Microsoft refers to core audience as "Sweaty thirty year olds in Metallica t-shirts"
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This is such bullshit. We're their fucking customers! Can you imagine a Budweiser employee going to a public event and saying beer's not just for pathetic drunk rednecks anymore. We're the ones who have been keeping gaming viable as an industry for the last 20 years. There would be no XBox without us. Where does a fucking computer company get off hijacking a medium that we've supported and helped develop since before our balls even dropped (or had our first periods or whatever). So are we just gonna sit here while we get blackballed from the community that we had everything to do with creating? This anti-gamer big 3 bullshit is starting to wear very very thin.
We need to organize. Seriously...
We need to organize. Seriously...
No, I wear Megadeth t-shirts.
Kidding. But still, that's stupid of you Microsoft. What if Kinect fails? You won't have a casual audience and your hardcore audience will hate you.
Kidding. But still, that's stupid of you Microsoft. What if Kinect fails? You won't have a casual audience and your hardcore audience will hate you.
Am I the only one who read that quote as Microsoft actually meaning more like they were in the context of challenging the stereotype that the "majority" have had with gamers for years? The angle they're going with Kinect further backs up that context, they want it to appeal to everybody (coughwiicough, sorry, had to) and they said it to illustrate that point.
This is odd coming from Microsoft as most game stores I've been in the past few weeks were full of 12 year olds drooling over the counter, per-ordering their copies of Halo: Reach.
I consider myself to be a hardcore gamer, and this sterotype insults me and my intellect.
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Oh, and MEGADETH ftw.
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Benmonkey7 said:
Something tells me that this is going to become a musical discussion.Galad said:
Oh, and MEGADETH ftw.
Wait why are we getting upset about this?
Microsoft said that gaming isn't for Sweaty 30 year olds in Metallica T shirts. How is that a bad thing?
There's been a steady uphill battle to prove that "gamers" aren't a bunch of socially retarded morons with the attention spans of Ritalin kids. So why does this statement suddenly make people upset?
Microsoft said that gaming isn't for Sweaty 30 year olds in Metallica T shirts. How is that a bad thing?
There's been a steady uphill battle to prove that "gamers" aren't a bunch of socially retarded morons with the attention spans of Ritalin kids. So why does this statement suddenly make people upset?
You've got to understand that there's far more profit for Microsoft in the casual games industry than sticking to the core. Cracking a joke at the expense of your fans and customers isn't much to them if it makes people willing to fork out money for that shit.Snarky Username said:
You people are all tools every single one of you. Get off of the Microsoft Hate-Bandwagon.
You SHOULD read this as a compliment. The line reads defying the stigma that THE PUBLIC applies to you, not Microsoft. Unless you are arguing that you are indeed a fat sweaty 30 something metallica t shirt wearing ingrate and are some how being offended by this.
Look at the context.
"Gaming's not just for sweaty thirty year olds in Metallica t-shirts"
Lemme break it down for you.
If it read "Gaming's just for sweaty thirty year olds in Metallica t-shirts" I wouldn't be posting this. And your hatemachine would be right. But there is some strong Keywordage in there known as the word NOT.
So, yes, please continue to hate microsoft on baseless internet hatemachine tactics and CONTINUE to define the stigma that in fact you all are sweaty thirty year olds in Metallica t-shirts.
You SHOULD read this as a compliment. The line reads defying the stigma that THE PUBLIC applies to you, not Microsoft. Unless you are arguing that you are indeed a fat sweaty 30 something metallica t shirt wearing ingrate and are some how being offended by this.
Look at the context.
"Gaming's not just for sweaty thirty year olds in Metallica t-shirts"
Lemme break it down for you.
If it read "Gaming's just for sweaty thirty year olds in Metallica t-shirts" I wouldn't be posting this. And your hatemachine would be right. But there is some strong Keywordage in there known as the word NOT.
So, yes, please continue to hate microsoft on baseless internet hatemachine tactics and CONTINUE to define the stigma that in fact you all are sweaty thirty year olds in Metallica t-shirts.