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Machiavellian on 23 August 2013
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S.T.A.G.E. said:
Machiavellian said:

Why don't you go read the article before making comments.  Do you people actually read the links you post 

""Titanfall is an example of that. It's a product that came in through our EA Partners group, it's a partnership with Respawn, and there was an opportunity for Microsoft, EA and Respawn to create a tactical opportunity to make Titanfall exclusive to Microsoft."

MS pays anyone who will take their money on any time of exclusive deal they can manage.  Its not just EA as UBi just signed someting, Capcom and a host of others.  Big deal, 

As for screwing gamestop, so what. I rather have a steam setup for consoles where game prices dropped then purchase another game from gamestop or any retail store.  I am sure one of the partners for resell of digital content would have been gamestop but thats neither here or there and now the whole issue has been turned to fuel edge fanboys swords which missinformation.


Microsoft doesn't just throw their money at EA, they know Sony and EA have a good business relationship. They know there will be big repercussions with Sony if Sony's launch goes  off without a hitch. Chances are the majority gamers will only respond to price. MS knows who they are throwing money at and why. 

What does Steam have to do with this? Why does Steam have to be brought into anything dealing with consoles? Theres no missinformation in this shit, Microsoft was going to use the Azure cloud system to set up a paywall on used gams for the Xbone in the very beginning. It was  going to give a cut of the profits to Microsoft and EA and whatever participating third party wanted to participate in it. That all came from a leak and fans complained because it  disrupts their way to get good pricing on console games. The speculation on the issue was  that if MS was goingto go through with this Gamestop would specifically raise the prices of used games, until used games on the Xbox One were no longer desirable. The PS4 would've been fine but everyone was up in arms because this affects potential Xbox One owners.

Noticed I said Steam type of service.  Meaning the great dicounts you get on Steam, I would have like to see in the console space.   PC games are not tied to retail stores like console games and thus we see great deals on that side.  Once console games are not tied to retail stores then we will see the same.

As for what MS was going to do, I have no clue because they dropped it all before it was finalize.  You say they were going to put it behind a pay wall with azure but there is nothing supporting that theory since this is the last statement they made before dropping the whole online bit.

"Today, some gamers choose to sell their old disc-based games back for cash and credit. We designed Xbox One so game publishers can enable you to trade in your games at participating retailers. Microsoft does not charge a platform fee to retailers, publishers, or consumers for enabling transfer of these games."

So I am not sure where you are getting your info, I just grab that one from this link  http://www.gizmag.com/xbox-one-always-online-used-games-block/27829/