You're picking fights. MS started that war with COD and the early DLC to the Xbox 360.  Joe was right and he owns both next gen MS and Sony consoles. He's getting Tomb Raider anyway, but he'd rather play it on PC. This is his first gen owning a Sony console and even he has to admit Microsoft plays around too much with gamers. Most of his rants this gen have been about MS since the start because MS is acting like a true anti-consumer company. They just can't help themselves.

Spencer had to clear the air today that Rise of the Tomb Raider is a timed exclusive. This means they needed a game to use to compete against Uncharted because they have nothing to combat against it. The way they worded it was wrong like it was a true exclusive and when MS says exclusive its always suspect because they are always screwing over gamers just to measure up to the competition.

Who am I picking a fight with? You say the strangest things sometimes...

Who´s worse, the starting a war or the one maintaining it? But that might be a topic for another thread. I personally don´t have a problem with MS or Sony doing these delas. I annoyed the hell out of me when Sony basically bought timed exclusivity to alot of games during the Saturn days but in hindsight, I completely understand why they did it.

With the Destiny DLC, as I understand it, some content will be locked WITHIN the DLC we on the XBox side buy for a full year. That is actually a company (Sony), paying another company (Activision) to prevent consumers that buy a product to even get the full product. I have personally never heard of such a thing and seems like the next "dirty" step that overshadows anything in moneyhatting of games, deals thet gets DLC to some ahead of others and so on.

It would be like bying a game but you won´t be able to play all the stages for a year because a competing company has payed the publisher to do so. I am actually amazed that it is even legal.

I love Microsoft for that :D It's always fun to watch things like that on YouTube :D And I really hope that Microsoft will make alot more of those exclusive deals, and trust me they will ;)

No offence to AJ, but he needs to stick with game reviews!

It boggles my mind to see some people are okay with PR/Cooperate BS lies.

If the gamer knows the truth there is no such thing as a "less insulting lie". Every lie will be met with the same level of criticism because the game knows it is a blatant lie. It's obviously not the best course of action. Because the best course of action for any franchise is getting it into more gamer hands. Even the most dense people will catch onto this and regard it as an insulting lie.

Lara is not pronounced 'Laura'.

Just saying.

Microsoft does it because they can't keep up with Sonys development cycle. If Sony started to moneyhat like MS they would become overwhelmed.

This is just not true ;)

Ok...show me how many games MS studios have made that can combat Sony's internal development. Its quite obvious and even the gaming media has long since questioned Microsofts development prowess. Microsoft supplements a lack of internal games by using timed exclusives and buying IP's from other developers. Halo, Gears & Rarewares titles were all purchased and not internally made by MS. Halo was purchased by MS after Apple unveiled Halo as the next great game to prove the power of the mac computer in the gaming space. That pissed off Steve Jobs to no end when he and Apple were funding it from the conceptual stages. Gears of War was bought by MS because they are creatively and financially dependent of the franchise and compensated Epic who wanted to work on other games. Microsoft also publishes outside companies games to keep them exclusive to their platforms and fill out their ranks since internally they aren't so strong. 

If MS was a creative company who truly endorsed creavity and expanding yourself as a company, Bungie would never have left them. They suck the creativity out of creative people. If a hot game comes out they buy it and send it through the ringer. Luckily their focus is multiplayer so the utility tends to trump. Sony doesnt just publish their games like MS, they make endorse development expansion into multiple teams for successful teams (Naughty Dog has been reward with expanded studios for success and so has Guerilla Games), help outside companies who are under contract to develop their games (Demon Souls, The Order, etc). Sony Japan and Sony Santa Monica could easily develop their own top notch AAA games but they are used to help development easier for other companies internally or not.

If Sony had bought last gen Bungie Halo and Destiny would've been out last gen.  They would've been onto their third or fourth franchise. Thats just an example of the creative difference between MS and Sony.