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The awkward moment happened during a Killer Instinct demonstration at last weekend’s EVO, when console accessory manufacturers Mad Catz and Double Helix showed off their upcoming gadgets for the game. The Xbox One got mentioned and was booed off the stage.
Xbox One Gets Booed Out of EVO 2013 [YouTube, via Polygon]
Let me make an analogy.
Me: I’m going to punch you in the face!
You: I really don’t want you to do that.
Me: Okay, I will no longer punch you in the face. Hey, why aren’t you expressing your gratitude? I’m doing you a favour!
MS don’t deserve credit for not f**king with gamers. At very best, they can hope for a neutral response at this stage.
His analogy was perfectly apt. But, if it’s hyperbole you want:
Xbox One President Hitler: I’m going to kill you and your family and fuck all the corpses.
Wheelchair Orphan Little Timmy: Please don’t, I’m already having such an awful time with the AIDScancer.
Xbox One President Hitler: Okay I won’t do that. NOW BOW DOWN TO ME.
To quote a fellow Kotaku poster last time this dumb analogy was brought up:
“@redxian JUNE 20, 2013 11:59 AM
Assuming for a moment that the policies are a punch in the face (i’ll get to why it isn’t later). Microsoft only stated they intended to do it. So in that circumstance case it would be like someone telling announcing they are going to punch you in the face. You tell them don’t and they respond “Ok”.
The “punch in the face” is not really valid analogue either, because its ALL negative with no positive effects at all. I think you’d have a hard time justifying that Microsoft’s policies were all negative. There were some pretty damn cool benefits in there.
If anything, Microsoft is the doctor with the bad bedside manner trying to give us a vaccine that they say will help us, but we’re too focused on the side-effects to accept it.”
Additionally…. Hitler…. Really?? But that was some might fine hyperbole.
If Microsoft want their gamers back, getting rid of their mistake is a start to the process, not the end of it.
The DRM was a disincentive, i.e. it gave you a reason to not buy an Xbox One, so more-or-less definite buyers became not-buyers. Removing the disincentive doesn’t reverse that effect. You’re example is a corollary – removing an incentive, i.e. taking away a reason to buy a PS2, turning a possible buyer into a possible not-buyer.
If someone made the objective decision to not buy one solely on the basis of the DRM, then you would expect them to switch back. But, many appear to have made the decision based on the DRM and the apparent intent Microsoft displayed regarding gamers and gaming. With the DRM gone, the intent is still there. So many of those angry about the DRM haven’t gotten what they wanted: trust. Microsoft has to earn that back.
The title is misleading.
The crowd is booing the exclusive nature of the KI title to Xbox, not MS or Xbox itself.
The gist is correct. A lot of people would like to play Killer Instinct, but a lot of people also do not want to buy/support an XBone. This then means that they have to either not play KI or go against their dislike of Xbone because they want to play KI more and probably buy new arcade sticks for the Xbone(and probably PS4 too since that’s what most gamers seem to be getting) and basically spending a crapload of money.
I’m not really interested in KI, but this is how I feel about Dead Rising 3. I am quite opposed to “aggressive” DRM and this is why I never bought Sim City although I was keen to when I first heard about it(dodged that bullet). If M$ didn’t pull the DRM thing to begin with, I would have been interested and the issue then would have been price(I had bought an Xbox360 first and only bought a PS3 much later). The fact that the PS4 seems like such a clear console choice means that the decision is easy for most gamers… but whether you’re in the position where you either can’t afford 2 systems or you choose to boycott the Xbone because of the DRM slight, it sucks to lose out. It’s like having to make a choice between saving one of two boats… and all of your friends and family are on the seaworthy boat, but you have one good friend on the sinking one that you can’t save and just have to watch drown. Boo!
I personally am quite the Halo fanboi (even worse, it’s for the lore and single-player, not the multi – I know, right?), and missing out on all that Master Chief goodness is really going to suck. Not looking forward to that, but y’know. The curse of voting with your wallet, right?
Ahh kids these days. No respect. Even if you don’t like something, it is better to show your disappointment with silence rather than immature booing.
Comment of the year 🙂
PS> I award this title out frequently so don’t expect a trophy any time soon… but for this very moment, you are the funniest person on the internet 😉
“Were you people saying ‘boooo’ or ‘x-booooox’?”
“BOOOOOOOO!” *things thrown*
Moleman: “I was saying x-boooox…”
Hahaha. I just forgot the second part of that gag. Thanks for reminding me =D such a classic Moleman moment.
Yeah, they were boo-ing the fact that Killer Instinct is exclusive rather than just the fact that Xbox One was mentioned. But I guess that’s a lot less dramatic.
I hate anyone who doesn’t have the same opinions as me and I will make it my life’s mission to bore that person (and anyone reading) to death with my repeating stance on something I desperately care about. Thank you.
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