damndl0ser said:
I don't think anyone is really defending it. It sucks no doubt. However this is just more bs spin against microsoft. The simple fact is if you purchased a 3rd party device that isn't licensed by Microsoft its your fault for doing so if they end up causing it to quit working. Something similar would be the R4 that is illegally used on nintendo Ds's. No it isn't exactly the same thing but neither are licensed products so it doesn't matter.
Sony has been down this road before with digital cameras. They force you to buy their shitty format if you wish to store your pictures. No one beoches about that however. |
I avoided Sony cameras just for that reason. If I wanted to spend what a Sony camera cost, I had a wide choice of similar price and equal or better quality brands. While I support Sony (and Nintendo too) as a barrier against any attempt by MS to grab another monopoly, I don't support it blindly. I like its optical drives, but I always hated Trinitron CRT's, for example.
Protesting against extremely closed, proprietary and greedy MS policies is in our interest: as long as almost all of us have to use some MS products for whichever reason, making it know we don't like its policies and we avoid its products whenever possible also for this reason (sloppy QA is another) is just one of the things we can do to change the current state of affairs.
