Is it possible to be Manticore without supporting XBone?

[QUOTE="SolidTy"]

Maybe I'll post at TDH someday whilst in bearded man character, I'm sure that would be fun.

Jandurin

Maybe I will just grow an unhappy trail (what I call a line of back hair trailing to butt crack), and be that guy for TDH. I still have some shaving to do, but there has to be room for that.

I will even create the beautiful emoticon.

EDIT : Exit Stage Left.

[QUOTE="Jandurin"][QUOTE="SolidTy"]

Maybe I'll post at TDH someday whilst in bearded man character, I'm sure that would be fun.

SolidTy

Maybe I will just grow an unhappy trail (what I call a line of back hair trailing to butt crack), and be that guy for TDH. I still have some shaving to do, but there has to be room for that.

I will even create the beautiful emoticon.

dave123321

I wonder where my level title comes fromdave123321

Here

[QUOTE="Ly_the_Fairy"]

Do you think they might attempt to put a fail-safe in their system? Perhaps if you have the physical disc in the system it won't require a connection.

Jandurin

We'll see.

However, I do understand why the 24 hr check-in is in place to begin with.

The system is essentially all-digital (like Steam), but still allows you to trade in games, and lend them to other players. Obviously if one could just install a game to their hdd, disconnect from the internet, and give the game to someone else to install, this could potentially happen hundreds or thousands of times with a single disc.

The 24 hr check-in just makes that abuse not possible, but MS has made it up to us by allowing trading and lending of digital content very easily. No other digital platform boasts a similar system for digital games.

[QUOTE="dave123321"]I wonder where my level title comes fromNanomage

Here

However, I do understand why the 24 hr check-in is in place to begin with.

Ly_the_Fairy

[QUOTE="Ly_the_Fairy"]

However, I do understand why the 24 hr check-in is in place to begin with.

Jandurin

Did you sport the same mentality when Steam came out, and took away your ability to sell, trade, rent, lend, and borrow games, and in addition requires an online activation? That was incredibly "anti-consumer" in comparison to everything else at the time of launch.

I know I thought that, but once Steam showed me that going all-digital brought about an amazing amount of convenience, and accessibility to gaming I was hooked.

Now Microsoft is attempting to bring that digital model to the consoles, yet still retain the ability to trade and borrow games. There's no doubt in mind that this could make gaming even more accessible than it has ever been ever despite that 24 hr check-in.

[QUOTE="Jandurin"][QUOTE="Ly_the_Fairy"]

However, I do understand why the 24 hr check-in is in place to begin with.

Ly_the_Fairy

Did you sport the same mentality when Steam came out, and took away your ability to sell, trade, rent, lend, and borrow games, and in addition requires an online activation? That was incredibly "anti-consumer" in comparison to everything else at the time of launch.

I know I thought that, but once Steam showed me that going all-digital brought about an amazing amount of convenience, and accessibility to gaming I was hooked.

Now Microsoft is attempting to bring that digital model to the consoles, yet still retain the ability to trade and borrow games. There's no doubt in mind that this could make gaming even more accessible than it has ever been ever despite that 24 hr check-in.

[QUOTE="Jandurin"][QUOTE="Ly_the_Fairy"]

However, I do understand why the 24 hr check-in is in place to begin with.

Ly_the_Fairy

Did you sport the same mentality when Steam came out, and took away your ability to sell, trade, rent, lend, and borrow games, and in addition requires an online activation? That was incredibly "anti-consumer" in comparison to everything else at the time of launch.

I know I thought that, but once Steam showed me that going all-digital brought about an amazing amount of convenience, and accessibility to gaming I was hooked.

Now Microsoft is attempting to bring that digital model to the consoles, yet still retain the ability to trade and borrow games. There's no doubt in mind that this could make gaming even more accessible than it has ever been ever despite that 24 hr check-in.

When steam came up(or started to get relevance),you already couldn´t do all those things with PC games for a long time,aside from a few exceptions,and even now you can still do so with tons of non steam retail games,even though it was and still is against the law,technically.

The PC market and the console market are very different from each other.

[QUOTE="rjdofu"]Why do you need to be a manticore anyway?Shewgenja

you don't have to own everything to be a manticore. it's more about attitude and open mindedness.

CaseyWegner

Owning more than one console to go with my PC would be a complete waste of my money.

AmazonTreeBoa

Manticores are overrated anyway.

ps/pc with some of dat nintendo, all day erryday.

I'm waiting on games and a price cut for the WiiU however/ psst don't tell anyone.

[QUOTE="blue_hazy_basic"]Folks a slight disagreement over a simple phrase is need no for mudslinging ...SolidTy

I'm SolidTy, I bring the best out of SW when I have the time. When I leave for months, people still post my name in rage or glory. :P

Man this quote made me cringe. It's both ego-stroking and complete utter delusion.

Rage or glory..... try laughter and ridicule.

[QUOTE="Floppy_Jim"]Manticores suck balls. blue_hazy_basic

It's only possible to be a manticore if you don't support xbone.  If you support xbox one then you are actually supporting the downfall of gaming itself so supporting x1 is only for people who support the success of a company (MS) over gaming itself.

casharmy

If next gen is anything like this gen, there is almost no point in owning both "HD" consoles...

I'm definitely going to get a "next gen" PC (GTX 770) before I drop $500 on a Xbone.

I would say someone that has PC>PS4>3DS>Wii-U has 98% of anything they could ever want. Honestly if you have all of those there's no way it's humanly possible to even keep up with all the games anyway, anything more than that is extreme overkill IMO.

With all of the anti-gamer policies on this console as well as the TV TV TV TV Sports Sports Sports focus of the Xbone, can we judge anyone who considers themselves a gamer but not want to go anywhere near the XBone?  Would your status as a Manticore be called into question only because a corporate entity outside of your influence happens to squirt out a machine that is, quite literally, a demon from Hell?

 

I'm curious, because in the specific case of the XBone, even long-time MS supporters are jumping ship on the thing.  I can't even remember the last time a console was announced and you could still get a Day 1 preorder on the thing past a week.  Even though Manticore status is the epitome of legends on SW, has that lofty goal just become completely unattainable outside the realm of logic and sound mind?  Do our interests as gamers in a connected age with consumer rights and aspirations to be treated with dignity come first or does the relentless pursuit of games?

 

The mind does boggle.

Shewgenja

The thing is what MS is doing with the X1 is pretty much the opposite of what it means to be a gamer. It's hard to support the crap they are spewing out about DRM and online always.