Is it me, or are consumers attempting more crowd control than Microsoft?

[soulsamurai]

slowmo said:

soulsamurai said:

I haven't really seen much PR from microsoft on xbone really. What little we have seen, has just been a confirmation of what we feared with a light PR spin, or just enraging gamers more (i.e. No internet? We have a product for that called 360.), or claiming to be like steam and that it's "good for everybody" IT seems with every PR comment they make they're shooting themselves more in the foot so we've seen some tight lips recently.

What I do see is a lot of people trying really hard (especially in this forum, I'm not seeing it anywhere else really) to put a positive spin on their policies and justify their policies, sometimes even making things up...

Its the complete opposite, haters are making shit up to make the console seem less attractive.  Talk of turning activation servers off after 10 years, supposed hardware issues because of the size of the console, only focusing on the negatives of DRM and not the benefits, downplaying all exclusives and making out they're just timed with ZERO evidence to show otherwise, claiming high end PC's were used to make all XBO games look better on the basis on one picture from one third party and anecdotal evidence of a crash.   Then there are all the threads quoting twitter from Xbox support trying to twist normal customer service responses to questions its clear they don't have all the answers too into them somehow not caring or to downplay features.

 

This forum is riddled with Sony fanboys behaving as above but you somehow seem blind to it, wonder why?

Nah, not blind to, we all know their is hate roaming around, but that's not the point I'm trying to make.  What I'm saying is that microsoft isn't doing much to keep things calm it seems really......and when they do, it usually makes things worse. 

What I  do notice is a plethora of defensive threads, to go along with the plethora of the offensive ones. The defensive ones take a lot of thing out of context just as well and speculation (don't hate me pbroy, but i think your DRM thread is laughable and a good example for this) though, while others are definently doing a lot better than microsofts PR division and others..... "Well a rich kid who doesn't care about anyone else and this works for me.."

Also people defending with there heels so firm in the ground the responses of "deal with it" or "people will buy it anyway from studies" is astonishing to me. I will never understand fanboyism for any console....and before anyone gets in a hissy fit I'm not directing that fanboy comment to anyone. To me it seems like they've almost given up PR on it and are just lettig others do the talking for them....and if you want to be fair about it sony hasn't commented either and is letting their fans do the attacking for them.

 

If you really want to question my "loyalty to a company" with your ad hominem I'll spell it out for you. I could give a rat's ass about either company. Each generation if there is an exclusive I want bad enough that isn't on PC i'll nab the console. Happened last year with monster hunter on wii and star ocean (was still exclusive at the time) on 360. I'm the PC guy on the side watching both side with knives go at it having a laugh.  What I do have a problem is region locking, and always online. The fact that I'm in the military and move often to different countries where it won't work. I also deploy this winter. "One" of these consoles won't work anywhere I'm going or anywhere I'll be living until 2017.