Is Microsoft Cheating there Cusumers?

Sir Godfrey

Sir Godfrey

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Is Microsoft Cheating there Consumers?

First off lute me say I am a Microsoft Devotee and I consider the Xbox consoles to be the best systems avaliable. However I would like to question Microsoft's marketing team on the newley released Xbox 360 Elite. Like many Xbox fans I bought the Xbox 360 Premium on day 1 and unlike many people I had very minor problems with the system. What is gotten me rather upset is that the newley released Elite comes with a 120G hardrive, new HD cables and it is rumored that the natorious and long awaited Halo 3 will play better on this paticular console. So the questions that imediatly hit me are; What was Microsoft thinking and do they care about there consumers?

Please post you opinions and comments weither positive or negative.


OCC: I will post my full opinion soon...
 
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Well, my short answer to your two questions would be:

1) Microsoft was thinking about making money and
2) No they only care about selling as many XBoxes as they can

It sounds like this XBox Elite is released to make people who have already purchased the xbox premium buy the elite, so they can make even more money by making the premium semi-obsolete in just months. So that's my analysis of their motives...

As you can probably tell, I'm not a fan of microsoft (yet sadly it's the only OS I really know well) and I'm even less of a fan of Bill Gates, so my opinion is certainly not a favourable one towards them. I'd be curious to see what the fans of microsoft think about this though.
 
Well I appreciate your comment and opinion and unfortunately I agree with you. I think this is another ploy for us Microsoft consumers to dish out cash. And though I love the Xbox and Xbox 360 consoles, I find this to be low blow to us fans.
 
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I recently read an article that said microsoft is banning ALL modified consoles that it detects from LIVE. I personally find it ridiculous and another attempt by Microsoft to turn itself into Big Brother within its domain of influence. But I dont play video games...

So what do gamers think about this? Do you see it as an attempt to protect against cheating? Are they cheating customers, i.e. making an attempt to curb your intellectual creativity in modifying your xbox (like I know many of my friends have and have not done anything illegal)?
 
Well I think this is a good move by Microsoft. I personally got sick and tired of people with Modified Xboxs cheating. It really made playing the games unenjoyable. So I actually am for there banning all modified Xbox players from Live.
 
oh okay, interesting. I guess if you see it that way, it's kind of a double edged sword: you take a freedom away (modding the xbox) because people are abusing it. Now there's much less cheating, but also less fun for some (modding the xbox). But it may be worth it on the whole, and it sounds like that's what your stance is.
 
If modding wasn't number 1: illegal and 2: cheating I wouldn't care. But it's a fact that it is both illegal and cheating. I admit it takes away freedom, but personally I don't think people need that freedom with there console. It is just to tempting to cheat and abuse the freedom.
 
As a side point, that's one rule that I think is absurd. Why does microsoft make modding the xbox illegal? If the individual bought the xbox, I think he should be able to tamper with it however he wants, (except of course if he cheats on those LIVE games). But does it make sense for them to make modding the xbox in any way strictly illegal?

Does nintendo make it illegal to mod the nintendo system? (this isnt a rhetorical question, i really dont know) is it only microsoft who makes these kinds of rules for their system or do other gaming companies follow suit?

maybe this is getting too off track, and I'll stop discussing this aspect if you want...
 
Modding has becoming a growing problem and it seems it can only be dealt with by putting strict rules into place. Modding always tends to end up in trouble, it's just to hard for people to not abuse it. I personally am happy with Microsoft's decision.
 
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