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[viveks86]

Huh? I'm confused! Didn't the issue CBOAT was talking about have to do with ESRAM and not xbox live issues? Here's the post:

IMsory ndont banplees ;but tha whoel post was nfpixeldust

Iwil PM datils on esram to u or evil or bish nf need be,

The details PMed to Bish was about the ESRAM, right? What Morty is talking about looks like a different problem altogether. What am I missing?

 

[la flama blanca]

You do realize that's all game side code, right?

Damn man, you still trying, that's admirable.

 

[Brain of J]

If I can add this little tidbit-

Smartglass is broken beyond belief.

Thank god! Now I won't feel bad for ignoring it... lol.

 

[freenudemacusers]

Yes, please. Dude hasn't done anything worthwhile in this industry and acts like a complete sociopath.

what's this all about? gimme the juicy deetz

 

[Dibbz]

At least they were honest

 

[Domino792]

This thread sure is hilarious today. http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=550584

"Sounds fishy!"

Well then Kotaku had it right all along. Who would have thought lol.

 

[IAmRandom31]

That may be the most mesmerizing thing I've ever seen ....

It really does sound like Sony at E3 completely destroyed the Xbox One. Forcing Microsoft to change integral pieces of the hardware and the OS so late in the game sounds like it has thrown the entire thing off kilter and it is going to take some time to get everything righted again.

Didn't Microsoft peeps before E3 say all the DRM and stuff like that was " built into the hardware ? " Sounds like they basically had to do the equivalent of attempting to erase Internet Explorer from the OS. And we all know what that does.

 

[Neuromancer]

Microsoft will clearly blame any OS issues at launch on complications with reversing their DRM policy, even though that's obviously BS.

Yep

"It's all of your fault you ungrateful little shits"

 

[Derrick01]

Probably not your intent to sound so condescending about it, but the dude DID just go through an incredibly traumatic experience :/

I did too for what it's worth. My mom died and that's why I was absent from Gaf for most of the last 4 days. But I didn't know something happened to him.

All I was referring to was the posts I saw in the recent past from him complaining that people were praising Cboat so much and not him. I wasn't taking some random cheap shot at him, the kind of stuff I was seeing from him genuinely made me think he may be desperate for something massive and to be fair this source seems a bit shaky. He may be right, I'm not even saying he's not, I'm just saying that I personally am not buying it until either someone else can back it up or we see it actually unfold.

 

[JP]

Is it true that Microsoft is renaming Xbox LIVE as Xbox DEAD?

Wasn't there a quote from Microsoft before saying that if people wanted an offline console they should buy a 360? I wonder if they'll change that?

 

[Mikey Jr.]

Kinda worrying how in the dark we are for a lot of this stuff. Both for the xbone and ps4.

 

[Bodom78]

So the XBone OS is scratching discs now, damn MS better fix this.

 

[TheSpoiler]

Here you go.

I can't run the apps too?

C'mon!

 

[Dragon]

Who is jschrier? Seems to be respected in here.

Writer for kotaku.

 

[JetBlackPanda]

I find this really hard to believe. Not because I don't trust Mortimer but because I just can't see how MS could fuck up something so badly that they had right before. What the hell is going on over there?!

Have you been asleep since May?

 

[stktt]

This really doesn't seem like the catastrophic disaster it was being portrayed as. Debilitating if it's pervasive at launch, but I was expecting some sort of massive hardware failure, not something that can be fixed in an update at or shortly after launch and doesn't even affect all aspects of the multiplayer.

Still, it's unfortunate these issues are manifesting at all. Hopefully everything gets sorted out or at the very least severely mitigated in a timely manner.

Can we please stop giving Kevin Dent the attention?

Yes, please. He's insufferable.

 

[bob page]

what's this all about? gimme the juicy deetz

Not to derail, but this, as well as many other instances:

http://tumblinfeminist.tumblr.com/post/10970050703/elizabethdeloria-for-those-of-you-not-in-the

 

[ypo]

Ouch, sounds like it's not even in the beta stage. $500 bucks for the privilege of alpha testing.

 

[SlowRevolution]

Who is jschrier? Seems to be respected in here.

writes for Kotaku.

 

[HariKari]

Man. I hate threads like this. Just rumors and whispers and rumors that build into a frenzy of nonsense.

Why do you think there's a blanket embargo on XB1? Is there any reasonable reason why they'd willingly miss the holygrail hype period besides major technical issues? I don't see it. Plenty of people have intimated that what Mort is saying is correct. He just put it out in the open for all to see.

 

[MThanded]

damn

 

[Wurdfurd]

Fuck, I have to go to bed. FUCKKK

You convey my feelings perfectly!

 

[toddhunter]

Who is jschrier? Seems to be respected in here.

Kotaku writer and all around nice guy.

 

[Fornaximus]

Dent's just bitter about cboat and mort shutting him down last night. That dude's head is way too deep inside the Microhole.

 

[eznark]

If you are downplaying this you need to reevaluate things. This is a huge issue.

 

[Syphon Filter]

Definitely sucks but not a deal breaker. Hopefully they get it worked out before the end of the year.

It seems possible that they may fix it by launch from what i read in there.

 

[UNCMark]

Yesterday was the first I heard of that Kevin Dent guy, but is he a straight up misogynist? Wow his tweets and the linked comments he's made in the past are just awful.

 

[Stoffinator]

If this is true about the online not working. How is Microsoft going to do that Battlefield 4 tournament on November 1? Isn't that suppose to be with Xbox Ones?

 

[DopeyFish]

Damn man, you still trying, that's admirable.

Except I'm not even trying. This is barely worthy of my time.

 

[MormaPope]

Here is something a ton of you are glossing over.

For someone to use these features they probably have to be a Gold member, you will be paying for something that is broken and won't be fixed immediately. You are paying $55/$60 dollars a year for a service that shouldn't cost that much, and yet it is broken.

Fuck that noise, pay walls are bad enough, engaging in the pay wall and shit doesn't even work? That's abysmal.

 

[Disco Batman]

Considering how much they are trying to do with the OS I expected plenty of features wouldn't make it at launch.

But I wouldn't have expected these sorts of issues.

 

[Boke1879]

This thread is the tip of the iceberg. I can see all sorts of things being revealed now.

 

[PBY]

Why do you think there's a blanket embargo on XB1? Is there any reasonable reason why they'd willingly miss the holygrail hype period besides major technical issues? I don't see it. Plenty of people have intimated that what Mort is saying is correct. He just put it out in the open for all to see.

And its just rumors. Who knows what he or anyone else knows. We're gonna get impressions from outlets soon enough.

 

[CLEEK]

Couldn't those ms employees just CTRL + C then CTRL + V everything in 360 to one?

You obviously have never worked with developers. I used to manage a team of them in a previous job. What I found was that unless they were kept under a tight reign, they all loved nothing more than reinventing the wheel every time. If you have stable code that's been used in production for years, fucking well use it.

 

[JaggedSac]

Is it true that Microsoft is renaming Xbox LIVE as Xbox DEAD?

I chuckled at this.

 

[SirMossyBloke]

Writer for kotaku.

Thanks.

 

[IN&OUT]

That's what happen MS when you try to make many things at once, you make nothing in the end.

 

[LiquidMetal14]

Does anyone actually care? This second screen nonsense is worse than 3d.

For MSFT? I agree. PS4 remote play and second screen companionship is legit. If PS3 cross play function is anything to by then it will be amazing on PS4 as it's already been demoed.

 

[coldone]

how the heck do they screw this up of all things?

All the console, MMO, hardware launches were buggy. If it was Nintendo, Iwata would have apologized on a video and GAF wouldn't have complained. WiiU still doesnt have the summer firmware upgrade, it was promised 9 months before.

First year is going to be rocky. Things are going to crash.

 

[freenudemacusers]

Not to derail, but this, as well as many other instances:

http://tumblinfeminist.tumblr.com/post/10970050703/elizabethdeloria-for-those-of-you-not-in-the

oh. can safely ignore his contributions from this point on. thanks.

 

[Respawn]

Not that much of a deal imo. Will be fixed in future patches. PS4 starts without all stuff working as well. As long as basic functionality runs fine (e.g. playing games) it could pass without much trouble for MS.

/S or

 

[Ninja Scooter]

I find this really hard to believe. Not because I don't trust Mortimer but because I just can't see how MS could fuck up something so badly that they had right before. What the hell is going on over there?!

They thought DRM/no used games was a good idea. That's where they are operating from.

 

[BlackGhost]

Who is this Kevin Dent Fella? And whys he so salty

 

[Surface of Me]

well considering people pay $60 a year for party chat and the privilege to play a game they already bought, I'd say it's still a big deal.

They want to charge people for something, they had eight years since the 360 launched and their online infrastructure doesn't even work. I don't see how this is something you can just shrug off. It's kind of embarrassing and I'm kind of glad I decided to wait a year on the Xbone.

I can deal with 720p. Paying for shit that doesn't even work? That's a different story

I understand that, some posters are just spreading misinformation either due to ignorance to the entire blog post, or other reasons.

 

[Venturer]

Cboat you can let it all out, its not good to bottle things up like this.

 

[Riki]

I don't get why people are questioning this or thinking this couldn't be true.

Microsoft has been behind on the XBox One since before it was even announced.
They're months behind on the hardware. The software. The OS.
Everything is a complete mess. They don't have the teams they use to with the Xbox and 360.
They are trying to do too many things at once, and none of them are good for gamers. The system is a mess. Simple as that.

 

[Squire]

if online play is fucked and buggy for weeks after launch, that's a pretty big deal. I wouldn't' write it off so quickly as something that can be easily fixed when Mort's own sources think it could take weeks/months. Think about the number it did on PS3's image when PSN was compromised and down for a month. Imagine that happening on a system where online play is so vital like XBL.

It really is like Sony and MS traded places.

Buying an XB1 on day one with CoD and/or BF4 and not being able to play MP.

Can you imagine?

 

[TheRealTalker]

At least they were honest

It was CBOAT who made that ad dropping them Truthfacts ;P

 

[CambriaRising]

Won't effect me because I am not getting one anywhere near launch, but I hope those of you who do buy this thing know absolutely what you are getting yourselves into.

 

[Spongebob]

I did too for what it's worth. My mom died and that's why I was absent from Gaf for most of the last 4 days. But I didn't know something happened to him.

All I was referring to was the posts I saw in the recent past from him complaining that people were praising Cboat so much and not him. I wasn't taking some random cheap shot at him, the kind of stuff I was seeing from him genuinely made me think he may be desperate for something massive and to be fair this source seems a bit shaky. He may be right, I'm not even saying he's not, I'm just saying that I personally am not buying it until either someone else can back it up or we see it actually unfold.

Damn, sorry to hear that.