Athenor wrote: »

It's IGN and it's not a scientific poll. It can be safely ignored.

Its the overwhelming positivity in this discussion here and elsewhere that makes you think IGNs poll cant be accurate right?

Nitsua wrote: »

If no one has yet (I've read this entire thread and didn't see it), you should really check out Major Nelson's site www.majornelson.com
He had a half hour discussion on the Xbox One (my abbreviation would be XOne) that answers the questions some of you had about accounts. He obviously knows more, but can't say anything. It does shed some light on some things though.

The yahoo chat really raised some red flags for me. For example one question had an answer I found very discouraging, which I was bringing up last night but was essentially the couch coop question. He answered with "We are still working on some of our policies... But our goal is that it would work like it works today on Xbox 360."

Frankly, the absurdity of having the unclear initial statement instead of just saying "It will work like it does currently" is very worrying. It's like they are testing to see what they can get away with and adjusting to meet that. I so hope this is true and it really does just work like the 360 currently (I am perfectly happy with that). But this is make or break for me buying the console in the first place.

tastydonuts wrote: »

M-Vickers wrote: »

tastydonuts wrote: »

A spoonful of patience really goes a long way. Why would the chat rep know more than others? /boggle

"X360A attended a live screening of the reveal event hosted by Microsoft in London last night. After the event we cornered Xbox UK Marketing Director Harvey Eagle in the bar and asked him some questions about the new system. It wasn’t especially helpful."

They were talking to the head of UK Marketing. I think it's reasonable to think he'd know stuff.

Regardless, notice what he said:

"It’s hard for me to give you real examples today, mainly because I’ve not seen the system and how it works. I don’t want to make up stuff that I’m not clear on. The explanation for the achievement system and how it works will come later on."

People need to chill the hell out, ffs.

Badgering the shit out of the reps and stuff until they spit out some semblance of an answer is part of the reason we have so much garbage and conflicting information already.

Personally after however many years and months of preparation they have had, you would have figured them to be intelligent enough to have worked out simple answers to simple questions, instead of an endless spiraling out of control sense of confusion because they can't give a straight answer.

I am in no way sympathetic to them making their own mess whatsoever.

tastydonuts wrote: »

Aegeri wrote: »

tastydonuts wrote: »

M-Vickers wrote: »

tastydonuts wrote: »

A spoonful of patience really goes a long way. Why would the chat rep know more than others? /boggle

"X360A attended a live screening of the reveal event hosted by Microsoft in London last night. After the event we cornered Xbox UK Marketing Director Harvey Eagle in the bar and asked him some questions about the new system. It wasn’t especially helpful."

They were talking to the head of UK Marketing. I think it's reasonable to think he'd know stuff.

Regardless, notice what he said:

"It’s hard for me to give you real examples today, mainly because I’ve not seen the system and how it works. I don’t want to make up stuff that I’m not clear on. The explanation for the achievement system and how it works will come later on."

People need to chill the hell out, ffs.

Badgering the shit out of the reps and stuff until they spit out some semblance of an answer is part of the reason we have so much garbage and conflicting information already.

Personally after however many years and months of preparation they have had, you would have figured them to be intelligent enough to have worked out simple answers to simple questions, instead of an endless spiraling out of control sense of confusion because they can't give a straight answer.

I am in no way sympathetic to them making their own mess whatsoever.

Because people are so handicapped by this instant gratification mentality that "details are forthcoming" is no longer an intelligent response? /boggle

No, because having straightforward non-confusing answers to simple questions is a basic expectation of the company. Microsoft are, in every single way, making their own mess. Nobody else is. Not the press, not journalists and not anyone. Microsoft are entirely to blame and they have no excuse for any of the confusion on the numerous issues they have made problematic.

To me, this shows incredibly poor planning or a lack of any real direction for the console. Neither of these are good things for the console.

Edit: And most importantly, when you aren't going to give answers at least making sure you aren't inherently contradicting what someone else said would be a brilliant start.

TheSonicRetard wrote: »

What happens when college dorms dint let you connect your console to the internet? As many already dint. You may point to the red ring as an example of bad press, but that still only affected a minority of people in a dorm room. When entire campuses can't use the new Xbox, you don't think that'll hit harder than the red ring?

And these are your classic dude bro gamers who buy call of duty every year. Plus at my university, the Xbox one won't be able to get on the net every 24 hours for the usual consoles event every Friday, so it won't be there,