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Xero on 03 April 2010
Kenoid said:
But Xero, the company has the rights to do anything they want with their stuff when they buy it

What do you mean? That would seem to be a complete contridiction of the EU directive. 

 

 



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NoCtiS_NoX on 03 April 2010
fighter said:
Xero said:
Okay then so why can't, in Europe... I sue microsoft because I can't play online on my original Xbox? I want to play Conker Reloaded but I can't anymore. Plus when I bought the 360 originals on the store they were advertised with Online support, but now that doesn't function contrary to the terms of my purchase.

Can I sue?

 

Green should be legal. Usually, "common industrial practices and standards" replace the law whenever specific aspects are not explicitely specified. And usuallly, whenever a software or hardware product is not sold anymore its' support can cease as well.

 

As for the orange part that wouldn't be legal. You can sue MS for that at least in the EU.

Since PS3 phat is being discontinued and it's not being sold anymore, the system that features installing other OS then it seems that it is pretty much legal doesn't it?



fighter on 03 April 2010
NoCtiS_NoX said:
fighter said:
Xero said:
Okay then so why can't, in Europe... I sue microsoft because I can't play online on my original Xbox? I want to play Conker Reloaded but I can't anymore. Plus when I bought the 360 originals on the store they were advertised with Online support, but now that doesn't function contrary to the terms of my purchase.

Can I sue?

 

Green should be legal. Usually, "common industrial practices and standards" replace the law whenever specific aspects are not explicitely specified. And usuallly, whenever a software or hardware product is not sold anymore its' support can cease as well.

 

As for the orange part that wouldn't be legal. You can sue MS for that at least in the EU.

Since PS3 phat is being discontinued and it's not being sold anymore, the system that features installing other OS then it seems that it is pretty much legal doesn't it?

 

phat and slim (lol) are both declinations of the same architecture and have the same compatibilities and claims.

 

They'll live together and die together.



Wyrdness on 03 April 2010
NoCtiS_NoX said:
fighter said:
Xero said:
Okay then so why can't, in Europe... I sue microsoft because I can't play online on my original Xbox? I want to play Conker Reloaded but I can't anymore. Plus when I bought the 360 originals on the store they were advertised with Online support, but now that doesn't function contrary to the terms of my purchase.

Can I sue?

 

Green should be legal. Usually, "common industrial practices and standards" replace the law whenever specific aspects are not explicitely specified. And usuallly, whenever a software or hardware product is not sold anymore its' support can cease as well.

 

As for the orange part that wouldn't be legal. You can sue MS for that at least in the EU.

Since PS3 phat is being discontinued and it's not being sold anymore, the system that features installing other OS then it seems that it is pretty much legal doesn't it?

Doesn't work that way here in the EU as they both still catogorized under the same PS3 registration regardless of model, discontinuation would mean dropping PS3 support altogether and concentrating on it's successor.