Ok Microsoft had me reconsidering a purchase, and then I saw this. I am blown away, game comes with one character, next the players will only come with direction control, you will have to buy the ability to kick and punch. Sounds crazy, not anymore.
@tushwacker @airman20012001 I would agree if it was any other company besides Microsoft. They spend millions of dollars researching product markets before they release policy information to the public. There is no doubt they knew gamers didn't want to loss the ability to buy sell and trade games. GameStop is a publicly traded company and they knew GameStop didn't want DRM employed either. They made a bet that they had cornered enough of the market that they could shut down GameStop take their profit and at the same time stomp Sony effectively monopolizing the video game market, and your right it blew up in their face. But to say there is no reason to hold that against them is preposterous, as a customer that is exactly our job, to keep markets competitive in order to ensure a better product and keep prices down.
@botsio They knew we didn't like it but they thought they could force policy and that weak people would still buy. For that reason I refuse to support them, and I've been a box fan boy since the first box.
To late, they did consumer research before making these decisions, they knew the average gamer didn't like those policy's and tried to shove them down our throat anyway. The only reason their not sticking by their original policy's is because Sony didn't follow suit. They can suck it.
yep, their PR guys are doing everything they can to reframe the conversation. Trying to make it seem like their not the ones trying to squeeze every penny out of the consumer as possible.
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