A post a from XBox One "engineer"

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I actually have a lot of use for these things, the problem is I already do all these things relatively easily, just without voice control. You understand what I'm saying right? They are not a major selling point to me.

Also, I am one of the few on this board who was looking forward to Xbox, I like the idea of illumiroom and augmented reality, those appeal to me greatly. Tv, bluray, streaming, Internet, I already do these things. I don't need to purchase a $450 device that will let me do these things. I really detest the DRM shyt as I buy and sell used games. I also by online too and am an avid consumer. But hey, if its "fukk off and buy a ps4" than you know what, ok fukk you too MS.

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B.S. aside it does sound reasonable, AMBITIOUS, but reasonable. A few changes changes here and there and they're backin this thing.


It sounds great. Now they just have to walk the talk and price games at $5-$30.

AKA, they're full of shyt.

And again, NONE of what he's talking about requires a daily check-in.
 

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Fixed for truth and accuracy...

I didn't bother reading anymore after this point...

I won't even bother fully breaking down the complete idiocy of comparing the DRM-box to Steam...Steam doesn't have a service charge nor does steam charge me $70 a game...That is all I am going to say about that...

Steam also doesn't brick your entire PC if it doesn't sign in every 24 hours.

I mean if we're marketing the XBOX One as an all-in-one entertainment device, then it's basically a PC w/o productivity software, right?
 

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we got 4 threads shytting on xbox's right now, gat damn :heh:

i didnt know which to post this in, but for those wondering about people yelling xbox off in party chat

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:dead: That shyt is hilarious.
 

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I did read it, i just wanted some daps :ld:

until they change the drm shyt I aint coppin period... if ms servers get hacked or are down for a few days I cant play my console or the games I paid full price for :beli: nah son

You aint read all that sh*t in 1 min. C'mon son. :shaq2:

I dapped you though....

haha

But for real, you can't play ANY games if the MS servers are compromised? Even a sports game where you just want to get on and play the CPU?
 

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As star would say "nah nsh nikka I'm not a fancy nikka from harlem, miss me with all that fly jiggy nikka shyt"

Think I'd rather stick with discs thankyou very much, fukk all that 'convenience' bollocks

If I or any of my peoples lose any of my discs, I should suffer for my dumbassery

If xbox or my internet service fukks up, I cant play my games, for no fault of my own and I can't fukk with putting my faith in anything other than myself...especially fukking microsoft
 

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Bro
You can even play Steam offline

There's no excuses

Don't give MS your $$$

They will fix their always-connected problem.
 

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I skimmed though it :ehhh:
If you dont conect to ms servers within 24 hours you aint playin any games.. Not even single player. Not even the title screen my nikka...:mjpls:

Are you serious bruh? :russ:

EDIT: I just read that it has to establish a connection evey 24hrs. hahahahhaah. What about if ur internet goes out and the ISP can't send someone out to fix it for 3 days? You're gonna be sitting there with a big black brick box. :laugh: What about some 13-year old who goes to stay with his grandparents(who dont have internet) for a few weeks in the summer? He can't even take his system with him. hahaahhahahahhahahahahha

This is gonna be a blowout. Gonna be like :deadhorse:

Ppl better order their PS4's early b/c it's gonna be a drought. I might buy 2 and slang one for a profit.

@Rekkapryde we bout to win my nikka :smugfavre:
 
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you can still buy cds bruh..... and they still sell a good bit.

I don't see nothing wrong with having both instead of trying to force in one direction when the market isn't ready.

lol at the market isnt ready. thats how innovation is pushed. it gets PUSHED, not softly nudged.

and by the way you can still hold onto your disc....with a ps4. so go get that system. he just told you that. if you want to stay in the past, keep your 360 or get that new ps4. your choice.
 

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lol at the market isnt ready. thats how innovation is pushed. it gets PUSHED, not softly nudged.

and by the way you can still hold onto your disc....with a ps4. so go get that system. he just told you that. if you want to stay in the past, keep your 360 or get that new ps4. your choice.

So the ps4 won't have online purchasing/downloading?
 

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This is from: microsoft engineer on xb1 - Pastebin.com

" >The thing is we suck at telling the story. The whole point of the DRM switch from disc based to cloud based is to kill disc swapping, scratched discs, bringing discs to friends house, trade-ins for shyt value with nothign going back to developers, and high game costs. If you want games cheaper then 59.99, you have to limit used games somehow. Steam's model requires a limited used game model.

>The thing is, the DRM is really really similar to steam... You can login anywhere and play your games, anyone in your house can play with the family xbox. The only diff is steam you have to sign in before playing, and Xbox does it automatically at night for you (once per 24 hours)

>It's a long tail strategy, just like steam. Steam had it's growing pains at the beginning with all it's drm shyt as well. [...] For digital downloads steam had no real competition at the time, they were competing against boxed sales. At the time people were pretty irate about steam, (on ***** too...) It was only once they had a digital marketplace with DRM that was locked down to prevent sharing that they could do super discounted shyt.

>Think about it, on steam you get a game for the true cost of the game, 5$-30$. On a console you have to pay for that PLUS any additional licenses for when you sell / trade / borrow / etc. If the developer / publisher can't get it on additional licenses (like steam), then they charge the first person more. [...] If we say "Hey publishers, you limit game to 39.99, we ensure every license transfer you get 10$, gamestop gets 20$" that is a decent model... Microsoft gets a license fee on first and subsequent game purchases, compared to just first now? That's a revenue increase.

>Competition is the best man, it helps drive both to new heights. See technology from the Cold War. If we had no USSR, we'd be way worse off today. TLDR: Bring it on Steam :smile:

2/4

>Yeah we passed that around the office at Xbox. Most of us were like "Well played Sony, Well played". That being said they are just riding the hype train of ZOMG THEY ARE TRYING TO fukk US FOR NO REASON. Without actually thinking about how convienent it would be for the majority of the time to not find that disc your brother didn't put back... [...] just simpleminded people not seeing the bigger picture. Some PS4 viral team made them all "U TOOK R DISCS" and they hiveminded.

>Everyone and their mother complains about how gamestop fukks them on their trade ins, getting 5$ for their used games. We come in trying to find a way to take money out of gamestop, and put some in developers and get you possibly cheaper games and everyone bytches at MS. Well, if you want the @#$@ing from Gamestop, go play PS4.

>The goal is to move to digital downloads, but Gamestop, Walmart, Target, Amazon are KIND OF fukkING ENTRENCHED in the industry. They have a lot of power, and the shift has to be gradual. Long term goal is steam for consoles. [...] If you always want to stay with what you have, then keep current consoles, or a PS4. We're TRYING to move the industry forwards towards digital distribution... it'sa bumpy road

>Publishers have enourmous power. Microsoft is trying to balance between consumer delight, and publisher wishes. If we cave to far in either direction you have a non-starting product. WiiU goes too far to consumer, you have no 3rd party support to shake a stick at. PS4 is status-quo. XB1 is trying to push some things, at the expense of others. We have a vision, we'll see if it works in the coming years

>Living room transformation. We want to own the living room. Every living room TV with an XBox on input one. It's the thing that gives the signal to your TV, everything is secondary. The future, where games, TV, internet telephony, all that shyt happens magically on some huge ass screen with hand / voice gestures... That's our goal.


3/4

>Google TV + PS4 + Minority report level gestures, that combined with a sick second screen experience (which is really hot for TV, I know I know.. tv tv tv tv tv... but it's fukking sick when you have it). Games will be the same, there are more exclusives to MS then PS atm, and Kinect 2 makes Kinect 1 look like a childs toy.

>By default it's on, listening for "Xbox On". You can turn it off tho, and turn the console like OFF off. OFF off is required for Germany / other countries that require it (no vampire appliances) [...] It has to be plugged in for the console to post. You can turn off everything it does from the settings. Think of it like airplane mode for the iPhone. You can't just unplug the cellular radio, but you can turn it off.

>Instead of 10mins, is 24hrs for your console, and 1 or 2 at a friends house. Really the majority of people have a speck of internet at least once a day. And if you don't. Don't buy an Xbox 1. Just like if you didn't have a broadband connection don't get Live, and if you don't have an HDTV the 360 isn't that great for you either. New tech, new req. This allows us to do cool shyt when we can assume things like you have a kinect, you have internet, etc.

>Current plan is basically you're fukked after 24 hours. Yeah... I know. Kind of sucks. I believe they will probably revist the time period and / or find a diff way to "call in" to ensure you haven't sold your license to gamestop or something... but there is no plan YET. I'm hoping the change it, but I don't work on that so I don't have much influence there /sigh

>If the power goes out you ain't playing shyt. I'm assuming you mean the internet goes out but you have power for TV and Xbox. Yes, You're fukked for single player games. Again, that's the PoR (Plan of record), but I expect it to change after the e3 clusterfukk

>What fee? There is no fee to play your games at your friends house. Never has, never will. Even x360 digital downloads could do that.


4/4

>The cloud capabilities is the shyt they like the most. We basically made a huge cloud compute shyt and made it free. What people are doing with it is kind of cool. THe original intention was to get all the Multiplayer servers not requiring 3rd party costs (Like EA shutting down game servers to cut costs), as well as taking all the games that servers hosted by the clients (Halo, etc), and have all that compute done in the cloud allowing more CPU cycles for gameplay. That will really expand what developers can do. Anything that doesn't need per frame calculation and can handle 100ms delays can be shifted to the cloud. That's huge.

>SmartGlass + IE is going to be pretty freaking sweet. 1 finger cursor, 2 finger direct manip. Basically if you think of a laptop trackpad where your phone/ slate is the trackpad and the monitor is your TV... it's that. The tech is there, just needs to be applied. There is some really cool shyt going on with Petra + controllers that pairs people with controllers. So if person with controller two trades controlers with controller 1, their profiles magically switch. It's sick. What does this matter? Now if you lean left/right it knows which person is leaning, even if 4 people are all int he same room. It's awesome.

>New service using Azure for cloud compute. Allows developers to not use clients for hosting multiplayer servers, or other tasks that do not require per frame calcuations. It's pretty sweet.

>Honestly, if you care about anything other then pure games AT ALL. Xbox 1 > PS4. If all you do is play games, and nothing else, PS4.

This was all from the Microsoft engineer that was on /b/ last night.

>It's not worth my time to prove it, or risk my Job. I work in Studio A, 40th ave in Redmond, Wa. The thai place in the studio cafeteria has double punch wednesdays. Go ahead and call them and verify if you want."





Of course take this with grain salt but it actually puts it into perspective. It doesn't mean you have to agree. As I said before change the check in to a weekly check in, and find a easier way to sell used games.

P.S. If you can't discuss this with being a fanboy please don't post. Leave the talking to man. :win:


This is all that needed to be said.

fukk XBOX in this next gen





Sony...............I'm home!:blessed:


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