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[nintendoman58]

I'm not sure how I feel about this...

Depending on how this goes, Microsoft may be really angry at E3. Or sad.

 

[drexplora]

didn't think things could get more juicy for Microsoft!

 

[Delusibeta]

didn't think things could get more juicy for Microsoft!

The last week has served more Microsoft juice than a juice bar, and now we're getting a side order of horse shit to finish.

 

[syko de4d]

So i go to sleep now and hope i will read some super awesome leaks when i wake up. Yeahe i am a bad person :lol

 

[toddhunter]

I know just the guys

 

[Roo]

Hey if you're gonna be locked up for a long time might as well go out with a bang. Microsoft wants to make this guy disappear. They're probably going to succeed. Might as well do as much as you can before it happens.

My thougths exactly..
I mean, the guy has the fucking FBI on his back already... there's nothing left to lose

 

[GenericBadGuy]

I think all of us here like the vidjagames, but I don't understand asking for more jail time or whatnot over a videogame console.

 

[spuit*11]

So he needs to connect to his server every 24 hours?....

BAM, there it is.

I like the fact that he's playing chicken with his own DA, the FBI and a multi-billion dollar multinational corporation. He's got some brass nuts.

 

[bon]

Not sure how he can make Xbox One look any worse than it already does.

 

[fred]

how can someone so smart be so...stupid?

I thought exactly the same thing about the PS3 hackers that had their homes raided by the police and who were facing legal action from Sony...haven't these Muppets heard of proxies..? Lol.

 

[Folstern]

Just what do you think you're doing, Dae?

 

[BronsonLee]

This ends well...

 

[linkboy]

E3 games

Exactly, MS is Kinectifying everything.

The next Halo will use the engine from Fable: The Journey. Control Master Chief in a brand new way using the power of Kinect.

The next Gears of War will be played similar to Kinect Star Wars.

Forza will be played by the player holding an invisible steering wheel (or a Mario Kart Wii Wheel, making it the first console to use another console's peripheral) and you control the car by turning your hands like a steering wheel.

The sad thing is that all of that is something I could see MS doing.

 

[killer rin]

He's fucked. Literally.

 

[Conciliator]

This is ridiculous but also kind of cool.

 

[Shalashaska161]

So i go to sleep now and hope i will read some super awesome leaks when i wake up. Yeahe i am a bad person :lol

Me too man. I'm here for the drama.

 

[Epic Drop]

Color me interested!

 

[Rebel Leader]

why not now?

 

[Eusis]

So what's the worst that could happen if he does release them?
-They arrest him
-He releases all the info.
-Info eventually becomes outdated as years pass.

What's the worst thing that they could be hiding, really? A few upcoming games, engineering documents, some internal notes? Unless they're secretly pressing discs using blue whale cyst extract or something, I can't think of anything that wouldn't die down quickly as new controversies erupt elsewhere.

The keys to the system.

Except if you REALLY wanted to harm them with that you'd release it post-launch when they can't change it.

 

[Jake Tower]

Superdae, was getting caught part of your plan?

 

[BobTheFork]

Wasn't this arrogant shitwich and swore the DRM rumors were laughable.

 

[malfcn]

Can't Twitter just block his account?

 

[OldAsUrSock]

This can be a big loss to Microsoft and Dae depending on the information that could get released.

 

[chubigans]

For those wondering, here's the info he's gotten right and wrong-


Given to Kotaku-

+Kinect required to function
+Kinect always on, always functioning
+Mandatory Installs
+Multi function apps, able to load during gameplay
+No major changes to controller


Posted on his Twitter-

+The names of the start/back buttons have been changed.
-MS will allow used games just like the 360, but Sony won't.
-Xbone will be more powerful than the PS4. ("Buy a Durango and you won't end up with crap.")
-Xbone doesn't require an online connection, but the PS4 likely requires it.
-Basically anything bad about the Xbone was refuted and attributed to the PS4



So basically, his Twitter record is terrible, but the info he gave Kotaku ended up being pretty legit.

My opinion: he knew stuff, and anything he didn't know he pretended he did. So I don't know what to think.

 

[Horseticuffs]

I think all of us here like the vidjagames, but I don't understand asking for more jail time or whatnot over a videogame console.

That's what I don't get. These guys are ruining THE REST OF THEIR LIVES just to make people on message boards freak the fuck out. I mean don't think I'm not grateful for the shitshow, but I'm glad I'm just a nobody.

Unveiling MS's dirty laundry for the world to see isn't exactly proving that some huge food megacorp is turning children from third world countries into chow for the wealthy. Basically what I'm saying is making the world aware of Gears of War 5 doesn't make you Wikileaks, so wtf are these nerds doing all this for?!

 

[MYE]

lol

I LOVE shit like this

 

[opticalmace]

Just what do you think you're doing, Dae?

Well played.

 

[Tuck]

Threatening the FBI seems like a really stupid (and immature) thing to do.

 

[artist]

I'm sure he's given the info to other people who are also instructed to release it. No way he only has it in one place.

And they'd be willing to set themselves up? Pretty sure his "contacts" are now not even going to bother touching his calls with a 10ft pole.

 

[Clevinger]

hm

 

[SatelliteOfLove]

LOL
This is so stupid.

This will turn out to be, once the theft-of-consumers-rights is behind us (I hope), the funniest, grandest console transitions in history.

 

[Polishin8r]

I LOL'd

happy to make fellow Gafers lol

 

[antitrop]

So basically, his Twitter record is terrible, but the info he gave Kotaku ended up being pretty legit.

My opinion: he knew stuff, and anything he didn't know he pretended he did. So I don't know what to think.

Sounds like the stuff he got right was all writing on the wall anyway, probably just informed guesses. I think this man is all smoke and mirrors.

And a complete fucking moron that is so full of himself he lives in la-la land where he think possessing "Top Secret info about the Xbox One" is some kind of leverage or bargaining chip against the FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION OF THE UNITED STATES.

 

[Cidd]

So what happens if he gets arrested, then the secrets are in the open?

Could he be charged for that as well?

I don't see this ending well if he does.

 

[Respawn]

 

[IHaveIce]

For those wondering, here's the info he's gotten right and wrong-


Given to Kotaku-

+Kinect required to function
+Kinect always on, always functioning
+Mandatory Installs
+Multi function apps, able to load during gameplay
+No major changes to controller


Posted on his Twitter-

+The names of the start/back buttons have been changed.
-MS will allow used games just like the 360, but Sony won't.
-Xbone will be more powerful than the PS4. ("Buy a Durango and you won't end up with crap.")
-Xbone doesn't require an online connection, but the PS4 likely requires it.
-Basically anything bad about the Xbone was refuted and attributed to the PS4



So basically, his Twitter record is terrible, but the info he gave Kotaku ended up being pretty legit.

My opinion: he knew stuff, and anything he didn't know he pretended he did. So I don't know what to think.

Huh interesting, yeah I wanted to say he was an idiot and xbox fanboy who got most of his shit wrong, but it seems he only defended MS at twitter and the info he gave to outlets turned out real.

Interesting.


Nothing will happen out of this.

 

[Killthee]

For those wondering, here's the info he's gotten right and wrong-


Given to Kotaku-

+Kinect required to function
+Kinect always on, always functioning
+Mandatory Installs
+Multi function apps, able to load during gameplay
+No major changes to controller


Posted on his Twitter-

+The names of the start/back buttons have been changed.
-MS will allow used games just like the 360, but Sony won't.
-Xbone will be more powerful than the PS4. ("Buy a Durango and you won't end up with crap.")
-Xbone doesn't require an online connection, but the PS4 likely requires it.
-Basically anything bad about the Xbone was refuted and attributed to the PS4



So basically, his Twitter record is terrible, but the info he gave Kotaku ended up being pretty legit.

So I don't know what to think.

Added to OP. Thanks.

 

[CorrisD]

I'm kind of hoping something comes of this if only to see the drama unfold if there was something even worse than everything else MS have told us about the Xbone.

Probably would just be future games and ideas that they would end up revealing but don't want to yet, can you imagine if everything from MS E3 and more future info got ruined a couple weeks in advance after years of planning, the fallout, I wouldn't want it to happen but it would just be something else to watch.

 

[Barack Lesnar]

What is there left to reveal, anyway? Only thing I can think of (or care about) is unannounced games.

 

[Zombie James]

Not a bad track record at all, minus the Twitter deflecting.

 

[Tan]

What is there left to reveal, anyway? Only thing I can think of (or care about) is unannounced games.

Yeah I'm curious myself. And especially what's left to reveal that could be used as a threat?

 

[Kainazzo]

The keys to the system.

Except if you REALLY wanted to harm them with that you'd release it post-launch when they can't change it.

True, I'd considered that. I wonder if MS learned something from Sony and developed a more modular way to change keys from their end, perhaps even through a silent update.

I expect dedicated hackers to always be able to completely take the thing apart; it's just a matter of how easy it is for people like us.

 

[antitrop]

Yeah I'm curious myself. And especially what's left to reveal that could be used as a threat?

There is nothing short of Microsoft's plans for world domination that the FBI would give a fuuuuuuuuuck about.

 

[BlazingDarkness]

This guy is full of shit.
What else can he even divulge?

 

[Tan]

There is nothing short of Microsoft's plans for world domination that the FBI would give a fuuuuuuuuuck about.

Obviously. But in his nutcase-mind what qualifies is probably very different.

 

[Killthee]

Sounds like the stuff he got right was all writing on the wall anyway, probably just informed guesses. I think this man is all smoke and mirrors.

And a complete fucking moron that is so full of himself he lives in la-la land where he think possessing "Top Secret info about the Xbox One" is some kind of leverage or bargaining chip against the FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION OF THE UNITED STATES.

IIRC, he was the one who sent Kotaku/VGLeaks the SDK documentation which outlined the stuff he got right.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=526464

 

[Dlacy13g]

Superdae is an idiot, listening to his interview with Gamertag radio made me realize quickly how short of a full deck he is. Even funnier is him thinking that MS has a say in what the FBI will or will not do.

 

[@MUWANdo]

Maybe this has already been addressed, but, what's to stop Twitter just axing his account between now and then?

 

[antitrop]

This guy is such a pathetic wannabe Pirate Bay/Kim Dotcom. Fightin' against the man! and shit. Just pathetic.

 

[Kurdel]

Leave it to a nerd to set up a supervillain type doomsday countdown.