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Where we're MS fans for the last 3 years

Non-existant, XBO made new fans 12 4.55%
 
Hibernating, XBO made fans crazy again 20 7.58%
 
Hibernating, 360 was dead, so fans were away 40 15.15%
 
Busy, playing Kinect 17 6.44%
 
Busy, playing PS3 24 9.09%
 
Busy, playing Wii/WiiU 9 3.41%
 
Always there, just waiting for XBO 39 14.77%
 
From Microsoft Land (it's real!) 18 6.82%
 
Paid to advertise? 52 19.70%
 
I DON'T KNOW? 33 12.50%
 
Total:264
sales2099 on 06 December 2013
Runa216 said:
I think that Microsoft fans kinda went quiet when PS3 started dominating them in sales and exclusives; now that it's a new gen and a new opportunity to come out on top, so the fanatics come out of the woodwork.

Don't want to point fingers, but Xbox Fans got pretty hardcore when the Xbox 360 launched, and remained bad till about 2008 or 2009 when the PS3 started to really be a threat. MAybe there's an issue with them being a little too confident? Either way, new generation, new opportunities to belittle the competition. That's my theory. Will remain that way till the 'winner' of the gen is decided upon.


To be fair, that was a response to being treated like crap in the PS2 days, despite the console being better built in every way. Now Sony fans champion hardware, history is a cruel mistress.



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Zekkyou on 06 December 2013
Wright said:

I joined VGC in 2013, that's why.

 

But I'm an Xbox fan, not a Microsoft fan!

And why i like you instead of wanting to punch you in the face :D

Seriously though, anyone who is a fan of a corporate identity has some really odd priorities.



Wright on 06 December 2013
Zekkyou said:
Wright said:

I joined VGC in 2013, that's why.

 

But I'm an Xbox fan, not a Microsoft fan!

And why i like you instead of wanting to punch you in the face :D

Seriously though, anyone who is a fan of a corporate identity has some really odd priorities.


If you are as pretty as your avatar, I don't mind you punching me in the face ô_o



Turkish on 06 December 2013

PlayStation Conversion Program dropouts who were busy playing PS3 exclusives since 2010 but switched camps back to Xbox after Xbone reveal.



SxyxS on 06 December 2013

well,there was the big bang,
than this galaxy
and inside this galaxy this solar system
and inside this solar system there was this planet
and after the dinosaurs died Prooving the ultimate natural law "only the strong survive"
the weak hairy ape lost his hair and turned red,white ,black & yellow
and some of the became nintendo fans,others sony fans and some microsoft fans(how that exacly happened?Have you heard about the missing link?it's still missin
or as Jung said:
The missing link between apes and humans is US.



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S.T.A.G.E. on 06 December 2013

When Microsoft buys games to keep them away from their competitors you cannot say their library isnt impressive or make moves like remaking Killer Instinct. If were comparing first party, they dont command true loyalty like Nintendo or Sony.



Michael-5 on 06 December 2013
STRYKIE said:
Michael-5 said:

Sony's okay, but not good, I read the original fat PS3's have between a 10-22% fail rate, which is decently high. I owned a PS ever since the PS1, and every system has broken on me once. However to be fair, a typical 360 lasts me 1-2 years. A Typical playstation lasts me 4-8 years. A typical Nintendo is forever (still yet to break one). Wright is right, if you really cared about reliability, Nintendo would always be your first choice.

I've had hardware failures with the Wii (more so than the PS3 or 360, oddly enough) and SNES. The NES is known for the 72-pin fault. The only one that didn't have a unanimous hardware fault was the N64, and that's most likely because it didn't have any moving parts whatsoever.

But hey, I guess a system needs to spell out the specific error for you on a silver platter before it's deemed unreliable. *shrugs*

It's very very rare to have hardware issues with Nintendo products, but not impossible. There is still a 0.2% fail rate, you just got real unlucky and got that 1 Wii in 500 that was defective. You don't need to be able to identify a specific error, just need to read and understand statistics, Nintendo systems can fail too, it's just super rare.

I had a close friend who used to repair 6th gen consoles (and then 7th gen ones), and he told me in 5 years of working, he only ever saw 1 Wii come in, and it was because a kid chucked it at the wall, and it physically opened up.



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Akvod on 06 December 2013

Yes, Xbox fans are being silenced.

Just like conservatives are being silenced by the "liberal media".



There is a war against Xbox, just like the war against Christmas.



Michael-5 on 06 December 2013
sales2099 said:
Michael-5 said:
sales2099 said:
 

Now I take offense to that. As I am part of the lore fans, not the multiplayer bros fan group. The meta suffered because they rushed the MP, NOT the campaign

Halo 4 was by far at its best with the campaign story. It is the most emotional Halo story for one, which actually explores the relationship between Master Chief and Cortana. Master Chief finally gets back his sense of humanity with Cortanas death. The Forerunners are back from hiding, the political structure with all former Covenant races is in disarray, human rebellion in the colonies is resurging, and there is the inevitable return of the flood/precursors (all previous flood in games were "outbreaks" and not the actual impending invasion. Halo 4 ties in with the Forerunner trilogy novels and graphic novels.

You are either a MP fan of Halo, in which case you are excused. Otherwise, I hereby classify you as the many "fickle" fans who sorta like Halo but didn't actually get invested in it. Shame

I disagree, the game score suffered because of boring enemy types and weapons in the game. Literally the most commin enemy in the game is a dog, and all the for-runner weapons are clones of covanent/human weapons.

Halo 4 felt like a kids game with that villain. Back during Halo 1-3 Master Cheift was only a solder, the last of the elites, leading a desparate battle against the flood/covanent. Halo 4 feels like some lame villain, who was never even mentioned in Halo 1-3, has become some odd super threat.

Covanent classes were always in disarray, an Elite is a playable character in Halo 2 . Cortana became very emotional in Halo 4, they made her almost human, which was just really annoying.

The Didact was mentioned in Halo 3, and in novels that predated Halo 4. You'd know this if you actually invested in the story. The Foreunner weapons were similar to Covenant/Human weapons but still offered strategic differences all the same. It is also because the Covenant have modelled their weapons/ships after Foreunner bluprints/relics, and the Humans were implanted with a "geas" from the Librarian 100 000 years ago to subtely progress the way they have been technologically speaking. So it goes beyond coincidental similarities, the lore explains why. You'd also know this too. I did agree that the enemy types weren't more varied. but then again so was the origional Halo, and that game turned out all right :)

The MP had left out modes present in Reach. That is why the score suffered....it is pretty universal that the MP brought it down.

I can't speak for you thinking the Didact was like a kids game villian. That is just perspective that depends on your personal level of outlook and bias. He came across as bitter and had the righteous purpose that the novels set him up as. During Halo 1-3 Master Chief was NOT the last spartan. There were others in the lore at the same time....even during Halo 4 there are still a few Spartan IIs still alive.

Do you always expect the humans to be fighting a losing battle? Because the point of the lore is for Humans to ascend and take "the mantle", and essentially be the caretakers of all living life in the galaxy liek the Forerunners were before them. They can't do this if they are always near-extinction. The story must move forward. Humans have some breathing room, but still have a ways to go......that is where the Didact steps in. He was the Foreunner military commander that doesn't think humans deserve the mantle. He has a personal vendetta against them, he has more then sufficient motivation and power to be the new villian, to prevent humanity from attaining the mantle and try to make them extinct too. You'd know this if you kept up with the lore.

SInce the Covenant broke up, each race essentially fends for themselves and there is no locked alliances between any race anymore. This is not the same as how they were Halo 1-3. Your dismissal of Cortana seals it that you are just another fickle Halo fan. It even explains that her rampancy is what makes her more emotional/human rather then a AI in function. It's her unrestrained emotion that teaches Master Cheif his own humanity, rather then just being a pure soldier following orders without question.

Im sorry, im done here, but just wanted to say your opinion is wrong in that it is ill informed :P

My opinion is wrong? I thought Halo 4 was terrible compared to 1-3, and I hated the plot. How can what I like or dislike be wrong? You spent the entire game shooting dogs in the head, how is that fun? All the forrunner weapons too, are clones of Covanent weapons. You're making an excuse for why the weapons are so similar, it's still boring that way.

As for the Didact, they never mentioned that he was some super powered playbook villain in Halo 3, and who cares if it's in the comics after Halo 3, like I said Halo 3 was where it stopped being good. 343 is just not as good of a developer as Bungie.

My dismissal of Cortana seals it that I am just another fickle Halo fan? So basically, you're saying that because I don't agree with you, I'm wrong huh?

Sorry, but I'm just telling you that when you said people who critisized Halo 4 criticized it for it's multipler alone is wrong. How is shooting dogs in single player fun? Who the heck designed that enemy type? How are dogs with glowing heads scary? I thought Halo 4 was pretty bad as a single player game. It really had a disney touch to it with the Didac, and those damn dog enemy types. You can clearly tell in Halo 4 that the target audience is teenagers, that wasn't the case with Halo 1-3.

Just as an example, in Halo 1 there were long gaps where you just walked and explored. The forrunner structures on your first Halo were interesting, and there were long gaps without enemies and large areas, which gave the game such a mysterious vibe. In Halo 4 everything is explained to you, and having a clear cut evil villain is just silly.



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Runa216 on 06 December 2013
sales2099 said:
Runa216 said:
I think that Microsoft fans kinda went quiet when PS3 started dominating them in sales and exclusives; now that it's a new gen and a new opportunity to come out on top, so the fanatics come out of the woodwork.

Don't want to point fingers, but Xbox Fans got pretty hardcore when the Xbox 360 launched, and remained bad till about 2008 or 2009 when the PS3 started to really be a threat. MAybe there's an issue with them being a little too confident? Either way, new generation, new opportunities to belittle the competition. That's my theory. Will remain that way till the 'winner' of the gen is decided upon.


To be fair, that was a response to being treated like crap in the PS2 days, despite the console being better built in every way. Now Sony fans champion hardware, history is a cruel mistress.

HAH!  Really?  back then, all I heard was "PS2 sucks because it doesn't have halo" for 5 years.  I didn't learn until later that the PS2 completely decimated the Xbox in sales; my Xbot friends all convinced me that the Xbox did better than the PS2 because of its more prominent ads.  

No joke. 

Back then, I never heard anyone saying "PS2 is better", the only fanboys I heard were Xbox fans screaming "Xbox is Better" and Nintendo fans whimpering, "The Gamecube is good, I swear!" My thoery?  PS fans were so assured of their own superiority that they didn't need to convince themselves or others that their console ruled.  Just like, back in the SNES days, I never remember the Super Nintendo fans shitting on Genesis fans.  Even now, I'm seeing a lot of "haaahaha, ps4 sucks, look at that <1% failure rate!" and when Xbone came out to similar number of failures, people like PEzus and other well-established playstation fans actually wished them luck in their replacements.  Or, when people started slamming Xbone, PS players basically debunked the myths, saying "when this happened to us, it was bullshit, I bet this is the same deal."  

I suppose confirmation bias and all that, but one can only report on what they see.  

That's not to say PS isn't without its terrible fans, but I see more aggression and anger on the Xbox side of things.  MAybe it's an american thing, since Microsoft is american and america is known for being more violent/angry than most first world countries.  I dunno.  All I know is that, in my experience, the worst fanboys are the Xbox and PC gamers (PC being the worst by far).  Nintendo fanboys tend to be quiet and defensive, Playstation gamers tend to be neutral, Xbox gamers aggressive, and PC gamers arrogant. 



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