The technology is here, and has been for some time. It’s people’s access to the technology (i.e. Internet speeds) that keeps it on the shelf. If everyone had access to fast internet (say 30Mbps+) then game streaming would have been a done deal years ago.

You’re still going on about “anti-consumer” but never explaining why. Maybe because you don’t know the meaning of the phrase?

Why wouldn’t they return to Xbox? If this generation showed us anything it’s that a convincing argument will make people switch platforms. For the most part the 360 won the last generation, and a lot of those people jumped ship to the PS4. Whats to say the opposite can’t happen this generation?

How exactly are XBL and PSN anti-consumer? Because they cost money? And by your logic, based on how Sony handled the PS3 people are idiots for buying the PS4?

Because the ecosystem is more than just games and hardware, it’s services too. MS lost the hardware war handily this generation (mostly due to stupidity), but the services and backend continue to be miles ahead of everyone else. That combined with xcloud (if it turns out as described) makes for several solid reasons…

Anyone who builds software knows that having ‘unlimited’ of something is generally a bad idea.

Do or die for Halo, not necessarily Xbox as a brand/service. That’ll be around forever.

Epic’s exclusives put their games behind potential real money barriers.

Look at it from a layperson’s perspective. You can open pretty much any other cap with a hot engine with little consequence: washer fluid, brake fluid, power steering fluid, oil fill cap, transmission fill plug, gas cap.

Because according to your logic they’re not by saying their platform doesn’t allow for “free speech”.

You’re an idiot. You can’t just ignore the 100+ years of case law that has set precedent since the constitution was written.

Different MS now than the one that was at the helm during Scalebound.

Second they are not a publisher and therefore by law as a platform and self proclaimed platform in public as well, have to allow all speech, period end of discussion

1. The only one with the tiny mind here is you.

3 decades here, and the only thing I’ve seen work are permanent bans. Which I think MS has done in the past by banning actual consoles in addition to accounts.

XBOX live is a free-speech platform because all American platforms must naturally allow for it. 

I wouldn’t call it a solution, but a workaround. There is no quick fix, and we all know that these issues aren’t going away anytime soon but at the same time they can’t sit around and do nothing. And account bans likely won’t help as much as people think either.

I wouldn’t call it a “guide” as much as being clear on what will get you in trouble. They know people are going to be people (i.e. shit talking is just part of our nature with anything competitive) and drew the line in the sand.

Sounds like you don’t understand the message.

We’ve come a LONG way in a relatively short period of time, and I was probably the only guy who had Xbox memory cards because of my paranoia of data loss. Even though the Xbox and the 360 shipped with an HDD, I would backup my saves on memory cards religiously. At least until the 360 supported external storage.