect it to download a firmware patch to allow all these things to happen which means that they can change their minds later with another patch and an EULA to bash people with.
No. they've shown their contempt for the consumer and now they're trying to save face. I will also take this announcement more seriously if they announced with the dropping of the drm that they will also release the xbone to more countries than the previous 21. I just have Ackbar in my head at the moment screaming it's a trap and also thinking of the PS3 removing functions after launch. If micrsoft can turn off the online component so easily i'd be worried about them turning it back on in a system update and hiding this fact in the EULA along the lines of "by agreeing to this update you accept that your x-box one must connect to our servers every 24 hours" and having it on page 26 3/4 of the way down the page.
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