So apparently an upset employee at MS' Xbox division made a statement about his woes in regards to the Xbox One.
http://www.heyuguysgaming.com/news/12507/heartbroken-xbox-one-employee-lets-rip-must-readI couldn't let some of that butthurt nonsense fly, so ill copypaste what I responded over there.
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"Microsoft might be a big company, but we at the Xbox division have always been for the gamer."For the gamer? I find that hard to believe when you impose such harsh restrictions on them. Not to mention you might be "pro gamer" but as far as you developer interactions, you are clearly only pro-Large big budget dev, as indicated by your refusal to let Independent Developers self publish on your system. You realize, i hope, how that makes you seem very much the opposite of "pro gamer". It makes you seem "pro corporation, anti-gamer"
"While publishers have never come right out to us at MS and say “We want you to do something about used gaming” we could hear it in their voices and read it in their numerous public statements."So you can read minds?
" every attempt to slow down the bleeding was met with much resistance from the gaming community."
"So when you buy a game used you’re hurting developers much more than say a movie studio. "The problem is it all comes back down to the question of how to handle the sale of my legally purchased property.
A game is my legal property once I buy it. Under the law, I own that copy of the software, and am entitled to do with it as I wish, within the bounds of law. Meaning, I can sell it if I wish. By carefully making it a "license" to use the software, and not actual ownership of the game, you angered many, who buy games for the ridiculous prices of today, and then, cannot simply go and sell it like I would an old toy or CD. yes yes, you were "planning" on setting up some kind of used games market. But the fact is you still had the draconian anti game sharing system in place which made it far too much trouble.
"the best selling games are blockbusters, the highest rated are blockbusters, the most loved are blockbusters."There's the problem. Stop making movies, and start making games. The market is over saturated with wannabe blockbuster games that all jump on whatever trend developer X started with blockbuster AAA game Z. it leads to bad games that are just interactive movies. They still get 10/10 reviews of course, because of the "artistic vision" (and the deep pockets the developers have to market and pay reviewers)
The main reason one might sell a game, is because one did not like said game. Say i play this game here, and i dislike it. it's not to my taste. so i sell it back, and use the money towards another game.
long story short here, and It's something I believe Reggie of Nintendo USA said as well...
Make better games, and less people will sell them back. A great game is one that will often stay with you. you want to keep the games you consider good.
developers have noone to blame but themselves for the current state of gaming and used games. They make these over budgeted AAA games, which then cost $60 each, for a game that might not even be that good, and then expect people NOT to try and get rid of the game. Make games cheaper, and better quality, and there will be less monetary issues with Developers. They don't HAVE to make every game a shot at glory with a high budget movie experience. that's not what made half of those companies what they are. What made Capcom? a cliche'd fighting game and a game about a blue robot fighting a mad scientist.
if they sink more and more money into games, and then require massive sales to recoup the cost, they should not be surprised when the don't make back the money.
let them set up some kind of used games market. I have NO problem selling the game back to the developer. a "refund" if you would.
yet, i don't see them trying something like that. Why? because they don't want games to be re-sold at ALL. OR returned.
"When your family member accesses any of your games, they’re placed into a special demo mode. This demo mode in most cases would be the full game with a 15-45 minute timer and in some cases an hour. This allowed the person to play the game, get familiar with it then make a purchase if they wanted to."
I can go to a store with a display for a demo. or just go on xbox live and Dl the demo there, which many games do. I don;t need a friend to buy the game to share a demo with me. people want to share THE FULL GAME, NOT THE DEMO. It's a tradition since the very first video game consoles and cartridges. If a friend wants to listen to your CD, you are not going to tell him, 'here's a 15 second sample of the songs. if you want to listen to it, why don't you buy one?' No, you just lend him the damn CD.
"There weren’t many models of this system already in the wild other than Sony’s horrendous game sharing implementation"I hope you don't expect me to take you seriously when your only example is 'OH THE TERRIBLE VERSION THE COMPETITOR HAS!'
"we were building a natural social network with Xbox One in itself that didn’t require gamers to open their laptops/tablets to post to their other friends nor did they need to wrestle with keyboard add-ons. Each Xbox Live account would have a full “home space” in which they could post their highest scores, show off their best Game DVR moments, what they’ve watched via Xbox TV"And that's another problem. Nobody asked for that. We just want a system that can play videogames. if you want to make a social network/tv multimedia device, the JUST MAKE A MULTIMEDIA DEVICE all this extra nonsense with the TV/SPORTS and the Kinect shoots the price of the console up by 100$ for features I will never use. Understand the problem?
"We at Microsoft have amazing plans for Xbox One that will make it an amazing experience for both gamers and entertainment consumers alike. I stand by the belief that Playstation 4 is Xbox 360 part 2,"You say that like being the 360 was a bad thing. The 360 was a fine game console.
"while Xbox One is trying to revolutionize entertainment consumption." Nobody wants an entertainment revolution. all we want is something that can play videogames. If I want an entertainment box, i'll use a PC or TV or multimedia box.
"For people who don’t want these amazing additions, like Don said we have a console for that and it’s called Xbox 360."that's very rude, and infantile, and Don sounded very much like an upset child when he said that. because first of all, the 360 will not last forever. Once the Xbox One and PS4 come out, developers will eventually stop making games for it. Yeah thats nice. 'stick to this dead console if you don't like the new one' VERY "pro-gamer" of you!
And, it's funny you should say that, actually, Because you described the PS4 as "Xbox 360 Part 2" then told us to 'stick to the 360' which is exactly what people will do. stick to the 360 "part 2" that is the PS4.[/spoiler]