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landguy1 on 04 October 2013
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WiiBox3 said:
-CraZed- said:
WiiBox3 said:
-CraZed- said:
Wright said:

petroleo said:

but for MS and his monopolistic ways


How could they did "monopolistic" things since you had alternatives if you didn't want the Xbox One? I'm sorry, this does not compute. If you didn't like it, don't rant about it. Go buy something else.

I think he means anti-consumer...

"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.

It may have limited the way that consumers could resell their purchased games, but did not completely remove it.

I think this had more to do with the XBO allways online initiative, which would make it so any retail game you bought would always be available to you through their servers and you would only need to use the disk once. The problem that created is if someone wanted to resell their retail disk MS would have to have a way to deactivate that game from your account, which would require the system to check to make sure that once someone else installed the game using your disk to another XBO they could make your installed copy not work. This would require the once every 24 hour check on the machine, and maybe a company such as Gamestop or Amazon that could reactivate the disk on thier computers for someone else to use.

But I could be very wrong.

I think you have it pretty right to me.

We are months removed from this fiasco and still people think M$ was taking something away from them.  The policy changed the format for how it was done, it did not take it away.  Most people could neve quite understand it, so they cancelled/180'd the idea.  The always online made everyone think it was DRM, which in some ways it is.  But no big deal if you paid for the game either through digital or physical disc.  By the end of this generation, it will be hard to even find disc copies of most titles.  And even then, they will have a level of DRM to them.  Both Sony and M$ have slearly said that they won't require it, but all publishers will decide that themselves.