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Seece on 19 June 2013
Slimebeast said:
Yes, this was the final evidence.

It's like a house of cards, it's all falling apart. Now everyone knows Microsoft was lying and cheating and this will haunt them for the rest of the generation.

I told you this was the beginning of the end. The Xbos brand will never recover from this.


What have they lied about? Stop being so hyperbolic. The cloud computing is for online, key is in the word. Cloud was never going to work for people that were just going to log in once every 24 hours for a minute to check their X1.



 

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Mmmfishtacos on 19 June 2013

Most people agreed that it was nothing more than a pr stunt. It's only the die hards that beilved them.



Slimebeast on 19 June 2013
crissindahouse said:
Slimebeast said:
Yes, this was the final evidence.

It's like a house of cards, it's all falling apart. Now everyone knows Microsoft was lying and cheating and this will haunt them for the rest of the generation.

I told you this was the beginning of the end. The Xbos brand will never recover from this.

what exactly is different for singleplayer or multiplayer games as it was 5 hours ago for xbox one when we talk about the cloud? i really wonder what you think changed.

Whenever a journalist asked "why DRM? Why always online?", MS would reply "we want to do exciting things with the cloud".

So it was a PR show. They used the cloud as an argument for DRM.

But now this illusion fell apart.



JerCotter7 on 19 June 2013
Seece said:
Slimebeast said:
Yes, this was the final evidence.

It's like a house of cards, it's all falling apart. Now everyone knows Microsoft was lying and cheating and this will haunt them for the rest of the generation.

I told you this was the beginning of the end. The Xbos brand will never recover from this.


What have they lied about? Stop being so hyperbolic. The cloud computing is for online, key is in the word. Cloud was never going to work for people that were just going to log in once every 24 hours for a minute to check their X1.


That was a running joke for a while. That you had to log in every 24 hours to download more power from the cloud to run the games.



Shinobi-san on 19 June 2013
Mmmfishtacos said:
Most people agreed that it was nothing more than a pr stunt. It's only the die hards that beilved them.


QFT!!!



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Slimebeast on 19 June 2013
Seece said:
Slimebeast said:
Yes, this was the final evidence.

It's like a house of cards, it's all falling apart. Now everyone knows Microsoft was lying and cheating and this will haunt them for the rest of the generation.

I told you this was the beginning of the end. The Xbos brand will never recover from this.


What have they lied about? Stop being so hyperbolic. The cloud computing is for online, key is in the word. Cloud was never going to work for people that were just going to log in once every 24 hours for a minute to check their X1.

You better get used to the hyperbole. This gen is gonna be much harder for an Xbox fan than the past gen.



TheBlackNaruto on 19 June 2013

Man ANOTHER cloud thread this is getting ridiculous....how about EVERYONE stop arguing about SPECULATION and just WAIT to see HOW the Cloud will work in games and HOW developers will implement it into games...geez both sides the pro cloud and anti cloud folk are getting more and more silly. Neither side REALLY know if it works, if it will or even if it won't so give it a rest...smh



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Fifaguy360 on 19 June 2013

This doesn't disprove capabilities of cloud. Cloud is for people who ARE online so it will still cater to them. It's yet to be seen..what it can actually do.



gergroy on 19 June 2013
Slimebeast said:
crissindahouse said:
Slimebeast said:
Yes, this was the final evidence.

It's like a house of cards, it's all falling apart. Now everyone knows Microsoft was lying and cheating and this will haunt them for the rest of the generation.

I told you this was the beginning of the end. The Xbos brand will never recover from this.

what exactly is different for singleplayer or multiplayer games as it was 5 hours ago for xbox one when we talk about the cloud? i really wonder what you think changed.

Whenever a journalist asked "why DRM? Why always online?", MS would reply "we want to do exciting things with the cloud".

So it was a PR show. They used the cloud as an argument for DRM.

But now this illusion fell apart.

it may have been a show for justifying the DRM, but that doesn't have anything to do with the possible uses for cloud processing.  

All it really means is Microsoft didn't have a good reason for including the DRM policies...



teigaga on 19 June 2013

No, the online authentification had nothing to do with the cloud. It was to do with blocking used games.

Having to check in one a day, is not the same as having to be connected whilst playing which is what te cloud requires. That was always up to the user even with MS's old policies.