WiiBox3 said:
"anti-consumer" is also an incorrect way to describe it. "anti-consumer" is trying to prevent people from buying things at all. MS as well as every other company in the world that sells stuff is pro-consumer. They want you to buy their stuff and a lot of it. What you are looking to say is they are against used game resale. Or more acurrately against easy resale of used games, since they were going to have ways for you to sell your used game, it just wasn't going to be as easy as current used game resale. TL DR Microsoft is anything but "anti-consumer". They want you to buy lots of their Sh*t, which is pro-consumer. |
The term anti-consumer is also used to describe the practice of limiting consumer choice and options. The original MS policies for the XB1 were most certainly meant to limit consumer choice and control over the products they consumed (games in this case) and protect profit margins for the developers etc. and take away the ability for CONSUMERS to resell their purchased games. MS was looking to limit consumer activity which is indeed 'anti-consumer.'
Luckily they have since changed their stance and good for them and good for consumers. But 'anti-consumer' is very apt for the past Xb1 policies.
