@WraistlinGill DUDE!!! Stop with the rape comments; I hardly think anything Microsoft does even with the most draconian and consumer un-friendly policies comes anywhere close to the experience of rape; jeez, plus you've said the same thing like a billion times lol
@Shooter572 @MADDjoe Having recently returned from Afghanistan, I can attest to there being very little to do aside from work, so when you do get a day off, you want to enjoy it and a lot of us had Xboxes or PS3s. During work yes; more pressing matters - but downtime? MOAR GAMES!!! And believe me; there's a LOT of soldiers, marines, sailors, and airmen on FOBs, COBs, ships & subs - the military is a sizeable percentage of the gaming industry's support. They would do wise to have the ability to turn the 24hr ping check off for deploying troops... while there is occasionally internet service; it's generally not very reliable or consistent.
@adamg78 (a) I'm pretty sure girls don't play video games and (b) if they did, they probably wouldn't play topless and (c) the ones that do play video games and would play topless are probably not the ones you wanna see but (d) if that's your thing, more power to you :)
I, too, really really REALLY hope they listen. Also, WTF is with the XB1 being $100 MORE than the PS4? I'm sure it'll only be a few months before it goes down, but still; one must wonder if they are intentionally shooting themselves in the foot on this one or if they just forgot their glasses, became frightened by the sound of the round exploding and weren't holding their weapon tightly enough...
@EvanescentCrow Two quick things; first of all, yes, my reasoning fails because MS's position is indefensible (despite my attempts at playing devil's advocate) - you might have missed where I was not ACTUALLY defending them :) and second, I have to respectfully say that you're wrong: the consumer does not have "rights." I mean, we have the rights guaranteed us by the constitution, and in general the rights to defend ourselves (or sue) in court if we have been the recipients of an actual legal/criminal injustice as interpreted by US law, but we vote our "rights" (as you mean them to be) away every time we willingly (read: gladly) buy from a company that restricts them. As gamers, we have privileges - the privilege to buy and the privilege to not buy; which we allow the game/software/hardware developers and retailers to curtail every time they feel like they might not be making as big of a profit as they otherwise could have.
Other than those two observations, you're absolutely spot on in your assessment.
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