purbeast0
No Lifer
- Sep 13, 2001
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I've railed (not so much complained, just refused to buy into it) against it and continue to do so. I'm probably a small niche though as there is so much PC online content for free that I see no need to pay for such a system as an extra layer. This was my #1 reason for not purchasing an Xbox 360. I had an Xbox (orig), but I never once went online with it. There is plenty of single player content. The catch will be when every single player game starts requiring useless online content which in turn forces you to pay for it. We all saw this coming, and it's complete and utter BS.
You can't tell me that MS touting the 4x power of the cloud etc had no direct correlation to forcing people to pay for live on the Xbone. I am sure with their "change of heart" (lawl) they are scrambling to find a new model/reason for this to happen. Since MS got away with charging for it last gen, of COURSE Sony is going to do it this time. That's how it works. Had no one bought into XBL, we wouldn't be paying for online games at all right now. Blame the people who bought into it the first time. This is why the backlash that occurred after E3 was so important. It was going to set another new precedent. Before you try to say, but look how bad (Nintendo/PS3 online) is, think about the PC who has more or less cheaper games and who's servers are controlled by the publishers vs the console makers. Why exactly is there an additional layer needed for consoles?
I will be waiting it out to see how devs handle these new systems. I think with the backlash that MS got at the beginning, most of them should shy away from needless online locking of single player games.
this is news to me - so ms requires xbl for xbox1?