The-Traveling-Bard said:
Anywho. I always hated the fact the xbox live charges me to use netflix and facebook..
Really?
Ps3 it's free.
PC it's free.
MY DAMN CABLE BOX IT'S FREE.
I don't have to buy extra money to use netflix on them.
Why should I pay netflix on xbox live? ;-;
I'd been meaning to ask someone if that was really true about the Xbox. That is absolutely ridiculous; aren't Netflix and Facebook completely separately entities (i.e. accessing them through your Xbox uses your internet connection; not Microsoft's servers or anything)? How the hell do they justify charging for things like that?!
OT: People hated the Xbone for much more than lack of games before E3, the reveal of their exclusives was just the only thing they had left to redeem themselves and it would appear they managed to balls that up as well.
In Short: Microsoft have revealed themselves to be among the most insidious of money-hungry fuckwits in the industry, and they didn't even have the good grace to buy us dinner before they fucked us, like EA or some other veteran cad would.
In Long: Everything about what they are doing with the Xbone is anti-consumer and makes them out to be more interested in having complete control over us than actually delivering services and products we'd enjoy and, while it would be naive to say there isn't an element of that in every big industry player, no one has ever done it in quite such a clear-cut manner.
Honestly, I'm surprised Microsoft's E3 presentation wasn't just two giant papier mache middle fingers dancing around either side of a screen saying 'Deal with It' while 'I'm Sexy and I Know It' played on loop for an hour.