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[Ryuu96]

Machiavellian said:

Ryuu96 said:

Brook only found out October 20th and it looks like they didn't even find out from Microsoft but users posting the message from their Xbox, Lol. Definitely too short of a notice, needs a lengthy delay and a big push to approve a bunch of "officially licensed for Xbox" gamepads and fight sticks before the ban is enforced. Then you also make it clear to new manufacturers that a ban is happening and they need to be officially licensed.

Got shooter fans happy, fighting fans angry, they need to find a middle solution.

This is a bad move by MS.  If they are going to do a move like this, they should have did it at the beginning of this gen or at the beginning of the next gen.  Doing it in the middle like this is going to get them a lot of really negative press which Sony and Nintendo could easily exploit.  Not sure who made this decision but the timing really sucks.

I don't really think it makes a difference whether it's beginning of the gen or not.

All Microsoft needs to do is delay the ban by about a year, announce that in a year from now, unapproved 3rd party devices won't work on Xbox consoles, then mass approve a bunch of 3rd party controllers within that year, starting with the most popular ones, anyone bringing a new device will have an entire year to get Microsoft licensing approval.

By that year is up, you can easily cover the vast majority of used 3rd party controllers and finally do something about the rampant cheating in Call of Duty and other shooters, by then the pros would outweigh the cons. The issue is they've given the manufacturers absolutely zero heads up and doing a ban before doing a mass approval of devices, another issue is if that "officially licensed" patch has a cost associated with it but I don't know about that.

So it's simply.

• Delay the ban by an entire year.
• Give manufacturers a whole year heads up.
• Make the costs to get the "officially licensed by Xbox" label either very small or not at all.
• Mass approve a ton of 3rd party controllers from various countries, gamepads and fight sticks.

End Result: Vast majority of 3rd party controllers are approved and rampant cheating in shooters is dealt with.

Right now shooting fans are overjoyed by the news of the cheat controllers being banned but the fighting community is enraged by their fight sticks not working, it's so easy to simply delay the date of the ban by a significant amount and work with these companies to approve the vast majority of them.

Delay things to the end of the gen and we still have games full with cheaters.

Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 30 October 2023