Yeah the company they saved when they were broke.
Things change and MS is still very profitable.
@dragon the whole point of the exclusives is to tie people down to a platform. Getting new customers isn't always the only choice.
For all those talking about Steam, isn't this an EA game and only playable on Origin?
@Deadpoolio You do know that most new movies these days come with a DIGITAL COPY. Also I rip all my movies to my hard drive. I have over a 1000.
I have spent a lot more on film that games and I own more than 300 games on 360 and 50 on PS3.
I do download movies online prior to release, but I also purchase the Media to get Commentaries and Bonus Features. The quality is a lot better on Blu Ray than a 1.5 GBA 1080P rip.
So I take a offense that you as...
Microsoft has Xbox Music Pass and sell on Demand Videos and they still include these features. These things were on PS3 already.
Features were clearly stripped to push an agenda.
Don't pretend it was to focus on gaming yet they add new non gaming features like Social functions yet remove popular ones such as these.
I'm pretty sure they already knew their customers wanted these things. They can see the stats of who is using it from those connected online.
These things are in $50 Blu Ray Players, $30 DVDs and was on the PS3 already.
If I was betting, these features were stripped on purpose to push another agenda.
@Pancit I'd rather watch on the big screen.
Edit: not sure why it created a new thread.
Considering I use my game console to stream movies and sometimes music this sucks. I even used it to play CDs occasionally. Too bad PS4 can't do any of this now. Don't see why this is nitpicking.
Of course I'll have my old 360 and PS3 still and the fully capable X1 for this, but you don't think it's a pain to switch consoles/devices for these features?
Also, what about making playlists for games? That's going to suck to lose.
I think you per month.
I tried to order this at around 10 AM and there is no shipping only store pickup. But not one store out of around the 20 locally listed had it available. Bait and switch.
If I ever wanted to buy music I'd buy it on CD at Amazon and get a free digital copy with the purchase. Or rip the CD to get the digital copy if I wasn't using Amazon. I want a hard copy of items I buy when possible. I hate DRM and despise using iTunes for anything. My digital copies for films are redeemed using Ultraviolet when possible.
Why not include something so simple. It's like the wii not doing DVD or Blu Ray because of proprietary discs. Pay the license ...
As least they are being original.
Without online coop.
Your comparing cheap Arcade games to Nintendo's biggest AAA title that will cost 10 times as much as those games.
In Scott pilgrims game they released a DLC to enable online.
I never bought DDN because there is no online option.
It's just inexcusable to not give the players the choice to play online or local. It's not that hard for a good developer to make competent online features. Nintendo just wants to be cheap and not add th...
Your argument makes no sense whatsoever.
If you have local and online, why again can't you play with your friend when online is an added option.
Nintendo just wants to be cheap and leave out features. Online as an option wouldn't prevent you from playing on your couch with a friend.
I think it will come back, but without the negative features people complained about.
Such as allowing digital purchases to be shared the same way, yet leaving disc based to stay the same as they are.
Essentially the best of both worlds.
Regarding music, if you buy the Cd on amazon they provide you with the digital copy for free. So buy there and get both versions.
I like the points much more because of all the discounts available for points to purchase.
And it was not difficult to convert the points to currency in your head. Though I preferred just seeing 600 points for an item as opposed to $7.50 because it was like I was not spending real money.
Actually the points convert to currency. So if you buy 1600 point card it will show up as $20 on your MS account.
I'm sure eventually they will release straight gift cards with the actually currency on them.
Update: according to Xbox Live’s Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb, the ban won’t be permanent, as he posted today on NeoGaf.