Killing_Joke
Member
You know what's funny. Now that it's confirmed that damn near everyone reads GAF including the higher ups, CBOAT still has the balls to dish out the dirt. God bless u sir.
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Xbone PR: the 60 Minute Family Plan Revelation
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FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
This is some straight up bullshit.. I hope this gets blown up too and Microsoft receives so much heat for it.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
They only lied and mislead. No big deal. Let's give them money now!
Flakster99
Member
Yeah, if you read between the lines you can {now} understand the meaning of his lingo better. This tells me he knew all along what was going on behind the scenes and simply blowing smoke up our asses.
Microsoft can't simply wrap this up in a box with a pretty pink bow and state we good now?, what a bunch of greedy, lying bastards.
Captain Tuttle
Member
good lord that's a terrible idea. some "sharing"
Ollie Pooch
In a perfect world, we'd all be homersexual
You don't see any issue at all with giving misleading interviews saying you can share your games without limits with 'family members' when it turns out to be a 60 minute trial period?
I wonder what it would take for defenders of Microsoft to actually go 'Hang on, these guys are full of shit.' Anything?
Read the OP. Especially Quadraphonic's post.
If they never fully explained it when it was their mainline feature, I doubt it.
Megadragon15
Member
No wonder why Microsoft was trying to muzzle Phil Harrison. This was exactly what he was saying early on about paying full price again.
Virtua Ben
Member
Everyone lies. Dumb comment. With that kind of logic you shouldn't trust Sony or Nintendo either. At all.
/conspiracy
What bugs me is that they were skirting around the issue. Sony was straightforward with their messaging, and albeit, they are also trending towards a digital future, but they were more compassionate the consumer. On the other hand MS just used and manipulated this "family sharing" thing to stop further negativity going their way. Big difference.
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
But you didn't need to subscribe to their online service for it... maybe.
Jake Tower
Banned
Makes sense. But fundamentally, MS never intended for the family share to be anything other than a demo.
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Deleted member 17706
Unconfirmed Member
I'm pretty sure this was one of the biggest reasons why they decided to do the 180 in the first place.
They knew that they had lead people on to believe that game sharing would be an awesome feature, and not some limited time demo bullshit. Tons of reporters and Microsoft "true believers" were spreading the word about how cool game sharing was going to be, and playing it up as the reason we should accept this DRM.
They would have been eviscerated if they carried on as they planned. Right around launch day the truth would come out and there would be mass returns. Mass complaints. Mass Microsoft hating in the press and media. They would be forever viewed as evil liars and never trusted again in the field of gaming. It would have buried the Xbox brand completely.
Flakster99
Member
I forgot about that little tidbit. You're right. We're going to have a lot of these a hah! moments when we realize all the double speak Microsoft were dishing out day after day, hiding in plain sight so to say, their ideas and plans.
Fuck owning an Xbox One, this is much more entertaining and it's practically free! I wonder what tomorrow will bring us!
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Just like when I said several months ago that no console platform holder would dare introduce DRM unilaterally because it would be suicide, and everyone agreed with me? MS sure showed me.
RomanticHeroX
Member
Yeah, this sounds about right. With as hostile and limiting as every other policy regarding the system was before yesterday, I don't see how anyone could've thought they were also just going to let up to 10 people have access to every game sold.
TheChewyWaffles
Member
Great post.
specialguy
Banned
Neuromancer
Member
Yeah I don't remember ever being too excited about it. Even with the initial news, only letting 2 people play at once was a big restriction. Of course I had no idea that this would be the real catch.
I don't understand why everyone is bitching and moaning over this. Isn't this how it works in all families?
Like when I asked my mom to borrow her car. She told me I could use it for 45 minutes. When my time was up, she told me to go to the car dealership if I wanted to keep driving.
You people love to whine.
Like when I asked my mom to borrow her car. She told me I could use it for 45 minutes. When my time was up, she told me to go to the car dealership if I wanted to keep driving.
You people love to whine.
perineumlick
Member
Lol ; )
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Deleted member 17706
Unconfirmed Member
Falcs
Banned
I can't believe people actually thought this whole family sharing thing was actually going to work the way they thought. Of course there was going to be a huge catch! I mean look at all the other bullshit MS was trying to screw gamers with, and then on the other hand they're going to let 10 people play a game through just 1 copy?
Gooby Pls... Way too good to be true.
Gooby Pls... Way too good to be true.
jamesinclair
Banned
All this is going to make a hell of a book
weekend_warrior
Banned
CBOAT said the DRM stuff was worse then people knew.
CBOAT said:
Maybe he was referring to this? Or are there even worst facets that MS didn't tell people?
That's you're not allowed to borrow from a library.
EleventhDoctor
Banned
All hail CBOAT! Our hero!
ThisWreckage
Banned
I don't see how anyone can take their word for anything at the moment. There's always a catch.
Yeah.
Imagine if your brother bought Forza Motorsport 5 and it showed up in your 'family' library. You'd be more enticed to try it out.
Maybe they'll go back to a windows 7 thing instead of the "hey lets force all software that runs on Windows to be sold only through our shitty store" plan, of which Windows 8 is phase one. Won't happen, but would be nice.
Neuromancer
Member
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thetrin
Hail, peons, for I have come as ambassador from the great and bountiful Blueberry Butt Explosion
This seems like a calculated retreat so they can regroup and introduce something more "reasonable".
Xbox One by Dummies.
Jesus, does Microsoft have any clue what people want anymore? I can't believe they thought this tradeoff for DRM would be fine for consumers because they thought it was cool. WTF has been going on at this company for the last few years with W8, WP8, Xbox One all looking like bombs.
Paladin CL
Member
I knew it was crazy to let 10 people play for 1 person who bought it. We didnt lose anything good, the feature is pretty lame, even on paper when its completely explained.