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by BushLin on Wed 19th Jun 2013 23:32 UTC
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Someone finally smelt the coffee and maybe not too late to save the fate of their console.

Nice to see the public are not as moronic as some rather greedy folk thought, seems slightly empowering in terms of consumer rights and strangely amusing.

I wasn't going to buy one regardless but always have a nano celebration when we don't have to bow to the whims of a tech firm who happen to fancy extracting a little more from a strong market of theirs... at your expense.
(MS are far from the only ones and Sony aren't my hero either)

Edited 2013-06-19 23:35 UTC

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RE: Hahahahahahaha
by lucas_maximus on Wed 19th Jun 2013 23:41 in reply to "Hahahahahahaha"
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Actually retail shops will still be able to dictate high prices on games now.

It isn't a victory.

I dunno about how I feel about the Xbox 1 (I own a PS3 and plan on owning a PS4 as well as my kickass PC).

It is a shallow victory at best.

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RE[2]: Hahahahahahaha
by BushLin on Thu 20th Jun 2013 00:01 in reply to "RE: Hahahahahahaha"
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Well I come from the angle of wanting to keep playing good games regardless of their age.

Can you imagine trying to fire up Civ2 or Super Mario Bros 3 and a message came up saying it couldn't communicate with the game server so fuck you, you can't play?

Microsoft were creating a scenario where a much loved game would be impossible to play in 10-15 years time, let alone 25 years. You will find no promises from Microsoft (prior to the recent reversal) as to how long the system would be supported.

Now I can understand why someone who works in IT would wonder why you'd want to run decades old software but while Amiga OS doesn't cut it for my regular computing needs.... Lemmings is still dam good fun.

With regards to the price of games, I have no problem picking up great games for less than £5 and we're talking huge titles like Red Dead Redemption... just a few years after you perhaps.

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RE[2]: Hahahahahahaha
by ze_jerkface on Thu 20th Jun 2013 04:05 in reply to "RE: Hahahahahahaha"
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Do explain this belief especially in the context of the current situation where Xbox 360 games on demand cost more than at Amazon.

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RE[2]: Hahahahahahaha
by silviucc on Thu 20th Jun 2013 08:32 in reply to "RE: Hahahahahahaha"
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You are one of those people that believe that taking out the retailers means automatically that game publishers will sell the games for smaller prices.

I do not share your p.o.v. Their (MSs) move to digital only was not going to kill the big retailers. They already had backstage deals with MS. Why do you think they had that "special" thing where people could trade in their used games at "select" places? They would have killed smaller shops that did not have the pull to be one of those "select" places that allowed game trading to happen.

I agree that prices are some times kept artificially up because of the retailers, Blizzard is one very good example of that but I do not believe that taking them out would instantly mean lower prices for gaming. it would only mean that publishers have more power than before.

I'm also hesitant to call this a victory. Yes, for now it is. Consumers got to keep the rights that they already had. A very good thing but as we saw "terms and conditions are subject to change." No one would stop MS from doing a dick move some years down the line once people are hooked on and have invested money into the thing.

Remember how Sony decided it was not ok any more to run Linux on their PS3s? Yeah, just like that. You buy something like this if you trust the company. Both Sony and MS are on the list of evil bastards but oh look, shiny game. Me wants it! Buy, buy, buy!

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