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Lafiel on 15 June 2013
Nightwish224 said:
The other consoles will be hacked WAY before Xbox One. That's my prediction at least...

Even though MS painted a gigantic target on themselves ? I won't say the hacking community is "just", but those guys really seem to prefer ganging up on companies that "piss them off".

Technically the WiiU might afaik already be hacked, but the hack wasn't released to the public.



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DJEVOLVE on 15 June 2013
tracyllrkn said:
DJEVOLVE said:


Why not? Just make the others wait a month. They will still buy the game or go out and buy X1. Thats all EA would have to do. Just Release. 1-2 months earlier on the X1

Ok, but he said EXCLUSIVE, meaning not coming to PS4. They will lose sales not putting their games on PS4.


Meaning I have to eliberate all the different ways companies do Exclusives. Timed Exclusives, Map pack Exclusives.. Should I go on or is that sufficient enough for you?



Metallicube on 15 June 2013

Wow.. Is MS TRYING to become irrelivent in the console wars?



S.T.A.G.E. on 15 June 2013

Microsoft, suck my.....



tracyllrkn on 15 June 2013
DJEVOLVE said:
tracyllrkn said:
DJEVOLVE said:


Why not? Just make the others wait a month. They will still buy the game or go out and buy X1. Thats all EA would have to do. Just Release. 1-2 months earlier on the X1

Ok, but he said EXCLUSIVE, meaning not coming to PS4. They will lose sales not putting their games on PS4.


Meaning I have to eliberate all the different ways companies do Exclusives. Timed Exclusives, Map pack Exclusives.. Should I go on or is that sufficient enough for you?

WOW! You just said "Watch many publishers give exclusive games to MS." You didn't say anything being TIMED. At least type what you mean.



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Darth Tigris on 15 June 2013

If this causes the types of people that tend to get banned from stuff to not get an Xbox One, then it's already sounding MUCH better than the 360.



sth88 on 15 June 2013
Xen said:
sth88 said:
Xen said:
CDiablo said:
Same thing happens to any digital content if you get banned from Steam/Origin/PSN/Battle.Net. Im surprised how uninformed people are about "content licensing."

The difference is... that's digital content.

However, since a game on XB1 is nothing but an install disc, installing a game tied to only one XBL account, once it is banned, all your physical copies are also useless... or so it seems right now.

Steam has physical discs you can purchase, and once they are put in the PC they are required to be linked to your Steam account.  If you are banned on Steam, you lose access to that game, even though you still have the disc and all the game data is stored on that disc.  So no, it's not different.

Besides, I don't see why digital games should be held to a different standard than physical ones.  Games are games, regardless of their distribution; whether you downloaded it or bought a disc, the content of the game is still stored locally, in your hard drive or on your disc.   So it's either OK for a service to have this kind of provision in their ToS, or it's not.  It doesn't matter if it's Steam or Microsoft who does it; either it's acceptable for both of them, or it's acceptable for neither of them.

Because, y'know, they don't have to be installed and tied to an account to be useable? They have to be useable whenever, wherever. Like they've pretty much always have been. I didn't know steam sold physical copies and did this same bullshit with them, I admit that. But It's not OK on either. It's idiotic.

Finally!  Some consistency from someone!  Thank you!  You have no idea how refreshing it is to see this.  People have been SO unwilling to criticize Steam for having some of the same policies that they are criticizing Microsoft for now; they've just been bending over backwards to make sure Steam doesn't take any flak.  You and I are going to disagree on the standards we hold for digital vs. physical, but you've definitely earned my respect for being consistent in holding Steam and Microsoft to the same standard on how they handle physical discs.



Dark_Lord_2008 on 15 June 2013

When XBox One console sales are lagging way behind Wii U and PS4 after two years a rethink may be in order in regards to their short sighted greedy policies. Profit maximisation/anti-consumer policies do not work if you are not selling your product/service. This is just another reason to buy a PS4 or a Wii U instead of XBox One.



the_dengle on 15 June 2013

Microsoft, you keep finding new ways to suck. It's pretty entertaining.



DJEVOLVE on 15 June 2013
tracyllrkn said:
DJEVOLVE said:


Meaning I have to eliberate all the different ways companies do Exclusives. Timed Exclusives, Map pack Exclusives.. Should I go on or is that sufficient enough for you?

WOW! You just said "Watch many publishers give exclusive games to MS." You didn't say anything being TIMED. At least type what you mean.


Didn't think I had to.