Xbox One Official Requirements: Waive Your Rights

[cracker]

It's almost as if MS is trying to create the perfect shitstorm of provocation to get the XB1 hacked as quickly as possible. I think for the people that were planning on attempting to hack it this will fuel their fires to work even harder exponentially. So a big thanks to MS!

Edit: ULLLLLTTTTTRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAA sadness until then.

 

[Sicklyboy]

It's almost as if MS is trying to create the perfect shitstorm of provocation to get the XB1 hacked as quickly as possible. I think for the people that were planning on attempting to hack it this will fuel their fires to work even harder exponentially. So a big thanks to MS!

Edit: ULLLLLTTTTTRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAA sadness until then.

Yeah but you have to convince the hackers to buy it in the first place now

 

[wartutor]

You're not thinking clearly....who would want to waste their time hacking something that nobody owns or cares about...you don't get a "hey good job man...I may ummm never use this" you just hear "uhhh why did you bother"...

joking aside (well only partially joking) I'm not really too into any of the two xbone or the giant crab (yeah I still haven't forgot what they did on ps3 with otheros...I've refused to buy a Sony product since...just used games at yard sells or gamestop...) just cause they say "hey we don't have drm" doesn't mean they won't add it down the road...Sony is like that...besides there both the same fps games that are the same just different levels and an occasional game in between (far in between) worth playing...maybe I'm the only one that misses the days when game developers had to be innovative and create something new and fun to play...not just slap a gun in your hand and have you run around shooting at joe smoe from god knows where and call that a hit...my wiiu was the best imo and still looks to be the best...

and what happened to playing 2 players with someone in the room...I have to sit and watch while someone else plays multiplayer or run to my house and login to play with them...least nintendo does that right

 

[MarioFanatic64]

At is point I'd choose an Apple product over an X-box. I've not purchased an X-Box before but I have played it casually with extended family.

But Microsoft has really lost its touch with consumers, logic and reality.

 

[FAST6191]

Yeah but you have to convince the hackers to buy it in the first place now

Shouldn't be a problem when they sit in the bargain bin/ebay post Christmas.

 

[Metoroid0]

I don't like hawing no or less options. I mean, if i want to play on CRT and don't have internet, then Microsoft should make a console where I can choose what I want.

If life is about learning, then I learned that new doesn't mean better.

It's like I said, I miss simpler times '80, '90...

You're not thinking clearly....who would want to waste their time hacking something that nobody owns or cares about...you don't get a "hey good job man...I may ummm never use this" you just hear "uhhh why did you bother"...

The one who have passion...

My thoughts on XBOX one so far

I don't get it, what is it with these companies that won't let you sue them if something gets fucked up? It's not right.

Like, I don't understand, how are they getting away with this? There has to be some sort of law against it.

They are protecting themselves like polar bears. I guess it's some kind of fear... That's in human nature i guess...
But it's the most annoying thing, AP thingy and all... i'm saying it always and i will said it again. I miss simpler times...

Much like Steve Ballmer's manhood. This won't alienate gamers at all!

Force people to get an HDTV? $300
Force people to get Broadband? ~$400-500/year depending on the ISP
Force people to to pay for a secure VPN? ~$200/year or so
Force people to use Kinnect and waive their personal rights? Priceless


Indeed, Microsoft has won the Scumbag Company of the Year Award. Props to them.

At least they are leaders in something xD

There are some things money can't buy. For everything else, there's Sony Computer Entertainment.

..Oh and Nintendo!
No gaming without Japan i guess

 

[Rydian]

...To be fair there's A LOT of shitty things you sign into and don't even know it. Hell you don't even own most of (if not any) of your video games; purely just license usage of them. You end up signing away a lot of your "rights" but you don't exactly care now.

Really this just kinda feels like rather nonchalant news brought to light more so for the Xbox One hate. Now it definitely deserves criticism, I think the console is pretty awful in a lot of respects and really steps on consumer feet, but I don't exactly think that clicking the little checkbox when you start up your Wii U or PS4 is any better.

Waiving the class-action rights is a recent thing and with those systems deals with the service, which is optional.

Here, it's not optional. You need to waive your rights to use the console at all.

 

[cracker]

At is point I'd choose an Apple product over an X-box. I've not purchased an X-Box before but I have played it casually with extended family.

But Microsoft has really lost its touch with consumers, logic and reality.

Hey now don't start talking desperate... Are you going to be ok man? Do you want to talk about it?

 

[regnad]

How can Japan not be on that list?!

 

[Metoroid0]

How can Japan not be on that list?!

Ahaha good question, wery good actualy!

 

[DiabloStorm]

waiving your class-action lawsuit rights upon activation of the console

I found that particularly hilarious. Their target audience must be complete impulse buyers that absolutely refuse to know a single thing about what they're buying into.

 

[SifJar]

I found that particularly hilarious. Their target audience must be complete impulse buyers that absolutely refuse to know a single thing about what they're buying into.

I disagree. I know plenty about the Xbox One (pretty much as much as is publicly known, I think), and none of it has done anything to discourage me from getting one.[I probably won't, because I don't like to spend that much money on one thing, especially when I doubt I'll get proper use out of it, but I would still be very happy about it if one came into my possession]

 

[DiabloStorm]

I disagree. I know plenty about the Xbox One (pretty much as much as is publicly known, I think), and none of it has done anything to discourage me from getting one.[I probably won't, because I don't like to spend that much money on one thing, especially when I doubt I'll get proper use out of it, but I would still be very happy about it if one came into my possession]

Okay, and why would you get one? You realize that your games library/console will be nothing but paperweights when they decide to discontinue their authentication servers permanently sometime in the future, right? Or are you willing to put $500 and your faith in Microsoft to do a 'final update' that removes their inane DRM? If so, that's laughable.

 

[Chiejina]

I guess no one in Africa plays Games either . That rules out bringing my console with me when visiting the homeland on vacations lol.

 

[Guild McCommunist]

Waiving the class-action rights is a recent thing and with those systems deals with the service, which is optional.

Here, it's not optional. You need to waive your rights to use the console at all.

You basically do the same thing with most any other console. The only difference is you do it when you start it up instead of clicking a little box.

I don't think that'll change any one's reluctance to buy (or not buy) a system. Oh no now I wave my rights when I start up the system not when I check a box when the system starts up!

Buying the system is optional. Don't buy it, that's a choice.

 

[1ManClan]

You basically do the same thing with most any other console. The only difference is you do it when you start it up instead of clicking a little box.

I don't think that'll change any one's reluctance to buy (or not buy) a system. Oh no now I wave my rights when I start up the system not when I check a box when the system starts up!

Buying the system is optional. Don't buy it, that's a choice.

Let's hope car companies don't decide to start doing what Microsoft is doing. I know it's a far stretch but it has to start somewhere. No way should it be legal for a company to say you're not allowed to sue us. That is ridiculous!

 

[Guild McCommunist]

Let's hope car companies don't decide to start doing what Microsoft is doing. I know it's a far stretch but it has to start somewhere. No way should it be legal for a company to say you're not allowed to sue us. That is ridiculous!

You've been signing away your rights to class action lawsuits long before the Xbox One.

 

[Metoroid0]

You've been signing away your rights to class action lawsuits long before the Xbox One.

You seems to like XBOX

 

[Guild McCommunist]

You seems to like XBOX

I don't like the Xbox I'm just not so fucking hellbent on whiteknighting against it.

Like if you don't like the console don't buy it. There are people who will want the console and they will buy it. I think it has A LOT that's wrong with it, but it also has some neat features (not that they overshadow the negatives) but it's worth acknowledging what's right and what's wrong with it, not just scraping around for any little garbage we can find on it so we can go "YEAH FUCK YOU MICROSOFT!"

My point is that people don't blink twice at a skipping through a terms of services and signing it, effectively signing away a lot of their rights, but when Microsoft does it it's so goddamn evil.

EDIT: Criticize them for what they do wrong that others don't do wrong, don't criticize them singularly for what everyone does wrong.

 

[TripleSMoon]

I don't like the Xbox I'm just not so fucking hellbent on whiteknighting against it.

Like if you don't like the console don't buy it. There are people who will want the console and they will buy it. I think it has A LOT that's wrong with it, but it also has some neat features (not that they overshadow the negatives) but it's worth acknowledging what's right and what's wrong with it, not just scraping around for any little garbage we can find on it so we can go "YEAH FUCK YOU MICROSOFT!"

My point is that people don't blink twice at a skipping through a terms of services and signing it, effectively signing away a lot of their rights, but when Microsoft does it it's so goddamn evil.

EDIT: Criticize them for what they do wrong that others don't do wrong, don't criticize them singularly for what everyone does wrong.

This.