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Microsoft Studios' creative director has some choice words about always-online
- Thread starter shinobi602
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I don't think people need to worry about Live going down, just their local Internet connection. These days, connections like that are required to be up 99.999% of the time (5 minutes of downtime a year), or 99.9999% of the time (30 seconds a year)
Any business will require that level of availability for important services. Now, your local provider doesn't have those guarantees.
Any business will require that level of availability for important services. Now, your local provider doesn't have those guarantees.
SenjutsuSage
Banned
Haha, wow. The undertones here are incredibly arrogant, condescending, and blatantly shitting on small town America. What a great representative of MS's corporate image.
How will small town America find out if they don't have an internet connection?
Ninja Scooter
Member
Well there are Wii U games announced I'll give you that...the problem is the "released" part.
travisbickle
Member
If this guy is trolling, he's got the biggest balls ever.
It takes balls to start trolling online when people can see the company you work for.
It takes huge balls to start trolling online regarding a rumour about the company you work for!!
Creative director, what's that $90,000 a year job?
DAMAGE CONTROL
Oh I'm sure someone will mod a way for it to work offline.
mysteriousmage09
Member
Kotaku rumor earlier today stated that you needed to be connected to play games and use apps on Durango and that it currently had a 3 min. window that you could be offline before being kicked out of said game/app.
Creative director goes on a damage control meltdown stating that "everything is connected anyways" "why the hell would I live where the internet is shit?".
mentalfloss
Banned
I've lost electricity maybe once in the last two years.
I've had issues connecting to XBL pretty much once every week. The saddest part is I have had 0 problems connecting with Wii U and I have to pay for XBL.
I've had issues connecting to XBL pretty much once every week. The saddest part is I have had 0 problems connecting with Wii U and I have to pay for XBL.
As much fun as it is to see people reacting negatively to the worst player in the console game, I am sad to say that I think once they start revealing stuff people will change their tune. Halo 5 and Gears 4, just one good new IP, many if not all of the same features the PS4 offers, Twitch-exclusivity, whatever DVR/Cable Box function they're going to offer, a subsidized SKU and who knows what other features they come up with will win a ton of people over.
Not saying they'll "win," but I don't think always-online or no-used games is enough to kill them. People already not only put up with GOLD, but defend it. People are... kinda dumb...
Not saying they'll "win," but I don't think always-online or no-used games is enough to kill them. People already not only put up with GOLD, but defend it. People are... kinda dumb...
ok that was funny.
Kotaku article said they could probably patch it out.
Rebel Leader
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I wouldn't call it confirmed. But it's the closest answer we ever had
I would much prefer a console I could actually play versus one that I could not.
Literally, a console being online would make it unplayable for me. It's not even a principles thing, not really. Canadian internet is complete shit and controlled by four or five providers barely distinguishable from the other. It's not like being unable to use my vacuum during a blackout. It's like being able to turn on my vacuum whenever I want, but whenever I do, it intermittently turns off and on in entirely unpredictable intervals.
Ninja Scooter
Member
and then MS will ban your system like that one dude who played Halo early lol
toddhunter
Member
Steam offline mode for those who keep mentioning that "steam doesn't let you play offline either":
It took them ages to fix, but it does work properly now.
It took them ages to fix, but it does work properly now.
Psychoward
Banned
If the creative director is going to go with a "oh well, fuck 'em" attitude, why should their consumers care about them?
Neuromancer
Member
When did he make his Twitter account private?
Vire
Member
cosmicblizzard
Banned
Oh man, I can't even imagine what this would be like if I still lived on campus or in the school apartments.
Come this fall (or early 2014), there are going to be A LOT of angry frat guys.
Simply Sami
Member
Can someone put these tweets first post.
Karsticles
Member
This made me laugh - good show.
Let's not let this get caught astray here. It could have been a joke to Orth, but damn is it a crude one that this thread has shown as something that seemed far more reaching.
Fine then. Cell phones with shitty coverage. Ultimately the up time is good enough for the things I want to do. If this is all true the same thing will happen with the 720. I buy every console and want the option to play everything. Not everyone has the same level of acceptance that I do with such things. Not only that, but not everyone can get always online with the situation they live in. I'm talking about my personal standards. If you live in a place with shitty or no internet then yeah fuck this console.
:lol
Sure you were joking pal.
That arrogance is making sure that any money I am spending next-gen isn't going toward MS.
Hell, my Win7/8 copies were provided to me for free.
Rebel Leader
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8/10
MS easily. The Wii-U will at least have some good games eventually, and I won't need an internet connection to play them.
ElectricKaibutsu
Member
Apparently the anti small town joke is being taken out of context.
funkystudent
Member
"why on earth would I live there"
...... Jasus Christ!
Oh 3rd console curse please come and give these asshats a wakeup call.
...... Jasus Christ!
Oh 3rd console curse please come and give these asshats a wakeup call.
I didn't read all 25 pages, but I thought I read the whole twitter meltdown but I must have missed him saying he was responding directly to that.
Guys meltdown is laughable, as he's either a real jerk, or is going to wake up tomorrow with some real remorse for letting his twitter mouth get the best of him.
I just don't see how this confirms that you have to be on-line to play games. I think that is some definite over-reaction there.
Too late. If he was just joking, he still messed up. Sarcasm doesn't exist on the internets.
TheBaronOfNA
Banned
What worries me about this whole thing, is that it's likely Microsoft is positioning Durango as a 'do-it-all' device for the living room a console that serves up gaming, movies, TV, internet... everything.
If Xbox LIVE goes down, or your ISP has problems, or your router goes out, it's not just your Xbox that goes down...
Your entire living room goes down.
If Xbox LIVE goes down, or your ISP has problems, or your router goes out, it's not just your Xbox that goes down...
Your entire living room goes down.
Let the damage control begin.
GhaleonQ
Member
*laughs* THAT'S the 1 I can't believe he actually said. The rest is pre-emptive defensiveness. Insulting mid-sized cities outside of metropolitan areas is baffling and plainly irresponsible and ought to cost him dearly.
Well, duh. No one thinks he hates Boulder, Colorado. It's still purposeless snark without an obvious smirk. That's risky enough to do when one's speaking in person. On INTERNET? Foolish.
rudieboy77
Member
Yep I knew this was trolling.
Psychoward
Banned
Or option C) PC/PS4
old manatee
Banned
when it was too late.
This made me lol
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