Topic: Official XBox E3 Thread

[Zandrax]

If they said "games will be twenty quid cheaper bought online" I'd have signed up. New release Games on Xbox live are more expensive than in brick and mortar shops here. They educated people not to think there was an advantage to buying online.

That's what I figured the point would be. It would be like Steam for your console.

[A Very Smug Bear]

If they said "games will be twenty quid cheaper bought online" I'd have signed up. New release Games on Xbox live are more expensive than in brick and mortar shops here. They educated people not to think there was an advantage to buying online.

Exactly...they can't expect people to spend $60 on a game that came out 2 years ago when the publisher doesn't have to pay to print the disc and distribute it....I'm looking out you 50 Cent Blood in the Sand, you piece of shit.

[RealMarchHare]

I don't give a flying fuck about sharing games with my friends over the internet if I can't go into a store and by a used game on the cheap...doesn't even come close to comparing.

You do realize that the sharing games with up to 10 friends would allow all 10 of you to split the cost of a game and then have access to it?  So what's cheaper?  10 friends splitting a $60 launch day game thus paying $6 each and all having access to it or you waiting months down the rode to get it for $20 - $30 used?

[SupTool]

You do realize that the sharing games with up to 10 friends would allow all 10 of you to split the cost of a game and then have access to it?  So what's cheaper?  10 friends splitting a $60 launch day game thus paying $6 each and all having access to it or you waiting months down the rode to get it for $20 - $30 used?

Good theory on paper, but the likelyhood of all that happening wouldn't be as good as you think

[Zandrax]

Microsoft has never been very good at communicating/marketing their stuff. Prime has several Windows Phone stories.
 
Again, I'm probably a good year away from getting any new systems, so this has zero effect on me at this point.

[tdub2.0]

You do realize that the sharing games with up to 10 friends would allow all 10 of you to split the cost of a game and then have access to it?  So what's cheaper?  10 friends splitting a $60 launch day game thus paying $6 each and all having access to it or you waiting months down the rode to get it for $20 - $30 used?

you live in some kind of video game fantasy land

[FreebirdSTF]

I cannot believe MS walked away from such obviously necessary and practical requirements for their gaming system.

[DocSavage]

So ms has a Live sale.  Tried making a purchase, and was declined, then found out debit cards aren't accepted on Live.  Mine's a combination debit/credit card, which works fine with anything else, including Steam, so I can only assume the restriction applies to combo cards, and not only pure debit cards..


And this is provably why: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1354490/Boy-11-racks-1-000-mothers-debit-card-playing-XBox-online.html


I can probably work this through, but too much effort..  MS will never compete with Steam with these sorts of problems, because Steam doesn't cater to the angry parents and childproof their service to the point even adults who pay the bills have to spend 40 minutes on one purchase.

[RealMarchHare]

I have a Debit/Credit Card and have no issues using the Xbox Live Marketplace.  Is your's Visa?

[DocSavage]

I have a Debit/Credit Card and have no issues using the Xbox Live Marketplace.  Is your's Visa?

Mastercard.

And I just bought Prey, Bulletstorm, C&C Red Alert 3, and Perfect Dark Zero.   

From the Xbox site via my laptop did the trick, where my tablet and attempted purchase direct on the Xbox failed.

Weird that it won't work on the Xbox, though.

[RealMarchHare]

Yea that is a little odd.  Might be because it's Mastercard *shrug*

[DocSavage]

Added Crysis to the pile.

Because why not make it an even 20?

Crysis and Bulletstorm are virtually polar opposites, with one having an emphasis on cutting edge realism and open world exploration with a sci fi bent, and the other being a completely over the top on rails arcady experience.

Not sure which I prefer, but they're almost incomparable..

[Prime]

More info on the new XBox game sharing:

http://m.wpcentral.com/microsoft-announces-home-gold-xbox-one-enables-sharing-games-and-benefits

[Freakshow]

If one user on an XBox One has a Gold account, all other users on the given system have Gold privileges.

This alone rules and adds amazing value to having a Gold account.

[RealMarchHare]

Soooo announcing what they had already announced it was going to do but everyone fucking ignored and instead bitched about something they didn't have the brains to understand.

*sigh*

[Freakshow]

Kinect now not required to use the XBox One.

I'd not be surprised that, after the pre-Orders ship, we start to see Ones shipping without the Kinect hitting the shelves.

Next thing I'd like to see?  You know how they're using pass-through HDMI tech for TV recording?  Why not have the same thing, but between the XBox One and the 360?  Fire up your One, select the 360 App, now you can play your 360 games through the One.

[Prime]

Apparently there are still no plans to separate the Kinect from the X1 bundle. It would certainly help bring the cost down, but Microsoft considers it a "valuable" feature as part of the whole experience.

http://winsupersite.com/xbox/now-xbox-one-will-work-without-kinect

[Chus-Kay]

we dont even use our kinect anymore.

[RealMarchHare]

Kinect now not required to use the XBox One.

I'd not be surprised that, after the pre-Orders ship, we start to see Ones shipping without the Kinect hitting the shelves.

Next thing I'd like to see?  You know how they're using pass-through HDMI tech for TV recording?  Why not have the same thing, but between the XBox One and the 360?  Fire up your One, select the 360 App, now you can play your 360 games through the One.

I'm pretty sure it's been made known you will be able to do that.  I might be wrong though.

we dont even use our kinect anymore.

That's because nobody makes any games worthwhile for it and have no reason to when Kinect owners are probably less than 50% of 360 Owners.  If everybody has one because the system comes with it you'll see developers putting actual effort into the implementation of that technology.

[Chus-Kay]

well, our issue is also space.  in our game room, we have BARELY enough room from the kinect to the couch and many times i (with a longer stride than the kids) step back into the couch.

[RealMarchHare]

The Kinect 2 has been completely redesigned.  It doesn't need the insane amount of space the current Kinect does.  It really only needs about 4ft, if that, now.  Again, this is all information that was put out when the X1 was announced but the population just ignored it in favor of raging about shit they didn't even understand.

[Linus]

The Kinect 2 has been completely redesigned.  It doesn't need the insane amount of space the current Kinect does.  It really only needs about 4ft, if that, now.  Again, this is all information that was put out when the X1 was announced but the population just ignored it in favor of raging about shit they didn't even understand.

[size=78%]MS put out a shitty message in a shitty way and people didn't react well. Bitching and grousing about how people didn't understand or like what a company with a multimillion advertising and messaging budget said just makes you seem more like a fucking cunt.[/size]

[RealMarchHare]

I don't know how you can view the original press release documentation with itemized bullet pointed lists of the features and capabilities a shitty way of dispensing information?  Defending people who chose to remain ignorant and not actually research a topic sounds like a much better way to makes one out to be a fucking cunt.

[Zandrax]

I still say that it seems the majority of the naysayers got their info from blogs and social media posts, not from the source material. I fail to see how that is still Microsoft's fault.

[DocSavage]

That's probably true....   

If a popular blogger gets a detail or two wrong, plus interjects his opinion, and that gets passed along to who rely on a blogger to condense a story for them without bothering to check it themselves (Not to mention, bloggers often pass posts from other bloggers between each other..)

It can become like an internet version of "telephone".