Xbox One
Microsoft has announced an almost full reversal of the controversial digital rights management features built into the Xbox One. The console, launching later this year, will no longer require an online connection, or need to ping the Microsoft servers every 24 hours to hang on to life. It will also now play discs like any regular console and no longer place restrictions on trading games. There will also be no regional restrictions.
Waiting for this to be outed as a practical joke.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
"There’s a few things we won’t be able to deliver as a result of this change," Marc Whitten, v.p. of Xbox Live told Kotaku, "One of the things we were very exicted about was 'wherever we go my games are always with me.' Now, of course, your physical games won’t show up that way. The content you bought digitally will. But you’ll have to bring your discs with you to have your games with you. Similarly, the sharing library [is something] we won’t be able to deliver at launch."
Oh no! Please change it back again. I would be willing to put up with hourly internet checks if you would only give me these incredible options.
Honestly, I hate physical media. I wish they would make this an option. I want nothing to do with DVDs. I want my media to travel wherever I go, without me doing a damned thing. And I have no problem with doing hourly or whatever checks (until my Internet connection dies) in exchange for that.
But I want it as an option, not forced.
But I want it as an option, not forced.
It's not me, it's someone else.
I was thinking, you hear it said that used games hurt publishers because they don't get any of that money but that's incorrect. In the vast majority of cases they do in fact get a portion of that money, just not directly.
When person A sell a used copy of game X to Gamestop, in almost all cases they then turn around and use that money to buy a new game Y. Person B buying the used game X is what helps fund that second new game Y purchase. In many cases if person A couldn't sell that used game X then they would not have bought game Y. Person B would still have probably bought game X on sale eventually, so ultimately it's a wash to the publishers as they get about the same number of sales with only the particular game being sold being what is shifted around with the used game market.
Of course Gamestop is ultimately screwing over both A and B with their ridiculous margins and they'd be better off if some other party (like the console makers) were the ones managing the used game market, but there's no need to find some new way to capture the money or anything because it's already being captured in sales of other new games with the credits funded by the used game market.
When person A sell a used copy of game X to Gamestop, in almost all cases they then turn around and use that money to buy a new game Y. Person B buying the used game X is what helps fund that second new game Y purchase. In many cases if person A couldn't sell that used game X then they would not have bought game Y. Person B would still have probably bought game X on sale eventually, so ultimately it's a wash to the publishers as they get about the same number of sales with only the particular game being sold being what is shifted around with the used game market.
Of course Gamestop is ultimately screwing over both A and B with their ridiculous margins and they'd be better off if some other party (like the console makers) were the ones managing the used game market, but there's no need to find some new way to capture the money or anything because it's already being captured in sales of other new games with the credits funded by the used game market.
"ATTENTION: Customers browsing porn must hold magazines with both hands at all times!"
I think ultimately this may be what eventually kills XBox. There's been a clear trend towards the must-play games being indie rather than big AAA titles, and MS does it's best to make XBLA as antagonistic towards indie games as it possibly can. If that doesn't change, XBox will eventually be nothing but EA frat games.
"ATTENTION: Customers browsing porn must hold magazines with both hands at all times!"
New rep system.
Intriguing.
Players who prefer to stick with a party of known people in their friends lists won't be affected by the reputation system changes, Lavin said. Those playing with random, anonymous strangers, though, will quickly find that they are matched up with people who have similar reputation scores.
Intriguing.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Microsoft to Japan: We're not even going to try.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
XBone designed from the ground up to do one thing: serve you advertisements.
http://sticktwiddlers.com/2013....in-mind
The games and content and stuff are just to get your eyeballs. The camera is to know who they should cater the ads to. The daily "phone home" was to get the updated ads, and tweak the heuristics of the algorithm of what ads to serve.
Microsoft is trying to sell you customer base directly to advertisers, after giving you the privilege of paying for it. They can give you the hardware free, or they can serve ads. Anything else is an insult.
http://sticktwiddlers.com/2013....in-mind
The games and content and stuff are just to get your eyeballs. The camera is to know who they should cater the ads to. The daily "phone home" was to get the updated ads, and tweak the heuristics of the algorithm of what ads to serve.
Microsoft is trying to sell you customer base directly to advertisers, after giving you the privilege of paying for it. They can give you the hardware free, or they can serve ads. Anything else is an insult.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Combating the red ring of death.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Want to record and make machinima videos that millions of people love watching on youtube and helps spread the brand of the machine on which you are recording?
It'll cost you if you want to do it on XBox One.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23613754
It'll cost you if you want to do it on XBox One.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23613754
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Microsoft will pay you to trade in your PS3.
https://www.nerdist.com/2014....our-ps3
https://www.nerdist.com/2014....our-ps3
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
The X-Box One is getting its ass kicked by the PS4 in sales lately.
There have been stories about retailers like EBGames giving away additional incentives to try and get rid of their XB One supply. Meanwhile, the PS4 isn't in stock anywhere.
Sucks to be $100 more expensive than your biggest competitor, AND have equal processing power and graphics. Probably didn't help when they acted all arrogant about their previous market dominance.
Got an email today from MS to my business MS account offering Titanfall for free plus a month of X-Box Gold for only the cost of the X-Box One ($499)!!! Oh boy! Please sign me up for your overpriced and under powered PC for dummies, and while you're at it, please make me pay to multiplay games, something people using PCs (and PS4s?) don't have to do...
There have been stories about retailers like EBGames giving away additional incentives to try and get rid of their XB One supply. Meanwhile, the PS4 isn't in stock anywhere.
Sucks to be $100 more expensive than your biggest competitor, AND have equal processing power and graphics. Probably didn't help when they acted all arrogant about their previous market dominance.
Got an email today from MS to my business MS account offering Titanfall for free plus a month of X-Box Gold for only the cost of the X-Box One ($499)!!! Oh boy! Please sign me up for your overpriced and under powered PC for dummies, and while you're at it, please make me pay to multiplay games, something people using PCs (and PS4s?) don't have to do...
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell