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.
