State of Decay wins this for me. Maybe Tomb Raider as a close second. And if DLC counts - Tiny Tina's pack for Borderlands 2

At $19.99 I also need to know when it will go on sale. I'd probably give em $9.99 for it. Price points are very different on iOS.

Well comfort is key when on your feet all day and it doesn't excuse him looking like a fool with his spin-o-rama move. But work appropriate clothes I think have a fine line and a lot of shades of grey.

Well subtle he ain't. But I'm not sure creepy, I guess that would be determined by the person he did the 180 for. He looks like a Desperate fool.

Wouldn't a professional environment work both ways? If at an office I don't think a woman would wear shorts that short Or an outfit that casual in general. Hr would talk to her as well about work appropriate dress.

I highly doubt this change was because of Internet whining. It was likely made over lagging presales. MS knows the numbers and that is probably what made them change their tune. Sure they then looked at possible reasons for the lag and rain to the 3 big gripes. Cost/forced Kinect, 24 hour check ins, and drm on used…

I think you are jumping to conclusions there. The only thing the press release states is the remove the family shares (which I was skeptical of in the first place) and taking you games anywhere digitally. Neither a make or break feature for most. I'm sure they still plan cloud gaming and updates if you are connected,…

If publishers are so hurt over used sales - isn't this feature even worse? For a SP game one sale could lead to 11 different people playing the game - the purchaser and 10 friends? So they can't play it at the same time but it seems this would get used much more than used games. It makes no sense.

No they wont. You would have to price such a thing inline with other monthly services like MMOs, Sirus, NetFlix, Hulu+, etc. which is the $10-15 range. don't forget this is pretty much a constant flow. $40 a month? No way.

I recall two specific holiday seasons where Live was not reachable - I was 2 weeks without being able to connect for one of them. The was a couple days, although there were some that had longer issues. If I recall it varied by cable company.

True - but connecting on my terms when I want content or to play MP games is very different than being required to check in daily or else my $500 device is useless.

I don't know about lying so much as if they were involved - voluntary or by court order - very few at MS (and the other companies), especially the PR dept, would even know. And since it is supposed to be a top secret program - they couldn't acknowledge it if they did know/participate.

I play mine offline when the cable goes out, or Live goes down, or I take it to the beach house ...

I'd argue that the uninformed buy is more likely influenced by the buzz. They'll see a few things about XboxOne is bad on twitter and facebook and not dig in at all. The power of one informed, but opinionated person to sway their circle of contacts is huge through social media.

How about -

How as consumers do "we overcome" these "challenges?"

You left out at least one option:

Having internet and having internet with the ability to be allowed to game on it and having enough speed to do so are very different things.

It doesn't take all 300,000 severs going down to bring down a network. Do you think when Live is down now that all the servers died? No, it can be anything from failed switches, hacks, software issues, construction cutting a line to a facility. There are host of things that bring down networks. Assuming the…

This. Other than when I've gotten new ones I don't think I have ever synched my 360 controllers. Maybe once or twice since launch at most. I think the author is doing it wrong.