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Machiavellian on 11 April 2013
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Aielyn said:
Machiavellian said:
Even if this twitter thing did not get out of hand, MS would not have made a comment on it but instead either fired Orth or put him under a media blackout to keep his mouth shut.  It would not matter if his statements were truth or opinion.  The only reason you even have an apology is that Orth made rude comments to people so it required a response.

 You still keep missing the point that MS does not make any statements on something that does not exist and they will not make a statement until they make a reveal.  Trying to read between the lines is just creating your own opinion of what said but in reality it doesn't get any deeper than the Nextbox doesn't exist until MS says it does.

Once again, there is no reason why they would have to say a single word about an upcoming console in order to put out the fire that Orth set. It is trivial to put people's minds at ease by talking about Microsoft's perspective and opinion, rather than about what is coming. But they can't use this method unless what they say is actually accurate - that is, if MS aren't putting such a restriction into their system, then they can do it; but if they are making their next console always-online DRM, then using this method would backfire massively, for obvious reasons.

And any even half-competent PR person would see this. So if there wasn't any truth in the rumour, MS would be able to easily dismiss them, in a way that would be so trivial and uneventful that people would have forgotten about the events entirely by the time of the official unveiling, while preventing more such rumours.

So tell me - do you honestly think that Microsoft's PR people are so incompetent that they wouldn't be able to see this?


How can you put out the fire Orth set when you have to make a statement about a product that does not exist.  I just do not understand your reasoning.  It's trivial to you concerning the issue but its totally different on the corporate level.  Why would MS say anything about a product they have not released, that is not in the market if they already have a plan to deliver that message which is already probably costing them millions in prep.  Why would they spoil that work just to set YOUR mind at ease.  Once MS makes a state saying the Online only for the next xbox is false they just undermined their reveal, it opens up a can of words that potentially derail all the money they probably is spending and have spent on their reveal.  

 

Also, once you go down this road you set a precedent.  MS has always maintain a no comment on rumors and once they break that, they might as well not set policy on the matter.  MS is a big corporate machine and that machine does not break policy sometimes to the detriment of the company.

 

You really are thinking about this problem like a consumer.  Its no trivial for MS to make such a statement confirming or denying because it would not end with that statement.  The media would go crazy with a statement like that.  They would be all over MS to confirm and deny everything.  It would be even more post, on national web sites on the matter and it would eclipse their real reveal.

 

The thing is, MS isn't going to knee jerk respond and compromise their planned reveal.  MS has never talked about a product that they have not released or revealed.  No matter what the rumors are MS has never done this to my knowledge and I doubt they will.

 

I am going more on MS track record and you are going on a gut feeling of how MS should react.