More XBox Rumours...Constant Internet Connection Required

biron_w · 5 Apr 2013 at 23:27

Mr Men said:
I really can't recall never being able to sign into Live.

I can. There's been a few times when Live has been down.

Mr Men · 5 Apr 2013 at 23:30

biron_w said:
I can. There's been a few times when Live has been down.

a few times in 10 years? oh noes

inam22 · 5 Apr 2013 at 23:33

If your interent is down for couple of days that means you can't play the games as well :confused:

Spinal2k2 · 6 Apr 2013 at 00:05

Mr Men said:
a few times in 10 years? oh noes

a few times is more than enough for a console that always wants an always on connection.

Disaster · 6 Apr 2013 at 03:05

mmj_uk said:
I hope they have good firewalls & DDOS protection, imagine the fallout whenever their servers get attacked. Sony will probably hire Anonymous.

People have tried and failed, the security on the 360 has been second to none.

WatchTower · 6 Apr 2013 at 07:21

I'm getting a PS4

Dealwithit

Mr Men · 6 Apr 2013 at 08:43

Spinal2k2 said:
a few times is more than enough for a console that always wants an always on connection.

Yeah totally agree I am deffo not buying one just in case it goes down for 5 mins once a year, that will show them

mmj_uk · 6 Apr 2013 at 10:49

Disaster said:
People have tried and failed, the security on the 360 has been second to none.

There's been little reason to attack Xbox Live so far.

pioneer2000 · 6 Apr 2013 at 10:56

Who is it benefiting exactly? Purely being done to try to prevent piracy. Thanks guys.

Broken Hope · 6 Apr 2013 at 11:02

UPDATE: Microsoft has issued a formal apology for "the inappropriate comments" of Microsoft Studios creative director Adam Orth in relation to his recent 'always-online' Twitter debate.

"We apologize for the inappropriate comments made by an employee on Twitter yesterday," said the platform holder in a new statement.

"This person is not a spokesperson for Microsoft, and his personal views do not reflect the customer centric approach we take to our products or how we would communicate directly with our loyal consumers. We are very sorry if this offended anyone, however we have not made any announcements about our product roadmap, and have no further comment on this matter."

They don't deny anything.

Mr Men · 6 Apr 2013 at 14:04

They have nothing to deny and all these rumours are getting their machine talked about more than the announced PS4

TheVoice · 6 Apr 2013 at 14:17

Mr Men said:
Yeah totally agree I am deffo not buying one just in case it goes down for 5 mins once a year, that will show them

There's no need to be facetious; whether you've experienced it or not, Xbox Live does go down every so often and it's not just for 5 minutes at a time.

Which is acceptable, as long as your console doesn't rely solely on that service being there in order for it to function. If it does, that's when people will start having problems with it.

Mr Men · 6 Apr 2013 at 14:19

TheVoice said:
There's no need to be facetious; whether you've experienced it or not, Xbox Live does go down every so often and it's not just for 5 minutes at a time.

Which is acceptable, as long as your console doesn't rely solely on that service being there in order for it to function.

Do you have a list of times it's gone down and for how long?

StriderX · 6 Apr 2013 at 14:56

Mr Men said:
Do you have a list of times it's gone down and for how long?

Lol, so die hard in defending something that you would become annoyed at if it occurred anyway.

Once is enough, its only mildly acceptable today because...we can actually play our games, get this...offline.

We all have the right to a service that is promised to us, the unfortunate thing for Microsoft is that their crappy EULAs have never been tested in court in Europe, in fact Europe puts Digital Consumer Rights above them. ( The US has seen some action with these agreements, but even there its contested that they even have any power at all)

So if they ever went down, they would be going into a world of hurt, that i would love to see.

Mr Men · 6 Apr 2013 at 15:00

StriderX said:
Lol, so die hard in defending something that you would become annoyed at if it occurred anyway.

Once is enough, its only mildly acceptable today because...we can actually play our games, get this...offline.

We all have the right to a service that is promised to us, the unfortunate thing for Microsoft is that their crappy EULAs have never been tested in court in Europe, in fact Europe puts Digital Consumer Rights above them. ( The US has seen some action with these agreements, but even there its contested that they even have any power at all)

So if they ever went down, they would be going into a world of hurt, that i would love to see.

I am just curious as I have never had any problems that I can recall signing into Live, my ISP has gone down a few times and yes it's annoying but I don't see it as the end of the world and would not put me off having the internet.

Sounds like you have some issues with MS though.

TheVoice · 6 Apr 2013 at 15:03

Mr Men said:
Do you have a list of times it's gone down and for how long?

No. I'm sure there's one out there though, feel free to look for it.

Soulja · 6 Apr 2013 at 15:03

Wasn't there a problem a couple of years ago where live was down for a week or so? I'm sure it was around xmas time.

MrMarvelous · 6 Apr 2013 at 15:04

I don't think that Microsoft really cares about smart peoples opinion anyway. regardless of what it has people will still buy it.

Mr Men · 6 Apr 2013 at 15:11

TheVoice said:
No. I'm sure there's one out there though, feel free to look for it.

Ah sorry I thought you had some knowledge of it going down and how often, so your comment was based on nothing?

dannyjo22 · 6 Apr 2013 at 15:14

MrMarvelous said:
I don't think that Microsoft really cares about smart peoples opinion anyway. regardless of what it has people will still buy it.

I'm still not convinced it will have it, but if it does then yes people unaware will buy it anyway. I would be aware and just buy the Ps4. Those that are unaware and would then find they needed a connection and didn't have one/want one would be complaining. You can already see it on watchdog as this gens whinge like the rrod was before

I think we are a gen away from having wide enough stable coverage in this country to have an always on connection that would be a detriment to their console sales. Of course they are building consoles for more than the UK and if they think it's good enough so be it, I will just buy from someone else until my coverage is better or I move house.