Xbox's "Always On"fiasco.

[Freya]

So this happened.



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So the rumor is that the next xbox will require a constant internet connectivity to play anything on it. Which is hella tits gay for people with me who's provider sucks major balls.

What's your opinion on a "Always On" Console?

Language. ~Shorty

[Madame Adequate]

I think I won't be getting a Bawks720.

[Slothy]

If I even need to state my opinion of a console requiring an online connection to play games even in single player mode then you people probably don't read my posts anyway.

[Psychotic]

I think I won't be getting a Bawks720.

Indeed. I was on the fence for the next gen but if this is true, well... after five years on the East Microsoft coast, it was time to come home.

[Shauna]

If this is true, then Microsoft have shot themselves in the foot something awful. Hopefully this'll just be a rumour or something akin to the story of Sony patenting anti-used game software.

[Del Murder]

What would be worse, the 'always on' XBox or the PS3 that requires all games to be tied to a single machine?

[Slothy]

What would be worse, the 'always on' XBox or the PS3 that requires all games to be tied to a single machine?

Seeing as the latter isn't a thing which would seem to actually exist I'd say the always online Xbox.

[DK]

I think I won't be getting a Bawks720.

Yep smurf that noise all day, time to suckle at Sony's teat again.

[Psychotic]

What would be worse, the 'always on' XBox or the PS3 that requires all games to be tied to a single machine?

If they're both real, the former for me.

If this is a plan that Microsoft has then I suspect that with the Sim City disaster and all the backlash they're getting right now it's something they are going to strongly smurfing reconsider!

[Night Fury]

Hmmm. I'm not even bothered about the fact I'd have to be connected all the time, I'm more concerned about why as it seems very Surveillance Society to me.

[Slothy]

If this is a plan that Microsoft has then I suspect that with the Sim City disaster and all the backlash they're getting right now it's something they are going to strongly smurfing reconsider!

I think you give Microsoft a bit more credit than I would.

[Psychotic]

I give their desire to make $$$ credit if nothing else. In what is set to be a very tightly poised console war after all the ground Microsoft made up in the current generation, this would be absolute suicide.

[Slothy]

I give their desire to make money plenty of credit as well. But they're also a company steeped in bureaucracy and with the one exception of the 360, have basically spent the last decade or more getting their ass handed to them by every one of their competitors because they just aren't capable of getting trout done even when they know what it is they should be doing.

I have no reason to believe they're going to take that gun they have aimed at their foot and figure out how the safety works now when they haven't been able to work it out before.

[Freya]

I really feel like I betrayed this generation by going to the xbox. I think I will go home to sony regardless if this is true or not. SONY I'M COMING HOME.

[Pike]

Meh.

Just sticking with my PC again.