Microsoft has announced that they have changed Xbone’s policies. There is no 24 hour Internet check and the console uses disc based DRM instead of Internet DRM for games.
The hardcores are in collective orgasm and are now rushing to purchase preorders for the Xbox 180. “Have you SEEN Titanfall?” they squeal as they prepare themselves to get Xboned.
Above: Kyle Wagner is furious of Microsoft’s move and really wanted to be Xboned the hardcore way.
Kyle Wagner, from Gizmondo, is not happy with the castrated Xbone.
Above: There is the right way for Microsoft to do things, the wrong way for Microsoft to do things, and then there is the Michael Pachter solution where he tries to preserve the DRM model by making it subsidized and tries to convince the hardcore that they truly want DRM models subsidized.
Why would an analyst write a thread on a gaming message forum on how to save Microsoft? Pachter probably has Don Mattrick’s phone number on speed-dial.
Pachter thinks the solution to Microsoft’s problem is to subsidize the DRM model so it is perceived to be cheaper. Perhaps Pachter posted this to show that he is the smartest person in the room, but he comes off as the most clueless. With trying to make the DRM model work, Pachter proves he is no gamer.
Somewhere Above: Adam Bankhurst, with lovely ladies, is not interested in being Xboned.
From IGN, Bankhurst argues that with the Xbox 180 move, Microsoft is revealing they are just playing to the wind. What!? Really? Man, am I bummed. I thought Microsoft followed a philosophical company DNA!
Microsoft made a U turn after Windows 8 bombed, so the Xbox 180 move is not unsurprising.
Bankhurst is correct that the Xbox 180 move shows that Microsoft’s arguments of how better the Xbone experience was just vaporous hogwash. The anger he feels comes from people’s hatred of cowardice. Instead of taking a stand for something, Microsoft becomes worse than what they were. With the Xbox 180, they are saying they have principles of nothing and that the console is a product of nothing more than polling algorithms. It is an empty box.