'Sony forced Microsoft's hand, not the internet whining', - Bleszinski
Microsoft today announced the complete withdrawal of the Xbox One's controversial used game restrictions and internet requirement for online license checks once every 24 hours - policies which Bleszinski bullishly defended on multiple occasions.
The platform holder said the changes came "as a result of feedback from the Xbox community," handing vocal internet communities a victory of sorts in their backlash against the corporation's original plans. But Bleszinski says it was Sony's largely DRM-free PS4 - and not the voice of the community - which forced Microsoft into the policy changes.
"Sony forced Microsoft's hand, not the internet whining," said Bleszinski via Twitter.
The designer also commented, "At the end of the day many hardcore dislike what was attempted. You can't do well in that space with many of your core unhappy. Especially when users have a choice. The nature of capitalism encourages competition and Sony played into that."
The original DRM proposals would have brought with them the infrastructure for Microsoft to channel some of the money made from used game sales back to publishers. But with that prospect now seemingly gone, Bleszinski believes publishers will only accelerate their efforts to maximize profits using DLC, micro transactions and "tacked on multiplayer".
"Brace yourselves. More tacked on multiplayer and DLC are coming," he said. "You're also about to see available microtransactions skyrocket.
"You're going to see digital versions of your favorite games with added 'features' and content to lure you to digital over disc based. 'Do whatever it takes to keep that disc in that tray' is the mantra of developers in a disc based world," Bleszinski went on.
"I want *developers* who worked their asses off to see money on every copy of their game that is sold instead of Gamestop. Fuck me, right?" he commented.
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FoolishPosted:
Euler To be honest I think it will have been a mixture of Sony and the internet going mad!
Yeah, it wasn't all Sony.
EulerPosted:
Artro I won't like the new changes, I mean almost everyone who will buy this console will have internet..
I know, it's still better to have the option though. Even though if you don't have the internet nowadays, you need slapping
EulerPosted:
BDB I believe we did ;) They must care more about their customers then about their concurrents.
Exactly. Who are they going to listen to more, the people who will make any criticism they possibly can about the console? Or the people who will actually be buying the console...
EulerPosted:
BDBlelimgur I don't care who did it, they fixed the Xbox One, that's all I care...
you got a point there. Even though it probably was the internet complaining :P
I know right, customers < concurrents.
That is very true. It doesn't matter what happened for them to make these changes, the point is, the changes were made for the better!
MentalistPosted:
lelimgur I don't care who did it, they fixed the Xbox One, that's all I care...
you got a point there. Even though it probably was the internet complaining :P
I know right, customers < concurrents.
MentalistPosted:
I believe we did ;) They must care more about their customers then about their concurrents.
neboPosted:
imgur I don't care who did it, they fixed the Xbox One, that's all I care...
you got a point there. Even though it probably was the internet complaining :P
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