Xbox One Limited To 21 Countries At Launch
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Wow I didn't know that, consoles banned in China? That's pretty extreme :OJadak said:
But yeah with all the other countries, I can't see this working out too well for Microsoft. Each moment they delay is more and more customers switching over to PS4, especially when most of the games available for Xbox One will also be available for PS4. I mean once it gets the reputation that you can't play online with certain friends, I imagine it will be very hard to change that image, especially when there's a cheaper alternative that plays the games just as well (on top of all the other stuff that is).
I pretty much thought the same thing. But you know, seeing as in the last 2 months I have only had concurrent internet use for 7 days (and counting) due to the excessive cable theft in my area, it wouldnt really have made a difference if SA was on that list.croc3629 said:
This fallacy comes up all the time, ie: "console ban in China". It's a vague "grey" ban, which amounts to being empty policy that is not at all enforced. I've been here for years. The amount of people that have all of the current and past consoles/handhelds is insane. Why, just today, I received two new games (one ps3 and one xbox 360 game) in the post from Hong Kong. I also bought both of my consoles in Hong Kong, and brought them back with me to the mainland.Jadak said:
Xbox LIVE may be banned here, but the consoles certainly aren't. I guarantee you will see a "CrackXBone" here within 2 years of release.
I never thought I'd hear the sound of someone hammering a nail into a coffin from the inside. But sure enough, tok, tok.
I suppose this means that you can´t play online games in omitted regions, not that you can´t connect to verify your account on a daily basis? Or what?
Presumably, this would mean that since you can't connect to LIVE services, then you can't play at all since the console needs to connect to their servers once per day. I suppose a connection to the server is still possible and thus your game/account/whatever is verified, but you can't play online.MrBaskerville said:
If you're not on the list of Microsoft's most special 21 friends, you can't verify your account, meaning your Xbone can't be authorized originally, and will deauthorize every time it tries to phone home. This might even include situations where your IP is masked as being in a country that's not on the lest, even if the console's in an authorized country.MrBaskerville said:
Well, this is funny indeed. First, in all the world, the probabilities of having a possibly rich guy, with constant internet conntecion, that just wants casual games, is not bothered of him not being able to share games, that loves to be observed by microsoft with the Kinect and does not mind missing backwards compatibiity is preety low, now it's going to be even less by reducing the amount of countries.
With this and Windows 8, I think that Microsoft's strategy plan is to experiment if fanboys will still buy the sh*ttiest platform on all the market, that or they have serious, serious problems...
With this and Windows 8, I think that Microsoft's strategy plan is to experiment if fanboys will still buy the sh*ttiest platform on all the market, that or they have serious, serious problems...
I thought they were just looking at Apple and chasing after it, and the iPad sales like a delusional puppy. I mean, I've got no other explanation for Windows 8 and the freakin' Surface, though if there is one, I'd like to hear it.Lerola said:
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7%, actually, not that it matters. Throwing away almost 2 million sales because someone else is selling even better, is an useless reason for stopping distributiom.shintakie10 said:
Then don't localize games. Easy as that.shintakie10 said:
I have been playing games in english since my childhood, here in Hungary. By the time I was a teenager, I ended up learning the language.
Yet right now, if I would want to play any Xbox game, my best bet would be to move to Austria, because Microsoft isn't just "not localizing" games, but making it PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE to play them in most countries of the world.
And attitude is part of the reason why Sony was ouselling them in those regions even until now. If your problem doesnn't sell, that's a problem to solve. Refusing to sell it there is the worst possible way to "solve the problem".shintakie10 said:
Wonder how they're going to react. I wouldn't be surprised if they just said "Nope. Too much bloody effort." and abandoned the Xbone. Also, Poland is one of the few countries that wasn't TERRIBLY affected by the financial crisis (I mean, we have SOME financial growth and the middle class wasn't hit REALLY hard).lacktheknack said:
I've noticed another one just as bad as not being able to play Witcher 3 in Poland.
You also can't use the console in Ukraine, and guess where World of Tanks comes from?
That game is even online only and NEEDS Xbox Live to function. It's not like Witcher which could theoretically work offline.
You also can't use the console in Ukraine, and guess where World of Tanks comes from?
That game is even online only and NEEDS Xbox Live to function. It's not like Witcher which could theoretically work offline.
No, pretty much everyone understands that MS seems to consider some regions "not important enough" or "yeah who cares about those fuckers, they can wait". There's not much difference between "at launch" and "at all" in case of a new console release, seriously.Akalabeth said:
If you wanted an Xbone and live in Czech Republic, for example, this is basically being told "Well sucks to be you, lol".