And what's your job at Microfail genius? Try thinking your way through an issue before broadcasting to the entire world that you couldn't be bothered spending 30 seconds thinking before you speak. Ever consider the millions of people who currently own one of the 76 million 360's with patchy to non existent internet service? Ever consider that some people seem to be too thick to be able to remember how to breathe?
If the no play no connection = no play thing is true then it's an entire console that's useless for anything without a connection, regardless of whatever distribution platform individual developers come up with. All the rumours are pointing to front of shop control on MS's end requiring a connection to even use the thing beyond switching it on. Nothing against you or your optimism dude but these rumours aren't leaving much room for hope that I'll be able to play Halo 5 if my internet shits itself like it did when it stormed brutally for 3 days straight earlier this year & the net died early into the second day in & was out out for 5 days straight. I did have a good backlog of shows to watch when it came back on but at least I had my 360 to keep me entertained. Under MS's rumoured new plans I wouldn't have even had that if I had their new machine.
The Always Online rumours from several sources state that a connection is required to even play a game with the console kicking you out of your game if the connection is not reestablished within 3 minutes. No internet service = NO GAMING if you buy a NextBox. That is the crux of the issue. Of course these are rumours but if they are true then it equals problems for MS. As I said in my first post, hopefully these are just rumours released to gauge public opinions towards such a move.
Very true dude. All we have to do is look to EA to see how companies support their customers by shutting down the servers required to play their games. Would not surprise me in the least to see MS shut down NextBox servers to force gamers into the next next-gen on MS's time table, not the customers.
I've been a rabid & unashamed XBox fanboy ever since having my mind blown the very first time I saw Halo being played on a mate's TV just after it came out & haven't looked back since, that is until these Always Online rumours for the NextBox started appearing. If these rumours are true then it'll be the first time Sony will get my cash since I bought a PS1 back in '99, not that I have anything against Sony it's just that everything I want to play is on either both or the XBox or the 360 exclusively. Why would anyone want a console that shits its pants & says "computer says NO" every time the internet drops out? I do have broadband but I would bet money that there are millions of 360 owners out there with either shitty & patchy connections, dial-up because of no service in their area or no internet at all, especially for those in rural areas. MS would be automatically excluding untold millions of potential customers by such a move.
I've lost count of the amount of times I've seen "disconnected from XBox live" whilst playing something. Being disconnected from a game when the interwebz drops out is bad enough, having the entire console transformed into a giant, very expensive & very unplayable paperweight for the duration of the outage would be downright infuriating, case in point, during a massive storm earlier this year the internet went out & it took 5 days for it to come back on. An Always Online console would have been useless despite the fact I still had power. I'm just hoping that these rumours are nothing more than Microsoft trying to gauge customer opinions on such a move though I'm not going to hold my breath in hope.
Considering the near universal contempt from gamers everywhere towards these compulsory Always Online rumours & their threats to boycott the NextBox & cross over to Sony if MS tried it, it'd be more than pretty fucken dumb for them to try & pull this kind of shit now. Over 76 million 360's have sold since its release & if Microsoft is determined to enforce this idiocy then I would guess that if gamers were true to their word & boycotted the NextBox that over the entire lifespan of the new console you could halve that number at the absolute very least unless they realised their mistake before losing any remaining shred of the good will of their customers & just patched it out.
Regardless if MS do it & patch it out later or do it & just hold up their middle fingers to everyone regardless of how bad they're failing, Sony would gain a massive & unbeatable lead in the next gen of consoles & Microsoft would be done for the next gen at least, having to rely on the uneducated buyers as most gamers with any knowledge (I hope anyway) would not be so willing to forgive being treated with such utter contempt. All it takes though is one idiot at MS with more power than brains to see this lunacy done. Here's to hoping that there's at least one person at MS that doesn't share the same retarded & ruinous contempt for gamers as Adam Orth.
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