kowenicki said:
OT Not very classy, a joke that has back fired. I assume there will be a "clarification" release soon... the reaction of the OP is somewhat over the top. |
Well, considering MS did their 180 as a result of pressure from gamestop in relation to the entire system as it was, Adam Orth's comments did kind of represent an extremely flawed industry mentality. When you looked at the preorders, and the polls, like for example amazon showing 95% to 5%, ps4 vs One, it really puts all his comments into perspective...from harmless sarcasm into corporate arrogance.
Like I've said before, the One was a good idea, minus the required DRM....in 2013. There were better ways to handle that kind of account management at this time. Had it been 2015-16-17, the requirements would not have hit so hard. We are still in a transitional period into the kind of social/societal/technological framework that would have made sense with those policies. As I said the other day, MS wasn't getting bashed for making poor business decisions, they were getting bashed for making destructive business decisions. ie; so what that 25% of america isn't connected...that won't really affect the bottom line too adversely. But those 25% of people still exist.
Adam Orth basically took what eventually became a complete reversal of policy, and threw it in the faces of that 25%.
Meanwhile, that number is substantially bigger than 25% considering that internet does indeed go out, or doesn't get paid, or is connected via satellite which doesn't work on rainy days, or if a wire goes down, or modem/wireless router fail (which modems do fail, according to my comcast electrician who said 1 in 4 go out within a year, probably because they use sub quality parts), or that people travel.
While Adam Orth didn't deserve to be fired for his comments, and we can't blame MS for his point of view, we can still say that MS' policies were still bad, self-evidenced by their own retraction.
