Roland1979
Junior Member
... Mother of all campaigning ideas...
Also, sure I can spare a little little.
I just hope a similar initial will start with European forces as well, or better a discount on PS4 provided by the governments?
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Military personnel on Xbox One; Microsoft responds
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... Mother of all campaigning ideas...
Also, sure I can spare a little little.
I just hope a similar initial will start with European forces as well, or better a discount on PS4 provided by the governments?
Yeah, I don't think this is needed to be honest. Single guys don't get to spend their money because they're deployed so they have plenty of money for their own console and games. Morale, Welfare, and Recreation departments will end up buying less XBO's and will switch to PS4 due to Internet requirements on their own.
mattiewheels
And then the LORD David Bowie saith to his Son, Jonny Depp: 'Go, and spread my image amongst the cosmos. For every living thing is in anguish and only the LIGHT shall give them reprieve.'
Tweet this to Adam Boyes and yosp (if they haven't been already). This sounds like a perfect way to put a cherry on this problem.
Offline, small, lightweight, no large required accessories, no powerbrick.
Sony should just donate a ton to the military.
weekend_warrior
Banned
Holy crap man...I don't even know what to say at this point.
Carolina-blue
Member
This seriously is a great idea & I would be willing to donate to as well. If you could get the right exposure for this I could see it being HUGELY successful! Keep us posted on this as it develops.
Not to mention if someone has a US Live account, but is still stationed overseas in a supported country they still wouldn't be able to activate a newly purchased game if I'm reading this correctly. Also, does the disc indicate what region it's from? Meaning, you couldn't activate a copy of a game bought in a supported European country on a US Live account?
I also doubt military bases will let you be connecting to VPNs for the purpose of faking your country IP to MS's Live servers.
I was just going to say this, it is a nice gesture but when Soldiers are deployed, we get BAH, Overseas pay, Hazardous Duty pay, and pay no taxes for the year. Pay is structured by rank so if you are an E5 with 1 year as an E5 you can make anywhere close to 5000 a month or more. Its a bad ass gesture but coming from someone who has served, you may need your money more than they do trust me. Just being real bro.
Sephiroth_VII
Member
I will gladly take you up on that bet as well, if you're game for one more. With MS apparently having big issues with yields, as well as the way Amazon's pre-order charts are looking, this should be an easy win for Sony.
I used to get gamefly discs delivered to the ship while deployed as well as buying new releases via Amazon. Can't do any of that with Microsoft's console.
Fantastic. Hope we can get this thing going and really show solidarity with a group of people who more than anyone else I can think of, really just sometimes need that time to unwind and relax when they're dealing with so much tragic and difficult shit.
Seriously wonderful idea, m0dus. You're cool peoples.
Karsticles
Member
Sounds like a great Sony campaign. They should start it up.
Indeed. Knowing a lot of people in the military, it's like they can light money on fire and not even care. Not that they haven't earned it, of course.
People send soldiers things all the time; almost all of them are endlessly thankful to be in people's thoughts. It's not just about meeting some financial need or that they don't require it in technical terms... it's about saying "here's a company that DOES care about you, and here are legions of gamers who have you in our thoughts."
Trust me when I say this is no small gesture to these individuals
GO FOR IT. try to contact someone in the USO and see if they can help, most things get handled through Red Cross so maybe those two leads can help you.
True indeed Amirox.True. Great idea, but we get treated better (usually) deployed then while at home station.
SlipperyFishes
Banned
More like they pissed the shared bed and won't own up it was them.
Meanwhile at Microsoft:
This is too funny
The Cowboy
Member
Wouldn't you be able to use a kickstarter site to get it going? (one that allows charity causes), I'm pretty sure a lot of people would likely join in with a "for the troops" cause.
Once up and running I'd recon people like Jim Sterling on Destructiod (and other people/sites) would be more than happy to put an article about it (I would think considering how they feel about what MS is doing))
swordsman720
Banned
You f**cking block head MS, just pull your shit head out of the sand. As a big fan of Xbox and xbox360, I am so mad right now.
You have to drop the 24 DRM or else you will miss lots of supports. No one is asking for this shit policy, so it is still not too late to drop this. For now no day 1 for me MS. By the way the peoples want next gen and nobodies are waiting for new Xbox 360 games. So cut the crap about buy xbox360 instead.
Your slogan
Built by gamers for the gamers>>> Not!!!!
The right slogan for you
Built by the monkeys for the gamers.
You have to drop the 24 DRM or else you will miss lots of supports. No one is asking for this shit policy, so it is still not too late to drop this. For now no day 1 for me MS. By the way the peoples want next gen and nobodies are waiting for new Xbox 360 games. So cut the crap about buy xbox360 instead.
Your slogan
Built by gamers for the gamers>>> Not!!!!
The right slogan for you
Built by the monkeys for the gamers.
What? Wow, just wow!!
Nelson completely doesn't understand the issue here. So he assumes every member of the military will just stay on 360 for the entirety of the next generation?
Get OReilly to cover this - boom headshot...
ambientmystic
Member
Would've thought MS knew how to treat the US Military right, after how much support they got from them during the 360 generation.
Even a minor concession/gesture like a specially made Mil SKU with no 24 hour online checks, or mandatory online authentication/Kinect attached would be acceptable to stem this bad PR.
May not matter much in terms of total units sold, but the PR situation just got even worse lol.
Even a minor concession/gesture like a specially made Mil SKU with no 24 hour online checks, or mandatory online authentication/Kinect attached would be acceptable to stem this bad PR.
May not matter much in terms of total units sold, but the PR situation just got even worse lol.
Impeccable
Member
I can't even fathom how there is any support for the XbOne at this point.
But yet...
But yet...
The PS4 donation is still a good one. Most deployed locations have a CAC or an equivalent (activities center) where there are systems set up with a number of TVs for people to come in drink and hang out.
If the donation can go there, all the better.
Edit: I can probably assist with the distribution in some way.
If the donation can go there, all the better.
Edit: I can probably assist with the distribution in some way.
As someone in the military (also deployed) the simple fact is that One will just not be used, at all, in deployment scenarios. True, military is 99% Xbox but they will just go where the system that works goes. PSP, for example, is massively huge in the military on deployment because of CFW and folks trading files. They will just choose PS4 for deployments. One will be big for Garrison play, though.
Doctor_Thomas
Member
Then it would just beg the question, if they can make one type of XBone that doesn't require 24 hour online checks, why do any of them need it?
Kinect doesn't like it when you ask such questions.
Okay this needs to get cleared up because some of this is getting crazy. I am active duty Air Force and have been deployed 8 times.
I have been using StrongVPN.com on my deployments so I can make U.S. purchases on my console, watch HBO Go, Netflix and Hulu. Regardless what console you have you still need VPN because you can't make purchases or access any of those apps outside the U.S. for obvious reasons.
Even with the capability of VPN most of the time we work, go to the gym and take college or clep out of classes. The military at some of these bases have 360/PS3/Wii units set up and the number one activity most enjoy over everything else, is getting their 2 beers a night. Not everyone in the military plays videogames. These talks of 100,000 or 1.4 million military across bases and overseas is just grasping. People have internet at bases stationed all over the world. Some of this is just overblown.
Osiris
I permanently banned my 6 year old daughter from using the PS4 for mistakenly sending grief reports as it's too hard to watch or talk to her
Vet's hospital waiting rooms? (just an idea)
ThoughtsOfSpeaking
Banned
I dunno if that's something that will help the perception in the eyes of the industry....
Ollie Pooch
In a perfect world, we'd all be homersexual
Noble gesture but I wish people were as willing to donate to people who actually need it, not just leisure items for people who are probably earning more than you are. That said, anything to support the ps4 over this shitbox is fine by me .
You know it's a bad product when people are proposing a military SKU of a console just to get around the unbelievably draconian region locking, online checks, and DRM.
You know it's a bad product when people are proposing a military SKU of a console just to get around the unbelievably draconian region locking, online checks, and DRM.
Yeah, I noticed Yahoo! News had Microsoft's dick in their mouth with multiple articles today. Glad to see there's some journalistic integrity out there.
deejay8595
my posts are "MEH"
You've got to be kidding me! LOL. This guy missed the entire point!
I'd donate money to your cause.
What? Wow, just wow!!
Nelson completely doesn't understand the issue here. So he assumes every member of the military will just stay on 360 for the entirety of the next generation?
True, but what is this shit about PS3/4 not being allowed? Would not the same be true of 360 or any other online console?
Paper Sparrow
Member
Maybe you could use the same idea, but donate PS4s to veterans at home instead? It sends somewhat of a similar message, and I'm sure it would be appreciated.
fishfishmonkeyhat
Member
"Microsoft Finally Answers Our Service Men's Prays!"
"No."
"No."
semiconscious
Gold Member
oh, he fucking understands, alright
. what is he, or ms, to do at this point, about any of this 3-ring circus they find themselves trapped in, but obfuscate, obfuscate, obfuscate...not to mention: how has anyone over the age of 15 ever taken a guy with the handle 'major nelson' seriously? hopefully, thanks to this latest bit of deviousness, he's at least now officially been stripped of his rank
...Let's assume he's saying this is true for any console. The point is that it doesn't matter for PS3, PS4, or 360 because none of them require you to be online whereas Xbone does. So the only thing he can possibly be suggesting by saying no one will jump ship to Playstation by using that justification is that they'll keep playing 360s for the next 6+ years rather than get a PS4 that would work in that situation.
Sure, you can't connect to a DoD network, but military members overseas have access to personal internet.
Hell, I was in Afghanistan and had internet access in my dorm room. What about the people stationed in Japan, who have access to Japanese ISP's in their homes (I know, I was over there).
I honestly can't believe MS is being this dense about this.
ThisWreckage
Banned
Microsoft has surpassed 2006 Sony in my eyes. Bringing arrogance and delusion to new heights.