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richardhutnik on 15 June 2012
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wfz said:
richardhutnik said:

I was saying that Microsoft, in particularly, doesn't offer a way for people to find and meet people who they share similar interests in, outside of a game.  Sony offered Home, but Microsoft offers nothing.  Why does this matter?  Well, take stuff like older XBLA stuff with leaderboards, or coop multiplayer, and it is such that, while some people do play them, they are not online when you are.  Of course, someone is going to go, "Why not just play the popular stuff?"  To this, I would answer, "So you are telling me my only option is to play a FPS like Call of Duty?:  It is a problem.  If you play a more obscure game, you don't find people for it, if they aren't on when you are.  Microsoft does NOTHING to remedy this at all.  They just want to make a buck off your network of contacts and do jack to have people expand this list.


You bring up a really great point but I feel like you're bashing Microsoft a little hard and are unlikely to garner positive feedback from people easily as they'll automatically take a defensive position. :P

If Nintendo really allows us to find and connect with like-minded individuals in such a way without much barrier then that'd be pretty cool.

Pardon this.  Maybe I need to go into some therapy to get over my attempt to support a bunch of XBox gamers who actually liked Game Room, and then finding out Microsoft really didn't care at all.  Yes, I went down the path of user community rep, and found out that Microsoft didn't get it at all.  I don't think they still do.  Sony tries with Home, but no one seems to be getting it actually.   If you look at the 100 friend list cap on XBox Live, I do believe Microsoft sees it as something you do with your normal contacts, not new people you meet.  

I will say that, when I write, I am not keeping a desire to "garner positive feedback" on this.  I am just writing my thoughts in a genuine way.  I don't see to impress, just express my mind.  Others can do the same.  I do hope that Nintendo does come up with a way to find gamers with similar interests.  What they have with their set up is something I see has potential.  Let's see if it delivers.  I still have concerns people will be doodling obscene stuff in their notes though.