SpaceInsomniac

So, let me get this chain of events straight...

- Rumors surface about Xbox One being restrictive when it comes to used games, and requiring an internet connection.

- Microsoft employee tells people always online is coming, and people who don't like that should just "deal with it."

- Microsoft employee is fired for those twitter comments.

- Microsoft reveals their new console, says nothing about restrictions during reveal.

- Microsoft suggests some restrictions in various interviews following conference.

- Microsoft backpedals from comments, says nothing is official yet.

- Two weeks after the Xbox One reveal--and four days from E3--Microsoft confirms nearly every one of the rumored restrictions.

- Forum poster A posts that they still have time to change their polices before E3.

- Forum poster B posts that they had two weeks of a massive backlash, and they still just confirmed everything, so why would they change anything four days from E3.

And WHO do you think sounds "desperate" about this?

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And speaking of "Are you seriously getting desperate enough to just post YouTube celebrities videos about this?" How about another You Tube video that's discussing this anti-consumer bullshit. You might recognize these guys:

Ryan: "I'm shaking the camera's head at this."

Vinny: "That's fucked."

Jeff: "That is fucked"

Patrick: "[Microsoft is] ruining everyone else's experience, or making it difficult for them."

Patrick: "It's all bullshit."

Patrick: "Looking forward to having all these questions clarified at the interviews I no longer have with Microsoft executives at E3."

Vinny: "I want to be able to loan stuff." "Let me manage my own rights. That is the fight that really needs to happen." "This is kind of like my nightmare situation where this is benefiting nobody but publishers and Gamestop."

But yeah, clearly those guys are all just a bunch of "fanboys."

No, but my fucking property rights are serious business. If blu-ray or even DVD developers tried this same thing, I'd be just as upset.

If you want to be told what you are and are not allowed to do with your own property, then buy whatever you want. I've spent a lot of money on my 360, and I don't even own a PS3, but if Sony is even slightly less restrictive about this sort of thing, I'm buying a PS4 and I won't look back.

This is trying to force a connected world before we are ready, and--more importantly--before getting rid of physical property. It's a game company basically saying "Seeing as we're not to the point where physical discs are no longer needed, we'll just essentially invalidate the intentions behind property laws."

And yes, even Steam has an offline mode, so to be this restrictive is completely unnecessary, and anti-consumer. If Sony does the exact same thing, then I guess console gaming itself will just be dead to me.

I would say that I normally am a fairly classy poster--at least in my own estimation--but I just felt that this news warranted an especially crass response. I'm also not fond of scatological humor, but I wasn't trying to be humorous, and I don't find having my property rights violated to be the least bit amusing.

Not allowed to loan a game to a friend.

Not allowed to rent games.

Not allowed to sell your games directly to another person.

Allowed to sell your games to a store, as long as they operate through Microsoft.

Allowed to play offline, but must connect ever 24 hours.

Not allowed to keep the console offline and play games.

Allowed to watch TV and video discs offline.

Allowed to give a game to a friend, but only once.

Not allowed to give a game to a friend if the publisher does't want that happening.

Allowed to "pause" Kinect, but not turn it off.

Not allowed to disconnect Kinect.

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So Microsoft, If I need to take a shit, do I have to ask for your permission to do that too?

...third party publishers can enable you to give games to friends. Loaning or renting games won’t be available at launch, but we are exploring the possibilities with our partners.

And I'm exploring the possibilities of you going and fucking yourselves.

If Sony doesn't pull this bullshit, or even if they don't require an internet connection, they're who I'm going with in this upcoming console generation.

A couple of things here.

1) I don't care. "Graphics" can consist of geometry, texture resolution, frame rate, shadows, physics, resolution, and loads of other things. If a game developer wants to lower resolution to maintain a better frame rate, or better physics, or whatever the trade off, then that should be their call to make. Call of Duty 4 and onward were massive hits, in part due to the way the games feel, and it wouldn't have been possible to get that unusually smooth 60 frames per second gameplay if MS was forcing everyone to use 720p.

2) If you don't like the thread, don't post, flag the post, or PM a moderator. I think the personal attacks in this thread are far worse than some bitching about Microsoft, and I completely disagree with the original post.

I was agreeing with you.

They already did "Fantasia: Music Evolved" in the late 80s. It was called "DTV" and it was fantastic:

And I do like "fun." but they are NOT the classical music of today. I don't even know where to begin with how stupid that statement is, but I'd probably start with the word "classical".

Then why not say, "that's what he said," instead of a phrase that has the word "homo" in it? And as said later in the thread, "phrasing" eliminates any sort of gender or sexual preference specificity, and still relates the message "I just said something that could be interpreted as something sexual".

Although people DO say "no homo" when they're referring to things that can be stereotypically gay, you're technically correct with the rest of what you said. But would you take offense to the term being used to conform to stereotypes? If someone said "I'm going to the George Michael concert tonight--no Homo--because I won free tickets," would you really get offended by that, or would you just shrug it off as humor?

Either way, I do still feel that the term is almost always used in a pejorative sense, and I do still feel that it's quite disrespectful.

If you really think about it, the letter H totally looks like two dudes touching their penises together.