2013-09-23, 15:57 | Link #2261 |
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Microsoft: No indie games at Xbox One launch; they'll come next year
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...changed-at-all
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2013-09-23, 20:35 | Link #2263 | |
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2013-09-23, 23:19 | Link #2265 | |
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Dew and Doritos + Xbox One. Unprecedented experience.
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2013-09-24, 13:44 | Link #2270 | |
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If you think about it, the experiment actually validates Microsoft's always-online, service-oriented vision of the game industry (which Sony happens to share). |
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2013-09-24, 15:47 | Link #2271 | |
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SERVICE means offering what people want. MS was pushing their customers to give it money be force. "It's a service... We are SERVING you, so do exactly what we say and give us all your money!"
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2013-09-24, 19:35 | Link #2272 | |
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As always, the customer can choose whether to support it or not. Generally, I spend little money on online games simply because I want a long-term, archivable product. |
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2013-09-24, 20:05 | Link #2274 |
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Regarding the long run, I doubt they've actually rethought anything. The prevailing expectation is that the industry will shift even without their intervention, so MS can lie low now to ease complaints.
In the meantime, look around us. Millions of people will buy Destiny despite its online requirement. The PC world is in love with Steam (cue the excitement for Steambox/SteamOS), and all that it entails. F2P developments are getting strong support from Sony. Most likely, the industry belief is that in due time, anyone who wants to enjoy high-end games will have to buy into the understanding that they don't own anything they access (and FWIW, the mobile space has gone in the same direction with F2P games becoming so big). In the past, poor infrastructure inconvenienced too many people to make this a reality, but there's a lot of confidence in the model now. |
2013-09-24, 23:22 | Link #2275 |
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There is not a single Steam game I own that has always-online. And if they want to force it then I will simply give up gaming.
Much like the argument that everyone should start playing tablets and phone apps, just because there is a new trend doesn't mean people are actually switching to different devices. It's just that there are different people who use different things. Are there people happy to play Always Online games? Sure. Just don't expect me to join them. The same way you won't be able to force me to get a smart-phone, let alone convince me I should buy angry birds.
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2013-09-25, 07:06 | Link #2276 | |
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Microsoft's problem was seeing future trends, and thinking they could just arbitrarily implement them today, without giving the consumers any motivation to get on board with them. As a consequence, many people viewed the characteristics of their online service as being a negative attribute. This wouldn't have mattered if Microsoft had a monopoly, but unfortunately they don't. They have business rivals who were willing to take advantage of Microsoft's clumsy presentation of their online service.
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2013-11-10, 04:23 | Link #2278 | ||
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Target mails Xbox One early, new images and details
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2013-11-10, 05:30 | Link #2279 |
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Lucky dude preordered late, got his console early and is now invited to the launch event, gets his swag bag, gets his twitter and youtube followers up. Not like being banned from online means much when only 150 xbones are out in the wild lol...
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2013-11-22, 22:39 | Link #2280 |
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I can tell ya that we got screwed here in Target Canada. Had to spend the entire day explaining to the six people who lined up that it still hadn't been delivered. Poor chaps visited about 3-5 times during the day to check.
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