enditall727 said:
fordy said:
Well of course icrosoft want more control over their market, but any company could just say "Hey let's be an asshole corporation and fuck over consumer rights to help our bottom line", but the problem with that is that they know they'll get consumer backlash, and I don't think Microsoft is stupid enough to willingly fall into that hole, because it's an incredibly difficult place to get out of.
Were there external influences? It's possible. In fact, it wouldn't suprise me if Microsoft went up to somebody like EA and said "Hey we have this great idea for optional DRM that we're going to put in the Xbox One", and those developers backed up and said that if they don't add these extra oversights (which IMO seem tacked on to the original idea, whether it was Microsoft's idea to do that, or somebody else), then they wont get their 3rd party support. Ultimately that means that while the Oversightsmight not have been Microsoft's original idea, they're the ones responsible for the consumer backlash, since they're the ones who were trying to shift the goalposts without consideration of consumer rights.
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Well it looked like MS originally tried to ignore the backlash. They tried to stand their ground with their drm policy but were forced to retreat when the pre orders came in heavy in favor of the PS4. Then they tried to act like they were listening to the backlash.
You know how everybody implies that the internet is irrelevant to the real world?
They knew about what was going to be hampered and tried to say "look at the benefits" at the end of the day
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It's the case with all new controversial products/services. There will be a degree of backlash from it, but Microsoft most likely underestimated the extent of that, thinking their vision was a good one for consumers AND developers, but their vision on the consumer rights front was a little shortsighted.
Let me ask this: How many of the people protesting consumers rights knew the reasons as to why Microsoft decided to go this way? (As stated in the OP?) A large, unruly mob doesn't always know both sides of the story...
