MS preys on Consumer Ignorance with Xbox 360/One

[J_Allard]

S.T.A.G.E. said:

J_Allard said:
Breaking news: Huge corporation enjoys making money.

All 3 of these game companies do thus. To try and rate them is a waste of time. Whoever you put #1, if the other 2 guys could be #1 they'd do it in a heartbeat.

This gen MS and Sony have both tried to pull one over on me. MS by "repairing" my RROD 360 burn it died agin the same night I got it back. Told them they have one more shot to fix it right or they lose my business and my last returned Xbox was a new unit with an updated chip set.

Sony has released games they knew were broken in terms of online MP hoping to capitalize on uninformed gamers, have charged my card multiple times for shit I didn't sign up for, tried to pull wool over our eyes with Killzone 6 resolution, and of course PSN hacked. Plus they have that fucking stupid 12GB console that is worthless if you wanna play many games. Do they warn people that some games will take almost all of that space? No. They don't care so long as you buy.

Article reads like it was written by a bitter GameFAQs poster.

No one denies corporations like to make money, but since Microsoft has joined...

Forcing people to pay for online.

Almost succeeded in ramming DRM down peoples throats until the whistle was blown on them after E3. 

Nickel and diming on accessories

Set a record for faulty hardware.

Pays to keep games away from competitors and then complains when they don't have parity (hypocrisy in its finest).

Flip flops because their ignorant approach in dealing with customers and indie devs. 

Admits to lack of first party at the end of the generation and talks about focusing on "quality" as an excuse for why they don't have new IP's.  They literally had to answer to the media for the last two years about it. They make a  new first party IP and then drop it to focus on buying Gears of War. Just shows you their undying devotion to testing new waters.

 

I enjoy the "Bitter MS FUD" section of your playbook as much as the next guy, but how is most of that post relevant to my post? Do I care that you think the RROD sucks, or that buying up content sucks (unless Sony does it), or that their stance on indie devs or 1st party quality sucks to you? That has nothing to do with capitalizing on the ignorant gamer.

I listed things MS and Sony have actually done directly to me as a consumer because they hoped I'd be complacent enough to not bat an eye. You're basically complaining about some policies and strategies they employ or even used to employ. The moral of the story remains, all companies try to capitalize on willing customers. Ranking them is stupid imho. You're basically saying businesses love money.