I'm glad Microsoft's creative director cares about the consumers.

[Something Amyss]

This is why I hate Twatter and other forms of social networking. It turns everyone including industry "professionals" into dipshits.

Really, it just shows the dipshit side that's already there.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

This is why I hate Twatter and other forms of social networking. It turns everyone including industry "professionals" into dipshits.

Really, it just shows the dipshit side that's already there.

Right, well either way I still hate it.

 

[Something Amyss]

Right, well either way I still hate it.

I'm sort of intrigued. I suspect it's a giant social experiment.

Though I don't have Twitter, and I would never link my personal Facebook to anything professional.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Right, well either way I still hate it.

I'm sort of intrigued. I suspect it's a giant social experiment.

Though I don't have Twitter, and I would never link my personal Facebook to anything professional.

Maybe, but constantly hearing about supposed professionals acting like children makes me want to facepalm so hard that my hand comes out the other side of my head.

 

[Something Amyss]

Maybe, but constantly hearing about supposed professionals acting like children makes me want to facepalm so hard that my hand comes out the other side of my head.

Yeah, you're right. It sort of makes me hate everyone.

But I'm still cleaving to the notion that I'm hating everyone...

FOR SCIENCE!

 

[Maximum Bert]

So the always online is definitely happening then? and I expect games will be locked to systems and of course you have to pay for Gold membership to be able to play anything or at least this is the way it seems to be going.

Oh well looks like I wont be getting the next Xbox then I just cant support that kind of crap its just not the direction I want to head in. Will have to stick with the PS4 and WiiU unless ofc they also decide to screw everyone over with extreme anti-consumer practices.

 

[ThriKreen]

Though it kind of boggles my mind when we apply the term "consumer" to goods and services that aren't directly "consumed", like games.

Well to be fair, movie, tv, theatre, music, concerts, books, and games, it's about "consuming" the experience offered by them, less so the material properties of the media it was delivered in.

The content maker can't exactly "take it back" once you've experienced it, much like how a baker can't take back a muffin once you've eaten it. Hence trying to apply physical properties to infinitely duplicated, virtual items via licenses and enforced by online authorization to lock down its usage.

Would be nice though, to be able to remove the memories of some really bad games from my mind and get a refund back.

 

[Atmos Duality]

Well to be fair, movie, tv, theatre, music, concerts, books, and games, it's about "consuming" the experience offered by them, less so the material properties of the media it was delivered in.

The content maker can't exactly "take it back" once you've experienced it, much like how a baker can't take back a muffin once you've eaten it. Hence trying to apply physical properties to infinitely duplicated, virtual items via licenses and enforced by online authorization to lock down its usage.

Would be nice though, to be able to remove the memories of some really bad games from my mind and get a refund back.

Fair enough.

I tend to see "consumption" in terms of resources, though if one wants to invoke economics, "opportunity cost" applies to everything and everyone.

Or how such a theory doesn't quite work, given that most of us don't know how much "time" we actually have, and whether one opportunity or another will cost us more/less of that time in the long run. (with the exception of obviously stupid risk)

But that goes much further into meta-thinking than I ever want to get, even for pedantry.