So don't use Skype...Blueshadow said:Even if Microsoft wasn't using the Kinect to spy on users, they are already doing so with Skype. Which is also going on the Xbox one, that's food for thought. Regardless, the Kinect is still mandatory, which is ridiculous. I don't need nor want to talk or scream at my console and TV like an idiot. I don't need yet another camera in my home. I have to have the stupid thing in-order to use the console, why? It's not moving gaming forward. Why anyone trusts this company after the Prism debacle is beyond me.
Hope you're not using Windows or any Apple OS because if so, you're still trusting Microsoft/Apple.
Sure, just as their userbase would steadily drop bit by bit. People are already upset about the small ads on the Home tab of the 360 Dashboard.Lusty said:Sure, if they did it today. But they'll implement it bit by bit, over a number of years, and slowly but surely people will accept it. I'd rather we didn't set off down that slippery slope in the first place.
10 years ago the idea of having to pay to play games online would have been ridiculous, now both the major consoles are going to require it.
It wasn't ridiculous 10 years ago because that's when Live came out. Discarding the argument of time even, paying for online services back then was agreeable because they didn't have the power or the personnel that they have now. They were somewhat stretched for what they had to work with. Besides, you weren't hosting the server to play online on your console unlike online PC games. They were doing that.
You know what though? It's fine if you don't like using the Kinect. I don't either. However, hate it for the right reasons, please.