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Goatseye on 31 October 2013
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Raven722 said:
Goatseye said:
People are looking for something to justify their hatred towards MS.
Maybe some of us need to stay away from the plastic box a little bit to clear the cloud off of our brains.

It's impressive how people have a hive mind on the internet. Every MS/Xbox article is plagued with hateful comments towards a company that they don't want any relationship with. Group think is a very powerful thing and I believe there's a company that's capitalizing on all of this.


You do realize that bias behavior such as you described works both ways and with a great many examples of how often, right? I myself have no personal hatred towards Microsoft. It's a corporation doing what they do and you shouldn't expect much less. Hell, I like some of the games I've seen from them and I'm a big Halo fan. However, I don't think I'm the only one who has taken note of their continuous cock ups that usually involve lying to their consumers, throwing up smoke screens, or basically telling them to "deal with it".

If Microsoft would have done as Sony has with PR I would have no problem with them right now and I may even have considered buying an X1 at launch. But from their garbage reveal event all the way until now, I've just been wondering if this isn't just some big joke that I'm not in on. I have never seen such an otherwise well-oiled machine of a company make so many blunders towards their consumers. My hope is not that consumers like you or J Allard don't have fun with your purchases, rather that MS gets a huge slice of humble pie for their arrogance and stupidity. It can be hard to differentiate the two and I often find myself going about it wrong.

Well the market and the consumers of their product can talk with their wallet or go to appropriate forums to talk about it.

All I've seen from some folks is troll and that's it. No constructive comment or anything informative were brought out to justify juvenile behavior on every media outlet.

MS simply had a different vision for X1. I was up in arms with the initial reveal also because I like to travel and I would want to bring my X1 with me outside of the 13 allowed countries.I'm an Xbox division customer but I didn't start stamping #dealwithit on every internet page. It was mostly not MS customers that did that.

It wasn't because of the tamper tantrum that MS changed their minds but the pre-order numbers spoke louder than some bullies on Youtube and every other gaming website.

And since the reverse of policies, MS has seen a steady grow on their pre-order numbers and relationship w/ consumers. Same with W8. Due to a smart way to talk to business institutions.