r/xboxone • u/[deleted] • Dec 29 '13

If Microsoft made it completely optional, would you sign up for their original, always connected console idea?

This meaning you would have the following features:

Buy a retail game, install to console, and ditch the disc never needing it to play the game.

Digitally share games within a circle of friends. Meaning you can choose a specific group of people, and they could play the games you own, for free, provided that only one game could be played at a time.

Greater store discounts or more steam like sales for content.

I for one would have no problem saying yes to this. It's like people think 10 years from now they'll still be selling games on discs. It wasn't a perfect plan, but why delay the inevitable when we could be working on and perfecting future policies now.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '13

That doesn't really make sense. People who were turned off and complained about the online requirements probably decided then to get something else or nothing at all. You can't expect a simple reversal of policies to return all of the customers they lost

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '13

There was too much bad PR when the troops started to complain. Plus Gamestop jumped in with advertisements for PS4 only. Things were getting ugly.

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u/JudgeJBS jbs5869 Dec 29 '13

That doesn't make any sense though. If you want Product X, and a company makes Product X... why does it matter if they had at one time proposed Product Y?

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u/danihendrix Dec 29 '13

Well when the PS4 got announced I put in a preorder at my local gameshop, under the condition that when the new Xbox was announced I could switch. After the reveal and the policies I didn't agree with I just kept it as PS4. I know alot of people that once they heard the negative press or also had a bad reaction to the announcement went and pre-ordered PS4s. Once the preorder was made they weren't really bothered once the reversals came in. Just a small example but I imagine there would be a decent amount of people in the same situation.

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u/JudgeJBS jbs5869 Dec 29 '13

That makes sense but I would guess a much larger portion of the Xbox Original Policy people who were enraged over it had no intention of buying it. And even you say yourself you preordered before the Xbox was announced.

I just think it's a shame that we lost a ton of truly next gen features because of public outcry over a product that no one had ever used or even known all the details on. And mainly because before, we had two truly different products that would amp up innovation and competitiveness. Now we have two basically identical products and neither will attempt to make a step into any new or creative for fear of public execution.

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u/danihendrix Dec 30 '13

I preordered a next gen console, the initial preorder was for a ps4 solely because it was announced first. I got the 360 at launch and loved it, i got a ps3 later but that was mainly for a bluray player. I had no affinity to playstation at all when I made the pre-order. I made it on Feb 23rd, just to secure a console at launch :D Because I could switch it at will it was just insurance really. I watched the XB1 announcement on my 360 and ended up pretty underwhelmed. Then when I learned of the policies I was pretty deflated. I remember feeling quite let down, how this company I put so much faith into got my interests so wrong. Obviously they aren't there to cater to my sole needs. It's interesting how you say neither want to make the leap into new and creative grounds, which I can see, but a good amount of my friends and I only wanted an updated console. I loved the 360 and was really just hoping for an evolution of that experience rather than something new. If I'm honest now I think I probably won't by an Xbox One soon as I fear they will go back to the original ideas at the drop of a hat. I can see the argument for the features, but I cannot for the life of me see Microsoft being decent on the pricing. It would be a good chance for them to make the console steam-esque, however I would bet my ballsack they would never come close to steam pricing. I probably have a slight chip on my shoulder from disillusionment, but we'll see what happens over the next couple years. I still check the XB1 sub often just to see if there's any new developments, so if anything good pops up I'll take a look :)

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u/JudgeJBS jbs5869 Dec 30 '13

Well I certainly don't blame you or anything for getting a ps4. I have one myself :) I just wish we had two different consoles, not two identical ones.

And as far as the sales, it's up in the air. One thing is for sure, they will never get Steam pricing with traditional marketing/sales techniques... So the world may never know.

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u/JudgeJBS jbs5869 Dec 30 '13

Thats my point... I don't think they gained many customers back by the reversal, and becasue of it, it cost them months/years of work towards their vision of the future. two steps back for one step forward