X1 questions, your thoughts regarding current policies & old policies

I liked the original XBox One policies. I did not see any disadvantages at all. I have good internet, never rent games and never buy or sell used games. Being able to install from a disk and then never need the disk again would have been great.

I pre-ordered one from Amazon as soon as pre-orders were available.

Since they made the reversal, the biggest change for me will be not purchasing physical disks any more. I will just go with digital downloads for everything.

Well, they did it. They reversed all of their policies on DRM for the Xbox One....I'm still not buying one and I will be happy to explain why.

You see, Microsoft lit the gaming community on fire with all of its intrusive DRM, terrible policies and "Deal with it" responses. They fully and proudly announced all of these horribly intrusive hoops for consumers to jump through. This was no slight overlook, no this was balls out screwing the consumer and they knew it.

So they announced all these wonderful things going all out and acting proud of it at their press conference. Well the internet erupted into a volcano of hatred for weeks on end constantly, everywhere and what did Microsoft do? They said "Deal with it" they explained why the "Concept of ownership is morphing" by telling us how we should share our products we buy and own with Microsoft and do what they say with them, they spent weeks with interviews and conferences explaining why all this stuff is really ok and its for our own good and told us why we should just roll over and accept it. Lets face it, this has been going on for months before the E3 event unveiled all of their plans.

So after all of that they decided to reverse the policies they were slapping us with just a few days ago and expecting to not only put up with them, but pay for them as well.

Will I buy an Xbox One now that Microsoft has changed the policies that I so justifiably hated? No, I will not. Not even if they reduce the price and throw in a free game I will not buy an Xbox One.

"OHHHH BUT WHY????!!!!! They change what you hated you should like them now!" No, I should not like them now. They flip flopped over night, that does not suddenly make everything ok.

Despite changing their policies Microsoft is still the exact same company it was 2 days ago which we all hated and despised. Sure they changed policies but its still the same company. Do you honestly think the entire company suddenly had a epiphany and decided now it loves the consumers? Has our best interest at heart? And wants to become all of our best friends and show us how loved and adored we are as their customers? Wrong! Its the same company. They did not change their minds over night, and there is nothing to say they wont change it right back again at the drop of a hat.

Microsoft did not make these changes for the good of the consumer. They did not change anything to please its customers. They did not change anything to bring more value to us. They did not change anything in order to make us feel valuable. And they did not change anything to say they are sorry. They did however change things for the sake of profit and nothing else. They changed not because they wanted to, but because they were forced to.

Gargus

x1 day 1 ebay day 2. i liked the console originally except the 24hr check. now only thing it has that i'm interested in is new ip's, the entertainment features and multitasking. maybe a slight interest in kinect

I liked the original XBox One policies. I did not see any disadvantages at all. I have good internet, never rent games and never buy or sell used games. Being able to install from a disk and then never need the disk again would have been great.

I pre-ordered one from Amazon as soon as pre-orders were available.

Since they made the reversal, the biggest change for me will be not purchasing physical disks any more. I will just go with digital downloads for everything.

Esfan13

Ordered the X1 right after the PS4 presentation, before the 180. My reaction was the following: "Dead Rising and Titanfall, cool.  And bonus, they have started the switch to digital, great!" 

1)   when the X1 was officially revealed and MS told the world of its policies, how did you all feel and react towards the old policies with its restrictions
Had heard the rumors, so wasn't too surprised when Microsoft wanted to remove our ability to own physical copies. Was still bummed out by it.

2)   Did you pay the full price or pre-order the X1 when it has the old policies?
When they clarified their position I made the decision to never purchase an Xbox One.

4)   The X1 did the 180, and for those who didnt want the X1 with the old policy, did you decide to pay/pre-order the X1 with the new policy knowing you can play your game offline without any worry about clocking in and so on?
5)   Are there still Xbox fans who refuse to get the X1 even though it did the 180?
An eventual Xbox One purchase is no longer 100% impossible. But I'm in no rush to throw money at a company willing to go all-in on such anti-consumer policies as part of their vision.I'll wait a bit and see how things unfold.

6)   What if MS decided to put the old policies back on thus giving you the 24hour clocking and so on. For those who did pre-ordered/payed for the X1 with its current policy that everyone fought for, how would you feel and react if MS did put if back on knowing that the console you just payed for is going to do the very thing you where fighting against.
That would be unfathomably ridiculous. If I owned an Xbox One at that point I'd get rid of it and probably never buy a Microsoft console until management of the Xbox division got replaced.

7) Do you trust MS with what its done since it revealed the X1 back in May
Not really. Save Matrick, the people who thought the old policies were a good idea are still there, right?

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[QUOTE="XboxStache"] Then fvck off already. Shouldn't you be Pming Carolyn Petit, weaboo? Rofl!!!XboxStache

Somebody's upset I have no interest in the One.