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The Xbox One was in the running as a potential console before its policies were announced A Deathwatch Guard Send a noteboard - 20/06/2013 07:17:09 PM

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But your subject was flat out stupid, and a type of stupid that is rampant in the gamer community. If we don't reward corporations for changing bad policies, then why would they ever change them?

If you weren't interested in the XBOX anyway, then it all makes more sense. They didn't lose your business over the policies, because they never had it in the first place, so no harm, no foul.


After all, I have owned a 360 for nearly six years now, and a PS3 for less than one, so I had no particular anti-Microsoft bias before now. But I think you're wrong. I'm not training Microsoft with a carrot and stick, trying to make it behave itself. I saw its actions, I saw it repeatedly shoot itself in the foot and then immediately put that foot in its mouth, and that made me think less of it. Considerably less. And respect doesn't magically return the instant a policy is corrected, it takes much more than that. I don't think it is stupid or even odd of me to think that way. Perhaps I would reward Microsoft for its reversal if its console was the only console, but why should I reward them for coming to their senses, when another console, the PS4, never made the mistakes to begin with? Shouldn't I reward that, and by that action reward the entire industry rather than just Microsoft?

Besides, we already have a method for rewarding correct decisions, it's called the free market. If Sony wins this console generation, that will educate Microsoft much more than buying their consoles now will, because I am quite confident that they have not learned anything, merely forestalled their plans for the time being.

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Aaaaaaand Microsoft does a 180. No more phone-home, used game restrictions, etc. - 19/06/2013 10:26:37 PM 1492 Views
No, it's cool...we didn't really mean it. - 19/06/2013 10:38:56 PM 959 Views
The technology is still there... - 19/06/2013 10:51:53 PM 793 Views
It's just software, of course it's still there. - 20/06/2013 02:03:35 AM 1040 Views
They'll sneak it in little by little. - 20/06/2013 04:21:26 PM 988 Views
Fair enough. - 20/06/2013 06:24:33 PM 965 Views
Not necessarily the DRM issue. - 21/06/2013 01:34:44 AM 856 Views
This is a win. - 20/06/2013 02:42:47 AM 842 Views
I'll not reward Microsoft for coming to its senses and covering its ass - 20/06/2013 10:15:09 AM 852 Views
Why not? That's exactly what's supposed to happen. - 20/06/2013 04:02:30 PM 1025 Views
Re: Why not? That's exactly what's supposed to happen. - 20/06/2013 07:11:15 PM 819 Views
Re: Why not? That's exactly what's supposed to happen. - 20/06/2013 09:10:25 PM 761 Views
I also hope this happens. - 20/06/2013 10:55:06 PM 744 Views
Ok, makes more sense with the body of the message. - 20/06/2013 07:00:36 PM 841 Views
The Xbox One was in the running as a potential console before its policies were announced - 20/06/2013 07:17:09 PM 761 Views

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