Mister Jack

I know they're doing cross game chat now but have they said if it's just private chat or if there is a party system in place?

Ballmer has been called the worst CEO in America ever since that windows 8 debacle. I doubt he could look much worse than he already does. And I'm not even saying they should fire Mattrick. Just demote him or something. Get him the hell away from PR because he completely sucks at it.

60 minutes? A crummy demo?! Son of a bitch!

The family plan thing was just confirmed as lame bullshit by a trusted insider at neogaf. So really it's no wonder Microsoft backed down. Can you imagine the shitstorm that would have gone down if people held on to the family sharing as the one thing to make the drm worth putting up with, then Microsoft came out and popped the last balloon in their parade?

I'm sorry, Ethan. Try to at least take solace in the fact that she had a long, comfortable life with you and your wife.

iOS version is out now.

Yes. Everything carries over so long as you play the same difficulty or lower.

The family plan thing was actually a step backwards under those conditions. I mean, someone else has to buy the game for you to try a demo? The fuck is that?

It's unconfirmed, but if you think about it, doesn't this seem a lot more likely?

Note how game sharing was just a glorified demo. Don't you feel better now? Fuck it, I say.

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Seriously, I bet she platinum'd Dark Souls just to make the guys think she was a real gamer. Talk about pathetic.

A part of me wonders if Don Mattrick will still have his current job when the dust settles. I mean, he fucked up BIG time. He may not be responsible for those policies everyone hated, but he did the worst possible job at softening the bow. Such a huge reversal does not happen every day, and his remarks are at least partly responsible for making it necessary. Had he emphasized family sharing from the beginning, they might have been able to barely justify what they were trying to do.

Well Microsoft is insisting that kinect is a still a "core part" of the Xbone experience, so it looks like we won't be getting a cheaper, kinect-less console and it's still required for the console to work. They almost had me.

I know this is Microsoft we're talking about but it would take a lot of balls to fuck every single one of their customers over in such brazenly duplicitous fashion.

You took out a loan for 98,000 without knowing if there's interest? Nigga you crazy.

I wasn't planning on getting the Xbone but I was still hoping that at some point they'd realize they fucked up and fix all the things wrong with it, at which point I might want one. But if this is a bait and switch, no amount of marketing would ever make me trust them again.

That would be perhaps the shittiest thing they've ever done to xbox customers. A stunt like that would get me to swear off Microsoft consoles for life.

Yeah, right? He's living in a shed and he's clearly fallen on hard times but his asshole friend is making him buy killzone on a whim. Talk about selfish.

If anyone is posting here on their mobile devices using tapatalk, there's a new tapatalk 4 beta out. It's not too shabby.

Man it almost sounds too good to be true. Now make the Kinect optional and sell a console without the stupid thing included and you might actually win me over, Microsoft.

Tucker and Dale was one of the funniest surprises I saw last year.

I've already decided to hang onto my PS3. At least for the time being. You can thank last of us for that.

I would say the Xbone's game sharing was a good thing if I understood how it fucking worked.