Doug Heffernan
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Major Nelson: Why Im Excited about Online Gaming with Xbox One
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tinfoilhatman
all of my posts are my avatar
Doesn't really matter this guy could give hookers and piles of blow by the shovel full and it wouldn't make one bit of difference since he's a Microsoft spokes person on gaming.
LyleLanley
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What does this have to do with anything?
3rdamention
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He sounds pretty "supercharged" about it...
MAX PAYMENT
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I said the same thing about a Sony pr article and like 10 people jumped my shit.
*For sufficiently long definitions of "year"...
This has to do with what exactly?
You aren't a shill if you're openly employed by the company.
Marvel
could never
I never said anything of the sort!
All I currently get is abuse and I'm tired of it, fingers crossed these new featres for enforcement work.
LeeFowler.CU
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Yeah, for popular games you shouldn't really need asynchronous matchmaking, but for older or less popular games this could be great.
Kacho
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The Xbox will send you a notification when your match is ready. I see it as a nice to have feature.
blitzcloud
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I just think the wording of the title makes it look like there's any other emotion for him to have towards the product of the company he works for.
Also: template- epic skill... lol. I suppose it adds rap music and a huge-ass intro.
Sadly most don't realize/care.
PopcornMegaphone
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Man... this thread.
Are you really implying that people here are so colossally moronic that they need to be warned that a representative of a company - one whose job is to communicate with the public, even - has an incentive to focus on the positives of their company and downplay the negatives?
It is damn sad.
Phat Michael
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Its odd that people here think that if you work for a company, you cant say anything about that company and be trusted. Where do they expect announcements to come from in the first place?
TBH though i expected more memes, gifs and one line responses. There's only been a few so i guess we can be thankful for that. It is tiring wading through all the crap to get to the real discussion posts however.
TBH though i expected more memes, gifs and one line responses. There's only been a few so i guess we can be thankful for that. It is tiring wading through all the crap to get to the real discussion posts however.
Uh..
Basically.
The "blog post" in the OP is clearly a press released written by a marketing department and yet it is presented as if was written personally by "Major Nelson". It even features his genuine emotion reaction! How precious.
People aren't reacting because this press release exists, people are reacting because of the conceit of its presentation.
Phat Michael
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Because someone who worked for MS wrote it.
However, if it was a third party source, then they would be accused of being a MS shill.
Since he works for MS, then he is an MS Shill.
If it was written by a gaming magazine, then they would be on MS's payroll.
LeeFowler.CU
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You couldn't be more wrong.
How else can I increase my post count?
blitzcloud
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There's an option where it can work perfectly.
They show a real life situation where XB1 just turns into the best thing ever because of all the combined elements and we say: well that's nice.
Instead we got a bland article that essentially says nothing.
There's a difference between an advertisement and insight that may come in the form of an article.
Mass Effect
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Sounds pretty interesting.
Are they still keeping TrueSkill or are they doing away with that? I found that it never really worked, so I'm hoping that this new system will be more effective for matching you with people of your skill and play-style.
And about the matchmaking thing, Smart Match, that does sound pretty interesting, however do people really want to be trying to watch a movie or a TV show while they're playing games? Seems like it'd be better to focus on one of those things than overwhelming yourself doing that many things at once.
Are they still keeping TrueSkill or are they doing away with that? I found that it never really worked, so I'm hoping that this new system will be more effective for matching you with people of your skill and play-style.
And about the matchmaking thing, Smart Match, that does sound pretty interesting, however do people really want to be trying to watch a movie or a TV show while they're playing games? Seems like it'd be better to focus on one of those things than overwhelming yourself doing that many things at once.
I just don't comprehend how the article says nothing.
blitzcloud
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should have clarified: nothing new.
RedNumberFive
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It's more that he's a PR guy who spouts bullshit about "transistors in the clouds" and other such nonsense. If we had a nuts and bolts article from one of the Xbone's engineers then we wouldn't be having this conversation. Instead we have another disingenuous article from the man who brought us "have you seen Titanfall?".
dragonbane
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Article is alright, title is stupid. They could tone the self-championing down a little bit though...
just a helpful hint, pointing out their junior status is also looked down upon.
The Zune was amazing.
So prior to today you knew about the Enforcement United beta?
NullPointer
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Its a round-up of new Xbox features and improvements, some of which have gotten their own press in the past week or two.
That's what PR does. This is exactly the kind of info you provide a community you're responsible with engaging.
And some of it does look new to me.
Syphon Filter
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He was "old" when 360 launched. He is fine, i want him to stay.
Nothing new to you? Then don't post in the thread. I wasn't aware of the challenges and the enhanced reputation and enforcement. You knew about the beta for it?
gaming_noob
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They've talked about it before and it's only a slight improvement over their current "reputation" system.
weekend_warrior
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This person isn't even signed in.
Phat Michael
Banned
Do you really believe that? Any claims made would be pretty much met with the same responses we usually get in these threads - the standard memes, titanfall jokes, infinite power of the clouds, DRM comments and everything. Its honestly been the same way since the May reveal - any MS thread is pretty much 50% troll posts and memes. It hasnt gotten better at all.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
No shit.
I think the thread is more about the rest of the article. Come on people.
They basically said it's an overhaul, and will actually work this time.
Iced_Eagle
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If you've ever queued for an unpopular game mode or map in MM, it tends to take forever. Or what happens if 2 years from now I want to play some Forza 5, which won't have as big of a community? Hell, I recently played Shadowrun which came out in 2007. It still has people playing on 360 too. However, to get into a match in decent time you have to do a quick match, but what if I really only wanted to play a certain map? Then I could queue for it, and switch and play a few rounds of Poker Night at the Inventory or something.
Plus, they allow you to have more filters on your MM search, which will make it take longer. For example, let's say you want to play Call of Duty with only people who are in their 30's, speak English and want to play on map X with game mode Y (and now you're also no longer matchmade with people who have "bad" reputations). The more specific you get, the longer your match will generally take to find.
In the best case, MM is damn near instant, but if you only like to play a certain mode, then this makes it easier. Plus, we all know sometimes MM just takes forever (I play Dota 2 a lot, even though that's the #1 played on Steam it's not uncommon to have 4-5 minute matchmaking waits).
Another benefit is that if you're watching Netflix, I log in, invite you to a party to play some Halo 5, I can queue us up without you ever leaving your show. When the match is found, you accept and it brings you straight into the match without ever going into a menu yourself (I would do that as the party leader, or would queue it up from Smartglass).
there not that much to read. hes talking alot without saying very much. nothing revelatory here.
blitzcloud
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oh sorry that it didn't look worthwhile as a point to me. Maybe it's a big thing to be a vigilante for XBL for its users though.
Beer Monkey
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Couldn't everything but the DVR have been done on 360 if they felt like it?
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