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>> Well, if you want the @#$@ing from Gamestop, go play PS4
Stop telling customers "take it or leave it". Tell them, "I'm sorry you can't do that", or "we've decided not to support X because Y". You keep telling us to go fuck off and buy a PS4, we might just do that.
Then you blame your half-assed approach on competitors (right after saying competition is good). You're Microsoft! King of anti-competitive practices. Why do you care what Target, Walmart, Gamestop, or Amazon think? If you wanted to build a Steam competitor, why didn't you build a Steam competitor? Why did you create a shitty Steam DRM system on top of physical media.
>> We want to own the living room.
Do consumers want you to? Every update to XBox 360 has made it worse.
- more ads on the landing page instead of instant access to recently used apps (e.g. hiding Netflix).
- the horrible decision to make subtitles the system default, then keep turning it back on (seems like every 2-3 weeks it forgets I don't like them)
Prediction: XB1 home screen will just be wall to wall ads with a tiny little "play game" thing in the corner 7 screens over. Every time I want to play a game, I will probably have to scroll by shitty music offerings, shitty game previews, shitty video offerings, etc.
>> You can turn it off tho, and turn the console like OFF off
I bet this will be obnoxious and tedious. Switch on the back? Inside a settings menu?
>> We basically made a huge cloud compute shit and made it free
Really?!? No more Live fee? Did I totally miss this? or by "free" do you mean for "for sale costing money on an ongoing basis for consumer, but free for publishers"?
>> If all you do is play games, and nothing else, PS4.
This is why we're pissed and you seem to have missed that. Xbox should be a game console first, and a media machine second. MS has said they've made a really awesome Tivo + Roku machine and it also plays games.
So yeah, that's why MS is getting flak. But the real issue is that no one at MS seems to understand that!
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Then you blame your half-assed approach on competitors (right after saying competition is good). You're Microsoft! King of anti-competitive practices. Why do you care what Target, Walmart, Gamestop, or Amazon think? If you wanted to build a Steam competitor, why didn't you build a Steam competitor? Why did you create a shitty Steam DRM system on top of physical media.
>> We want to own the living room. Do consumers want you to? Every update to XBox 360 has made it worse. - more ads on the landing page instead of instant access to recently used apps (e.g. hiding Netflix). - the horrible decision to make subtitles the system default, then keep turning it back on (seems like every 2-3 weeks it forgets I don't like them)
Prediction: XB1 home screen will just be wall to wall ads with a tiny little "play game" thing in the corner 7 screens over. Every time I want to play a game, I will probably have to scroll by shitty music offerings, shitty game previews, shitty video offerings, etc.
>> You can turn it off tho, and turn the console like OFF off I bet this will be obnoxious and tedious. Switch on the back? Inside a settings menu?
>> We basically made a huge cloud compute shit and made it free Really?!? No more Live fee? Did I totally miss this? or by "free" do you mean for "for sale costing money on an ongoing basis for consumer, but free for publishers"?
>> If all you do is play games, and nothing else, PS4. This is why we're pissed and you seem to have missed that. Xbox should be a game console first, and a media machine second. MS has said they've made a really awesome Tivo + Roku machine and it also plays games.
So yeah, that's why MS is getting flak. But the real issue is that no one at MS seems to understand that! </rant>