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Postby grayfox » Fri Jun 07, 2013 9:07 am

has sony ever said if they have/do not have this bizarre no trading games policy that xbox one has implemented?
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Postby nakedlunch » Fri Jun 07, 2013 9:10 am

the no trade ins/used games will be fine assuming there's a marketplace like Steam constantly putting out great deals on older games

I have 0 faith in Microsoft doing that however
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Postby boonie » Fri Jun 07, 2013 9:16 am

yeah no ones gonna give a shit if they can pick up games for steam prices but there's no way microsoft will do that.
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Postby neopolitan » Fri Jun 07, 2013 9:17 am

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it's not as good, but it's worth it. a new expansion is coming out soon, and it looks fairly promising.
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Postby grayfox » Fri Jun 07, 2013 9:17 am

well i borrow games from my roommate/friends sometimes, so it sounds really god damn stupid to not be able to do that. i don't buy/sell games so i don't care that much. it's just a really bizarre concept to me.
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Postby boonie » Fri Jun 07, 2013 9:22 am

I think it's a bizarre concept to everyone and will pretty much kill the xbox
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Postby endoskeleton » Fri Jun 07, 2013 9:27 am

you'll still be able to share games with their "family" sharing system. it's the one good faith gesture from microsoft since you could theoretically split the difference on all your game purchases among 10 of your friends. but the rest is still a self-interest guided and publisher pandering closed loop of unnecessary protective measures. especially if they're not selling their console at a loss this time around
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Postby gambra » Fri Jun 07, 2013 9:37 am

Since the One is going to have so much software based DRM I have a feeling it'll all get hacked within a few months of launch making all of the restrictions in legit users seem ridiculous.
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Postby iambic » Fri Jun 07, 2013 9:40 am

pretty hard to hack it if requires you to log onto the Internet every 24 hours to play games
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Postby iambic » Fri Jun 07, 2013 9:45 am

a guy on neogaf put all articles that are out there about this in one post

http://neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php? ... st61948729
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Postby boonie » Fri Jun 07, 2013 9:47 am

I mean it's probably too late any way. I've owned both current xboxes but there's no way I'm buying this one.
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Postby boonie » Fri Jun 07, 2013 9:56 am

The hope is that Sony has watched the backlash and will come out without all this shit but I fully expect ps4 to shit the bed as well
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Postby iambic » Fri Jun 07, 2013 9:59 am

used games/DRM bullshit aside, though, Sony just seem to have their shit together strategically much more than Microsoft's bizarre bid to make everyone crowd around a single holy television again
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Postby Guffaw » Fri Jun 07, 2013 10:02 am

there's always the wiiU guys
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Postby grayfox » Fri Jun 07, 2013 11:24 am

iambic wrote:used games/DRM bullshit aside, though, Sony just seem to have their shit together strategically much more than Microsoft's bizarre bid to make everyone crowd around a single holy television again

yeah i don't really know what they were going for.

i'm just a bit worn on the xbox, i only got it because friends had it. now i can start fresh. and i've always prefered sony's exclusives
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Postby tex porneau » Fri Jun 07, 2013 11:29 am

gears 2 was the last exclusive on xbox that I cared about
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Postby grayfox » Fri Jun 07, 2013 11:32 am

halo to some, but i've never enjoyed the series.

i'm just tired of not being able to play mgs4 or mlb the show. also really want to play ni no kuni
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Postby a falsetto child » Fri Jun 07, 2013 11:35 am

Yeah, the lack of a decent baseball game on XBox for oh the last 5+ years or so has really sucked.
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Postby tex porneau » Fri Jun 07, 2013 11:37 am

i played halo thru 3 and stopped, but mostly because I realized shooters aren't really my thing.
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Postby kranky » Fri Jun 07, 2013 11:42 am

i would enjoy a good baseball game without having to get a ps3.
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Postby murray st. » Fri Jun 07, 2013 11:55 am

i think i'm gonna be perfectly okay with just owning a ps3 for the next two years
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Postby ifear » Fri Jun 07, 2013 12:12 pm

perhaps the most remarkable fuckup microsoft has made with this whole fiasco is the marketing - as has been said many times and in many places, for all we know the ps4 could have exactly the same restrictions but they've been in control of their own narrative; they've made it clear they're all about the games, given indie games a decent amount of airtime (admittedly only one game thus far, but they sure as shit didn't bring jon blow along for his winning personality) and not gone on about services that are sod all use outside of north america. clearly the technical guys have made it a gaming box first and foremost, but the marketing has been all about shit you can do with a raspberry pi and a webcam for a tenth of the likely price.

no, core gamers are by no means the biggest market for this, but dear god are they useful at generating buzz and given the shellacking xbone is getting from much of the press, losing their support could be fatal. and yes, sony dropped the ball on the ps3 at launch and rallied back, but it had blu-ray as a pretty decent usp and arguably did nothing quite as damaging as the various drm shenanigans microsoft has come up with.

partly i want xbox one to fail because i want the market to demonstrate that people won't wear this shit so there's an element of wishful thinking here, but i would genuinely be surprised if it doesn't turn out to be a costly failure.
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Postby Cronos » Fri Jun 07, 2013 12:22 pm

core gamers are the friends that casual gamers call to find out what next gen system they should be buying
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Postby endoskeleton » Fri Jun 07, 2013 12:25 pm

gog got project eden
http://www.gog.com/gamecard/project_eden

everyone should get it. only co-op game that ever mattered
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Postby murray st. » Fri Jun 07, 2013 12:26 pm

oh fuck i guess i have to buy a 3ds to play the new animal crossing tho
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Postby andrei » Fri Jun 07, 2013 1:18 pm

i really don't get animal crossing

jazzed for smt4 tho! and like i need to get donkey kong and luigi's manse and shit.
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Postby nakedlunch » Fri Jun 07, 2013 1:22 pm

animal crossing was great when the town was me and my 3 brothers competing for plaque naming rights in the museum but that was like 10 years ago
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Postby kranky » Fri Jun 07, 2013 2:05 pm

is that ps3 baseball game any fun or did they "keep it real" too much and it's just boring/frustrating
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Postby pablito » Fri Jun 07, 2013 2:23 pm

so it looks like i might have a chance to start long-term work in game design next year maybe
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Postby ifear » Fri Jun 07, 2013 2:45 pm

nice. where?
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