Gamers Petition Microsoft - "Bring Back Xbox One DRM!"

[MegaBassBX]

I never liked Xbox and I thought that this might be the Microsoft system that I will buy, but nahh it's shit in all levels.

 

[Attila13]

Well to be damned....What the Fuck is wrong with some people these days?

Spoiler: Gosh...

 

[431unknown]

Probably more Microsoft funded propaganda.

 

[Enchilada]

Some people want to watch the world burn.

 

[Mario92]

MS was taking step to right direction but took it too far and accidently stepped on their customers. They most likely but those DRM in becouse of used games and as mainly PC gamer these days I have seen that used games are bad for almost everyone but nobody sees that becouse of cheaper price tag on used game. Maybe it's good they took it out as then they would have full control over every game and less competition would have meant worse situation overall. Kinect is still bad though.

They really should make digital games somehow more desirable for customers so used games would vanish over time. Higher price with zero extra content with slow download servers doesn't sound so good compared to Steam with -75% sales almost daily, really fast downloads, autopatch and now with trading cards and all. PS+ on PS3 is definitly step for right direction and I actually upgraded my HDD becouse of it but I'm afraid with PS4 mandatory payment it may get worse.

 

[doorbell8423]

I............it's just...........I mean........who in the rig...............I can't bel.....................
What the FUCK! are you serious??? -.-

 

[Deleted member 473940]

I knew George Lucas wasnt happy when the DRM policies got removed!

 

[BORTZ]

I'm sorry, Gahars, I can't hear you over my PS4's freedom.

 

[chartube12]

I hope this is a joke, a stunt by MS for attention or others trolling.

 

[bowser]

MS just realized it's not going to be that easy to revert all the code and that they'll miss the launch date. So this is their excuse to go back to the original plan.

 

[calmwaters]

I always knew these young, hip gamers were full of crap; this just proves it. The only thing they care about is playing Call of Duty on Xbox Live. And, I also watched this video that said that these types of gamers couldn't even beat the first level of the original Mario Bros. game.

 

[Taleweaver]

MS just realized it's not going to be that easy to revert all the code and that they'll miss the launch date. So this is their excuse to go back to the original plan.

Yeah...that decision in the board room must have been a fun one:

director: guys...remember how you all said we'd reverted the DRM shit? Well...development says they can't revert those changes in time.
marketeer: what? who gave those geeks the right to an opinion? It's our job to market the thing and their job to build it in such way!
director: yeah...they've got opinions on your jobs as well. But that isn't changing the fact we're having a problem now.
marketeer 2: can't we just launch it the way it is? We'll just say it will be gone in a firmware patch down the line.
sales director: remember when I told you we had to do this thing called "selling" the console? We weren't kidding.
marketeer: he's right. We need to sway public opinions. The product doesn't need to be better...our audience needs to be dumber*. And on the internet, there's PLENTY of dumbness to go round.
director: ...you DO know who our core audience is, right? We didn't buy 300'000 servers to tidy up the office, y'know?
marketeer: sorry...I didn't mean it like that. I mean...we need to create something so stupid everyone will cling to it.
sales director: we tried that already. It didn't quite work. *looks kind of grimly at his laptop showing a windows 8 metro interface* In any case, I propose we delay the release.
director: ...so everyone and their dog will have a PS4? Or worse: a *spits out the word* wiiu!
marketeer 2: how about...a counter poll?
director: what?
marketeer 2: a counter poll. Get a petition started from people who actually WANT the DRM.
marketeer: I don't think the general audience gives a damn what the publishers want. In fact, what EA wants goes directly against what gamers want.
marketeer 2: I know that. But what if we made it look as if GAMERS wanted the online model?
director: not a bad idea. Development is yanking my chain all the time we should just say we're building steam on consoles. There'll be some interest.
marketeer 2: *sigh* I keep telling ya...if we mention steam publicly, people will start to compare. And they'll realise steam is better soon enough. As bad as the situation is, we don't want THAT.
sales director: so how is creating a poll going to create revenue? We'll be the laughing stock of the internet...more so.
marketeer: basic marketing, really: if you can't beat them, confuse them. At worst, this'll draw away attention from sony. But this will spur up online discussions on whether the xbox one's former policy is really that bad as w...I mean the internet made it out to be. Those who first hated it will have no idea what to say at this.
director: won't they be busy doing that "ROFL"-ing they like to do?
marketeer: erm...
marketeer 2: *pitching in* no! That's the beauty of it: in order to hate something, you need to rationalize the reasons for it. But we're not going by rationale. We're going straight for gut feelings.
sales director: you lost me.
marketeer 2: our department will be disguised as gamers. We'll borrow the way our current audience talk and dig in to popular memes to draw them to our side. A petition needs opinions on why it would be good to have your console online all the time. Instead of answering that, we'll just brag, intimidate and belittle everyone who disagrees. *getting up from his chair* In the end, it's about the GAMES, SUCKER!
director: this isn't a slogan brainstorm.
marketeer 2: *sits down* sorry.





*okay, this is a Dilbert line. But it fits so well.

 

[Rydian]

And, I also watched this video that said that these types of gamers couldn't even beat the first level of the original Mario Bros. game.

Was totally fake.

 

[Ethevion]

marketeer 2: *pitching in* no! That's the beauty of it: in order to hate something, you need to rationalize the reasons for it.

Rationalizing on the internet? I didn't know such a thing existed.

7/10 would probably read again.

 

[PityOnU]

Maybe not as related, I'm not sure why everyone thought that having the checks would disallow game rentals.

Ever heard of volume license keys? Or even better, they're just the same discs as retail, and RedBox/GameFly resets the key when the get it back.

Wow, that was real hard.

 

[calmwaters]

Was totally fake.

But still, I'd hate to think if it turned out to be real somewhere. Thank heavens this was fake.

 

[GamerzHell9137]

My antivirus says its a virus, dunno why.

 

[JoostinOnline]

I bet all the legit signatures on the petition are by Nintendo fans, hoping to remove some competition.

Speaking of which, I better go sign it.

 

[tbgtbg]

Some people want to watch the world burn.

And some people are just assholes. I'd put the pro DRM crowd more into that category myself.

 

[Jayro]

This is 2013, and I thought console makers knew how to release a console wiithout blowing it, but apparently only Sony knows how to do this properly... Sans releasing the Vita with no launch games...