MS preys on Consumer Ignorance with Xbox 360/One

[Dr.Henry_Killinger]

sales2099 said:

See that is where we must respectively disagree. The very nature of this entertainment medium prevents me from giving this any truly serious thought. Sure I love debating with people here as I am passionate about this and it helps the day go by, but I won't let a corporations likability get in the way of playing games that interest me.

A hobby by nature is something you do at your leisure and gives you pleasure. I won't treat it with the same seriousness as people protesting food companies with their food safety procedures, slaughterhouses and their animal treatment, Power companies and their nature conservation polocies while extracting oil, etc.

Granted this means that if I am dispelased with a console company, then it just means they get less of my money, but will buy the games I want regardless of how I think of them.

Allow me to be perfectly clear. I'm not concerned Xbox, their games, or their anticonsumer practices. I don't even care whether or not you support them with cash or personally have no problems with their bullshit.

What I do have issue with is your advocacy of their bullshit stemming from some misplaced sense of unity and community that orginally was shared between all members of the community. I don't care if you take it seriously or not, but I personally value the time, money, and commitment that I've put into this hobby because I value myself, and when I see a threat to it, thats when I take offense. And this advocacy of BS is a threat to gaming.

It is actively ruining my hobby.

People like to talk about how competition is good for the industry, but they fail to see the negatives that can become just as serious.

If XB1 got away with DRM then console gaming would be utterly ruined. And people like you would've let it happen.

So go on ahead, defend this bullshit, I will be right behind you calling it out.

Hopefully, this time Consumers are smart enough to realize this sh1t.