| Machiavellian said: I am sorry but Sony did not learn anything from MS. If anything they have projected the cost and benefits long before MS even put such policy into place. They chose to do it because it makes more money. Trying to push the blame and spin it any different is really showing your colors. Hell, Sony even made a statement a long time ago that they will not charge for MP and look at us today. Corporations make choices just like any individual. The fact you want to ignore your preferred corporation doing someting for pure profit doesn't look good for your argument. What other things Sony is going to do that you will push the blame to some other competitor because it helps you to sleep at night. |
You keep talking but you have yet to do the one thing I asked, provide an example. You're making all these wild claims and conjectures, prove your reasoning. Because I have been giving evidence of Microsoft's shit.
You mean to tell me that Sony was able to see into the future and predict that there would be no backlash from charging for multiplayer, or that DRM would be unfavorable with the consumers? You mean to tell me that Sony knew this and MS did not? Give me an example of pushing the blame on to competitors and spinning from Sony, the only one making PR statement to clean up their own shit is Microsoft.
Since Feb 22, PS4 has had the same exact stance, no 180's no back tracks, everytime a negative rumor comes out about PS4, it just gets disproved by reality.
Like I said, whenever, MS's bs is exposed fans like you will downplay and damage control to try and equate the playing field.
Prove your claims or you're just creating FUD.
The most idiotic thing about your rant is that you have obviously confused my intentions, this is not some stupid fanboy dribble.
I've said countless times, I like Xbox's games just as much as Like PlayStation's, or Nintendo's, my problem was the what MS gets away with, and thats why I've never subscribed to Live. But my problem is with, is the defense and advocacy of MS's anticonsumer polices, with reasoning's like I only care about myself and its not that serious. But it is actively harming console gaming, because the standards for MS are lower despite the fact that they are by far the most capable.
PSN and PS+ have exsisted long before the start of this generation, but clearly paying for netflix, youtube, ie, ads, multiplayer, and xbl marketplace was "no big deal", so its ludicrous to claim that Sony wasn't prompted by MS to make PS+ mandatory for multiplayer cause XBl has been getting away with it since its inception, especially after 8+ years.
You claim to have a "counter argument" when you don't even have an argument let alone any evidence to support it.
You keep attempting to reduce everything to cost and benefits, which ultimately is the purpose of a buisness, but you are blantaly ignoring the vast difference between how these companies approach it.
You can be profitable by valuing the consumers and coaxing them to pay you rather than forcing them to pay you. XBL vs PS+ is a fundamental example. PS+ gives you free games that are accessible with the service, the more games you have the more incentive you have to subscribe, similar to the gamerscore with XBl. Now PS+ requires payment for multiplayer to make the service more valuable by taking value away from the console. Its a shitty practice, but XBL has this problem in spades. Rather than just multiplayer, practically the entire feature set of the console requires XBL, stealing value away from the console to make itself look like a premium service, but of course it should have ads because MS is bleeding money from every oriffice.
Leave you conjecture at the door, the only reason you think all companies act like this is because Microsoft Xbox has indoctirnated you.
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