X-Boned
Chris Plante of Polygon nails it on the XBox One:
After a month of vague corporate comments from Microsoft executives, we now know the Xbox One's game licensing policy was written from the ground up for companies. It's aggressively anti-consumer and anti-middle class, and it outright ignores underprivileged gamers. It's gross, despicable, greedy, pathetic, cowardly and out of touch with a growing global resentment for corporations.
Yeah, a gaming PC hooked up to the TV to run Steam Big Picture is looking better and better....
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Re: X-Boned
[kilon] June 10, 2013 5:54:49.357
Desperate times call for desperate measures ?
On the other hand , to do the unthinkable and defend Micro$oft , de we really think that with all this piracy going around that companies wont try to fight back ?
If iOS taught us anyhing is that close platforms cannot only survive but even flourish, massively.
I am completely in favor of the author here that this is an extremely sad / rediculous situation to be in , but in the end M$ (as any big company) cares all about money and this move may work for them. But only if the games , at least the big ones , can justify with continuous online content.
Would I boycott such console ? You can bet on it ! But I dont kid myself. I am a minority that so happens to put his values highly above his pesonal entertainment needs. The same cant be said about the average gamer.
I always found Stallman as a radicall , but what lately happens in the world of software pretty much justifies his war against anything anti GPL.