Mental and physical gymnastics apparently.
How about they not have that stupid system check and let people use their consoles permanently offline if they want or need to?
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Polygon: Xbox One policy "gross, despicable, greedy, pathetic, cowardly"
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Mental and physical gymnastics apparently.
How about they not have that stupid system check and let people use their consoles permanently offline if they want or need to?
Agent Dale Cooper
Banned
Sim City had server based gameplay. It's a different scenario to just needing to be connected to live. How often did Xbox Live go down for a major 360 release?
F0rneus
Tears in the rain
And what happens when the One stops being supported? What happens to your money spent on One games, when MS turn off Xbox Live?
I don't get why you guys bother. Let him pout, then it doesn't matter if he's a shill or not. To me, it's just a broken record, anyway.
Oh god, Gies flashback.
Oh god, Gies flashback.
smh, what a disingenuous response. You know what he meant. :/ Tethering is a pain in the ass for new Android devices. Used to be a simple process now I'd have to unlock my phone or pay Sprint for wifi tethering it seems. I've got pdanet and that allows usb tethering but wifi is jacked up and doesn't work (apparently due to Google being assholes and interfering with people using their devices how they wish). The usb requires a client so you can forget about using that on Xbone. It's not something everyone pays for through their cell company (as they don't need it enough to pay for it) or is savvy enough to set up otherwise.
Jake Tower
Banned
If I can't post on NeoGAF, I don't give a fuck (nothing personal GAF).
If I'm locked out of the games I paid for because MS was hacked, or the servers are down for maintenance, or my router blew, or Comcast is being shitty, or any reason completely extraneous to the functioning of the console and the display device, I'm fucking livid.
If I'm locked out of the games I paid for because MS was hacked, or the servers are down for maintenance, or my router blew, or Comcast is being shitty, or any reason completely extraneous to the functioning of the console and the display device, I'm fucking livid.
Dude Abides
Banned
People aren't going to do some tech dork shit to play call of duty. Nor should they have to.
Graphics Horse
Member
crimsonspider89
Banned
And there went another one.
D
Deleted member 10571
Unconfirmed Member
Sometimes I just wanna hug bish. Then I see his avatar and run away in fear.
I KNEW IT!!!
Jake Tower
Banned
PJV3
Member
Fuck me, I knew it had to be.
Because there's more to life than a good internet connection and video games
Broder Salsa
Banned
Goddamn lol
Mmmm I guess there is a few things.
Yeah, but we already got an Agent Cooper somewhere, mostly posting in off topic i think.
Mmmm I guess there is a few things.
Shame, such great user names are getting wasted
Yeah, but we already got an Agent Cooper somewhere, mostly posting in off topic i think.
MaximumFlipFlop
Banned
Yes!
Lots of people with smart phones don't pay for data or constantly have internet access.
legacyzero
Banned
DAMN
Kun Aguero
Member
So the agent was an actual agent!
haha damn
Manmademan
Member
PJV3
Member
Sonething is missing, a ban hammer.
Dubbedinenglish
Banned
Air Zombie Meat
Member
This is just getting crazy now. Shill suicide bombing. Gives me a newfound respect for the old fashioned console warrior.
What I meant even after it was clear, people kept quoting and derailing the thread with him.
PM a mod, and that's that.
Kun Aguero
Member
HAHAHA best gif ever. Loving the Departed gifs, watched it for the umpteenth time last night
Manmademan
Member
some of them can. I'm willing to bet the smarter ones have been here a while
Mermandala
Member
it is happening again.
it is happening again.
it is happening again.
Looking back, I'm starting to feel thankful to EA for being the first to introduce the "cloud gaming" marketing term on a large scale with Sim City, and fucking it up colossally. Marketing must hate that.
Thank you EA, for making your marketing ploy so transparent and easily proven that even the least critical gamer will look twice before buying it again.
Thank you EA, for making your marketing ploy so transparent and easily proven that even the least critical gamer will look twice before buying it again.
Xbone Defense Form - Select One or Multiple
[] You are getting too emotional, allowing me to ignore what you say
[] Gamers are getting entitled again
[x] You're a fanboy/You just hate Microsoft
[x] NeoGAF/Reddit/the hivemind is biased
[X] Doesn't matter, you'll change your mind and buy the console anyway
[X] Gamers just don't like change
[] Gamers are just mad because it's not about them
[] Opinions don't matter, only sales matter
[] Debating about games is meaningless anyway
[X] This is the future
[x] It's the exact same thing as the PC market because of Steam, so you're a hypocrite
[x] My perfect internet connection invalidates your imperfect internet connection
[x] The sharing with 10 family members feature is HUGE
It's really obvious, actually
crimsonspider89
Banned
Someone needs to shop Bish's avatar onto Thor throwing the hammer in Avengers.
Doctor_Thomas
Member
I won't lie, I have, more or less, perfect internet connection. The last time I was disconnected was for a few hours a few years ago, but I'm lucky. I also don't buy or sell games, I very rarely lend or borrow games and, genuinely, the DRM and restricted sales doesn't affect me.
I'm disgusted at the thing because, unlike some people and Microsoft themselves, I understand why it's a problem and I understand that just because I have had no issues in the past doesn't mean the potential isn't there to be completely without internet service. More to the point, I understand that not everyone has as much disposable income as I have where I can buy almost every game I want, some people have to be more reserved in their choices or they may have to give up a few games to get a new one or renting or borrowing may be their only real way to play games, it doesn't make them any less of a gamer, just not in a situation where they can afford to buy everything.
I also understand that used games were being blamed for reduced profits, but then Microsoft have handed the keys to the kingdom to the biggest "enemy" in GameStop meaning their policy hurts smaller retailers and independent deals more than anything else. I also understand the restructions aren't going to result in cheaper games because there's no "used market" draining any percieved profit.
Fundamentally, though, PSN was down at one point for nearly a month. Live is not some sort of fortress, regardless of what Microsoft would have you believe and every network has a weakness somewhere, there's nothing to indicate to me that Live will never, ever have issues.
I'm disgusted at the thing because, unlike some people and Microsoft themselves, I understand why it's a problem and I understand that just because I have had no issues in the past doesn't mean the potential isn't there to be completely without internet service. More to the point, I understand that not everyone has as much disposable income as I have where I can buy almost every game I want, some people have to be more reserved in their choices or they may have to give up a few games to get a new one or renting or borrowing may be their only real way to play games, it doesn't make them any less of a gamer, just not in a situation where they can afford to buy everything.
I also understand that used games were being blamed for reduced profits, but then Microsoft have handed the keys to the kingdom to the biggest "enemy" in GameStop meaning their policy hurts smaller retailers and independent deals more than anything else. I also understand the restructions aren't going to result in cheaper games because there's no "used market" draining any percieved profit.
Fundamentally, though, PSN was down at one point for nearly a month. Live is not some sort of fortress, regardless of what Microsoft would have you believe and every network has a weakness somewhere, there's nothing to indicate to me that Live will never, ever have issues.
Red Blaster
Member
i checked agent coop's post history since i recall him acting like a normal human being in the ot. it's hilarious to see how he went from a seemingly regular poster to turning on the fucking astroturf afterburners with the 'family sharing is a system seller' horseshit.
LukasTaves
Member
That's precisely why they are moving Live to Azure, instead of keeping a fixed number of servers.
Cloud computing were made to deal with scalability surges. Of course, that's not to say that it's impossible that it will ever be offline, but it won't be from spikes in usage due major launches.
