i have seen you and other people do same to others

Thanks for the input, Jeff.

I just don't like what some of you are doing, Kowenicki is a guy that knows what he's talking when we have financial threads, and most of the time he gets too harsh critics because he says the truth. If he gets defensive is because lots of forum users don't like to read the truth, and try to kill the messenger. If I received the same bullying he gets, I'm sure that I would be much more defensive than him, and probably I would have been banned eons ago.

Re-read my original post, that put him on his crusade.

There is nothing at all there to get defensive about. No reason to bring up Sony. No reason to be all high and mighty "MS RULE!". I said nothing wrong, at all. He just didn't like someone bringing it up.

Carl, I'm not talking about you, or this thread in particular. I'm talking about the forum in general. It seems that as Kowenicki is the most visible MS fan here after Seece left, he's the target of some undeserved attacks every time he express his opinion on any matter. I wouldn't like a forum where you only have people defending two of the three companies because the fans of the third one leave due to harassment, and it has been happening here for some time.

If the guys that say the things we don't want to read leave, it doesn't mean that those things won't happen. It's much better if we have all the viewpoints, and not only one "truth", because then this forum will be like N4G, and that would be horrible.

You do the same, CGI, the difference is that you have a big number of users that have the same views that you have, but you tend to harass other users sometimes. The last few days you have been criticizing Kowen in several threads.

You have also got defensive lots of times, when people said some things about heavy rain, or when people say things about beyond or the last of us or Sony in general that you don't like. The truth is everyone get defensive, but we don't see it when we do. More people say it about Kowenicki because there are more people that don't agree with his opinions, so it's natural that more people call him out. If we had much more MS fans than Sony fans, I'm sure that guys like you would be the guys being pointed out instead of Kowenicki.

I'm telling it again, if you want a forum where no one says things you don't like, keep behaving the same way. I don't like that, I enjoy having different reasonable opinions, but I'm just one user of this forum and I'm not the one to say how this forum must be.

I'm not going to play semantics because English is not my native language, and I'm in clear adversity in this game. I just want to say that Kowen may have jumped too quick in this thread, but that doesn't mean he deserves what some of you are doing.

If you've been paying attention you will have noticed that kowenicki is absolutely revelling in sony's financial difficulties. Now that's fine if he wants to do that but don't expect sony fans to be extending any courtesies. He deserves all the grief he gets. (just speaking in general not necessarily about anyone in this thread) 

I think you got that one wrong.

The main point is that XBL userbase is still growing. It is just not growing as fast as it used to. Still more people are subscribing than unsubscribing, otherwise there would not be more users than last year. 

Anyway, It is summer time, without any big game releases. So a lot of people don't renew their subscriptions. Yet the number of users is still growing.
With Halo 4, CoD Black Ops 2, Forza Horizon, Boderlands 2, Medal of Honor there are a lot of multiplayer centric games coming out this holiday season. I think MS will report close to 50m XBL users at then end of the year. 25 million paying at least $50 for it per year - pushing the revenue with fees only to 1.25 billion USD per year. That is pretty awesome, isn't it?