I thought that fee was specific to online multiplayer? I could be wrong, though. Cause honestly, if "PS+ is a paid service needed to play multiplayer online" is informing that meme, and it's not some crazy thing where the co-op or split-screen won't work sans internet, I don't see the big deal at all, really.
Ben breaks the Xbone! Angry rant ahead!
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 On 06/14/2013 at 12:05 AM by BrokenH See More From This User » |
I don’t see why I need to write this. By now you know my stance on the Xbox one. Aka, it begins with “hell” and ends with “no”. However, you may not realize I own a 360 and that I’m not exactly a sony fan boy. For me as a gamer it’s about the games. Well, it is to a point. If you offer me a sweet exclusive but then say I have to implant a cortex bomb into my skull I’m still going to tell you to fuck off.
For me saying “no” to Microsoft isn’t my attempt to be hip by dissing “the big corporation“. I’m also not jumping on the bandwagon just because most of my friends are. Put bluntly, it’s a moral obligation. Does that come off as crazy? Okay, fair enough! Let me break it down for you!
1. Microsoft’s solution for people with poor internet is to buy a 360. Yeah, they have that much nerve! Aka, if you are poor, enlisted, rural, or live in an area with frequent brown outs & black outs ms told you to fuck yourself. You don’t deserve to join everyone else in the glorious era of next generation gaming!
2. Microsoft reserves it’s right to change its’ policies at any given moment. Sure, maybe the kinect will not spy on us at first. But once Microsoft starts getting huge bribes from advertisement companies and the government to watch us and listen in on us you better believe they are going to sell us out lickity split!
3. Even if you are despicably rich and even if “mumsy and dadsy” are willing to buy you an Xbox one, do you want a console that essentially becomes a plastic paperweight once it’s no longer supported? I assume even privileged folks prefer things that continue to function and are of high quality.
4. You can theoretically share your gaming library with up to 10 family members but why is there a friggin number limit in the first place?!
5. Your “game disk” is a glorified install disk! Yup, the Xbox one hard-drive going to fill up quick!
6. While you can technically take a game to a friend’s house there’s a 1 hour limit to play it with them. Who the fuck thought of this brilliant decision? Time to break out the execution rifles and the blindfolds.
7. Yes, you can sell “used games” but only to retailers Microsoft approves of. What does that mean? Good bye rental services, Goodbye Mom & Pop stores! Time for all you people to look for new jobs!
8. While the X-bone doesn’t have to be online constantly it does have to check in every 24 hours. See? Even the console itself is being oppressed by Microsoft!
9. Yes ms, we realize “it’s up to the publishers”. But guess what? You are enabling them!
10. Want to buy a “used game”? Pay a $35.00 fee, chump!
11. You can lend your game to “one friend” on your list but once you do it’s bound to their profile. Aka, that’s where the caring-sharing trail ends!
12. Indie game developer? Please,enter the gas chamber to your left!
Hypothetically Microsoft is probably in the midst of changing many of these polices so they can bail water out of a sinking ship. However, the fact they had the audacity to pull this in the first place has just lost them a customer. Normally I absolutely loathe judging gamers for their console choices . Yet if you buy an Xbone you are part of the problem. No, that doesn’t put you in the same depraved league as a mass murderer, child molester, or a rapist. But it does make you a tool who is supporting anti-consumer and anti-privacy practices which can eventually infringe upon us all if they go unchallenged. (Don't worry. If we're already friends I'll forgive you! Just expect me to slap you upside your head,okay?)
PS: I realize to play online multi-player on the PS4 I have to buy a subscription for playstation plus. Yet that’s the only caveat I can pick at on sony’s side of the fence! Overall their pastures are still much greener with less cow-shit!
I'm mostly with the PS4 but still a tad paranoid.
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