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Metallicube on 07 June 2013

Are we seriously comparing a video game message board to a gaming console?

Sheesh, I really need to leave this site for awhile... -_- My brain hurts.



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binary solo on 07 June 2013
J_Allard said:
binary solo said:
JayWood2010 said:

Shhhh, JayWood is back for a short period ;)

Listen, I get it guys, you don't like the Xbox One and you hate things about it.  I'm cool with that, but I find it very ironic that the people complaining about Xbox One having to access the internet once every 24 hours are also frequent forum visitors.  I mean apparently it is also rather bs that we need access to the internet to post on this very site.  I can't think of the last time that I have not had access to the internet for 24 hours.  But hey, if you really can't then just don't buy it, but by commenting on an internet site is kind of ironic.

I am not trying to justify the Xbox One for you guys after all it is your own opinion(Don't like it, don't buy it), but I do enjoy the irony although Im sure I will have a few people to say how dumb I am for making this thread.

Despite this thread already being far too popular than it deserves I feel it's my duty to also chime in and say what a stupid argument this is. Besides being a really dumb basis on which to criticise people who come on to VGC to criticise Xbone for it's 24hour phone home, it's actually damaging to the Xbone fans' cause.

If Xbone fans are reduced to throwing out ridiculous non-sequiturs as ways to defend dumb decisions MS has made about the way Xbone will work then they've lost the hearts and minds race before it really even got started.

Come up with some real reasons for why 24hr phone home is an innocuous impost, and that it is actually of benefit to the future of console gaming and then we'll be able to have a discussion.

Of course if Jaywood is actually stealth trolling the Xbone by putting forward the stupidest possible defence of the 24hrly phone home in order to highlight was a bad thing it is then well done I say. A better stealth trolling is hard to imagine.

I think his point is more along the line of the people here bitching about needing to connect to the Internet once a day are people who are on this forum for hours every day and thus aren't affected in any way by the Xbone needing to connect to home base once every 24 hours.

Yeah, God forbid that people should argue on behalf of those who actually are disadvantaged by this policy, and on the basis that it's just a wrongheaded policy irrespective of whether people have a fast and reliable internet service.



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mantlepiecek on 07 June 2013

This is one of the most ridiculous and stupid comparisons I have seen since that dumb guy at MS who got fired compared electricity to Internet connection.



Jaywood2010 on 07 June 2013
mantlepiecek said:
This is one of the most ridiculous and stupid comparisons I have seen since that dumb guy at MS who got fired compared electricity to Internet connection.


Not sure how many times i mentioned this, but NOT a comparison.  At least a dozen is my guess.




       

the2real4mafol on 07 June 2013

Except we are not subject to anti-customer policies here. We don't have to be online once every 24 hours



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mantlepiecek on 07 June 2013

Looking at more comments, it is clear people don't understand what is DRM either. Needing internet connection is not DRM. You would expect people to know that.

Not to mention the fact that a lot of people in here are NOT 24 hours online. That means they do take breaks, which could have been because their internet connection is unstable. You never know. It is ridiculous to assume either way.

People just don't learn from Simcity, Diablo at ALL. If MS's servers themselves pose some problems you wouldn't be able to play an offline game at all. Which means a lot to people even with a good internet connection.



mantlepiecek on 07 June 2013
JayWood2010 said:
mantlepiecek said:
This is one of the most ridiculous and stupid comparisons I have seen since that dumb guy at MS who got fired compared electricity to Internet connection.


Not sure how many times i mentioned this, but NOT a comparison.  At least a dozen is my guess.

There is no irony if there is no comparison.



Jaywood2010 on 07 June 2013
mantlepiecek said:
JayWood2010 said:
mantlepiecek said:
This is one of the most ridiculous and stupid comparisons I have seen since that dumb guy at MS who got fired compared electricity to Internet connection.


Not sure how many times i mentioned this, but NOT a comparison.  At least a dozen is my guess.

There is no irony if there is no comparison.

The irony is that the people who are complaining are people who has access to the internet on a regular basis rather than people who don't.  We have had one person come in here and say "Hey, I have a legit issue to be upset."  Besides that one person, nothing.  The people who have real reasons to complain are the ones who was intending to buy the X1 and does not have internet.  Those people we will likely hear from after the X1 releases rather than people who are on forums where probabl 95-98% of them have internet that they can access daily at home.

I will say again though, not a comaprison.  Ironic situation but not a comparison.




       

mantlepiecek on 07 June 2013
JayWood2010 said:
mantlepiecek said:
JayWood2010 said:
mantlepiecek said:
This is one of the most ridiculous and stupid comparisons I have seen since that dumb guy at MS who got fired compared electricity to Internet connection.


Not sure how many times i mentioned this, but NOT a comparison.  At least a dozen is my guess.

There is no irony if there is no comparison.

The irony is that the people who are complaining are people who has access to the internet on a regular basis rather than people who don't.  We have had one person come in here and say "Hey, I have a legit issue to be upset."  Besides that one person, nothing.  The people who have real reasons to complain are the ones who was intending to buy the X1 and does not have internet.  Those people we will likely hear from after the X1 releases rather than people who are on forums where probabl 95-98% of them have internet that they can access daily at home.

I will say again though, not a comaprison.  Ironic situation but not a comparison.

There are plenty of people with legit reasons to be upset. So many have voiced it already throughout so many threads.

It is not just about a person's internet connection. It is also about MS's servers, and for some people it is about the control MS has on your gaming. It is unnecessary and will unnecessarily create problems down the line.



DigitalDevilSummoner on 07 June 2013

JayWood2010 said:


I will say again though, not a comaprison.  Ironic situation but not a comparison.

Yes it is.

MS wants to use my connection without offering anything, that is what we call a freeloader.