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So does that permanent height thing work or nah
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Is that the virgin side of the chad meme
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Aug 4, 2020 13:00
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Fly Ricky posted:That’s a real Tweet from their actual account. I didn’t believe it at first. I guess someone there has a sense of humor. Some of the Xbox brand accounts seem to have people managing them who can get a little out there, which at the very least is a refreshing change from boring serious tweeting. Xbox France can also get a bit oddball. It seems less frequent now than in the past, but here's one where they consider what the French conjugation for "to loot" would be. https://twitter.com/XboxFR/status/1280819857962020865?s=20
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Aug 4, 2020 13:11
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Fly Ricky posted:That’s a real Tweet from their actual account. I didn’t believe it at first. I guess someone there has a sense of humor. Looking at that Tweet gets me to the opposite conclusion; this is some real forced marketing humor.
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Aug 4, 2020 13:33
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Aug 4, 2020 13:46
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Aug 4, 2020 14:03
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Real hurthling! posted:Is that the virgin side of the chad meme 
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Aug 4, 2020 14:37
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I just thought of this yesterday, but does anyone remember the Xbox 360 design first being leaked in full, on this very forum? https://web.archive.org/web/20050424034548/http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000293041091 (archive.org link as the story on Engadget itself doesn't seem to include images anymore). The first version of that image came from here. You can scroll down in the comments and see a couple of references. Now there was something a bit different about the first image posted here, and from what I remember was in the image first posted by Engadget before they quickly were able to source an unchanged version of the image. Anyone else remember what that was?
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Aug 4, 2020 14:41
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Aug 4, 2020 15:15
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lol in no universe would I ever consider PS Now the chad version of anything
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Aug 4, 2020 16:22
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PS Now, the exclusive streaming home of Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard, Dark Sector, Champion Jockey and Quantum Theory.
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Aug 4, 2020 16:57
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Red Warrior posted:I just thought of this yesterday, but does anyone remember the Xbox 360 design first being leaked in full, on this very forum? I can't believe I remember this, but I'm 99% sure that the image from here had a massive watermark across the entire thing that said "MY GIRLFRIEND". It was a games meme at the time iirc.
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Aug 4, 2020 17:07
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Red Warrior posted:I just thought of this yesterday, but does anyone remember the Xbox 360 design first being leaked in full, on this very forum?
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acksplode posted:I can't believe I remember this, but I'm 99% sure that the image from here had a massive watermark across the entire thing that said "MY GIRLFRIEND". It was a games meme at the time iirc. Yep, you got it, glad someone else remembered. What a time.
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Aug 4, 2020 17:13
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Pretty sure it was qirex himself who leaked it.
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Aug 4, 2020 17:15
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Fame Douglas posted:Looking at that Tweet gets me to the opposite conclusion; this is some real forced marketing humor. Well I didn’t say they had a “good” sense of humor... Even forced wackiness is a step away from the typical lack of self awareness most major gaming brands exhibit (Nintendo being the obvious outlier).
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Aug 4, 2020 17:52
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I missed something, what happened that had people ripping on Xbox over this logo?
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Aug 4, 2020 17:58
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It used to be Xlogo XBOX GAMEPASS and now its Xlogo GAMEPASS But still called "xbox gamepass"
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Aug 4, 2020 18:00
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More evidence that something is happening in the near future to Xbox Live. https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1290726377570803712 Fun Mixer cameo in that paragraph, too.
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Aug 4, 2020 20:13
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i have to wonder if they shut down xbox live for the 360 when they make whatever changes they are planning to make
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Aug 4, 2020 23:51
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DEEP STATE PLOT posted:i have to wonder if they shut down xbox live for the 360 when they make whatever changes they are planning to make Given that they just redid the 360 BC store backend stuff, that would be a very strange move.
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Aug 4, 2020 23:55
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i guess so, and the last few times i played 360 games online there still seemed to be a fair amount of activity so maybe they're still making enough money to make it worth keeping up, or alternatively maybe when they redid the xbox live infrastructure after the original xbox live got taken down they did so in a way to make it completely trivial to keep the 360 servers up. it's just that it's been 15 years so i'm always a bit afraid that it'll be taken down. hopefully it stays running for another 15 years or whatever.
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Aug 4, 2020 23:59
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https://twitter.com/RIPyourfav/status/1288446509567168512?s=20
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Aug 5, 2020 00:39
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The "Xbox Live" branding is way outdated, of course they're changing it. Free multiplayer on consoles should be the expected baseline, but I'm skeptical MS is willing to give up all that revenue.
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Aug 5, 2020 00:41
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univbee posted:
yeah that's them memeing.
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Aug 5, 2020 00:44
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Them outright killing online play on 360 would be a strange move for them. They made a big deal about BC XB1 users playing on the same servers as 360 users with the same experience, I think at least some of their titles still have a decent population playing online (who are still willing to pay $60 a year to do so). Sony would probably have an easier time justifying killing PS3 servers universally because users aren't paying to use those and off the top of my head I don't think any of the PS3 titles on PS Now are doing much for online, they're mostly single player experiences. And all the Naughty Dog PS3 servers are already shut down so there's that too. If Microsoft was going to shut down the 360 servers I think they'd have to give a far more generous lead time than the 3-4 months OG Xbox users got.
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Aug 5, 2020 02:33
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univbee posted:If Microsoft was going to shut down the 360 servers I think they'd have to give a far more generous lead time than the 3-4 months OG Xbox users got. I can't imagine a company running their own serious AWS competitor fretting over the cost of a relatively small population of legacy console servers, but what do I know.
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Aug 5, 2020 03:36
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Smugworth posted:I can't imagine a company running their own serious AWS competitor fretting over the cost of a relatively small population of legacy console servers, but what do I know. I think it’s not so much the server costs as it is the cost of the support personnel. Running a game server means needing to do tech support and all sorts of other things (e.g. managing an official forum) that start to get impractical when your active population is a double-digit number of broke-brains who never got a new console or even a different game. univbee fucked around with this message at 03:42 on Aug 5, 2020 |
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Aug 5, 2020 03:39
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Since my PS3 was ready to go I fired up Black Ops 3 on it and got into a full match right away. Only 4 playlists had anyone in them, mind you. There are 2701 people playing PS3 Black Ops2 right now too. Almost all playing Team Deathmatch, though. EDIT there are nearly 200K people playing MW3 PS3, whoa. If the XB360 numbers are similar that’s 12 million US dollars annually for XBLG for those players. I guess the neat thing is that MS likely has loads of historical activity data and could get an exact number of how many people are exclusively playing that and nothing else, that could be enough money that they don’t want to kill those servers anytime soon. I guess there’s also the 360 Halo games. Even though MCC exists I think they’d have a hard time killing the 360 Halo 3 servers, that game alone caused so many XBLG sign-ups by itself that they can probably keep those servers going forever. univbee fucked around with this message at 04:02 on Aug 5, 2020 |
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Aug 5, 2020 03:53
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360 Live will never die because 360 is still the high water mark for Xbox and Microsoft will never let that happen. PS3 online will probably get axed in 2021.
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Aug 5, 2020 04:15
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Aug 5, 2020 18:06
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Zerot posted:More evidence that something is happening in the near future to Xbox Live. Won't this essentially bump the price of multiplayer on Xbox from $60 a year to as much as $120 a year for the default pricing of Gamepass?
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Aug 5, 2020 18:12
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TheScott2K posted:360 Live will never die because 360 is still the high water mark for Xbox and Microsoft will never let that happen. My understanding is that PS3/Vita/PS4 are all the same online service, so this might not happen.
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Aug 5, 2020 18:14
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That's assuming that Live is being rolled into Game Pass and not being made free.
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Aug 5, 2020 18:15
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My guess is that they're going to go the PS4 route and allow some things to be free, namely F2P games and demo/beta access of stuff. Given there are a number of people who probably are subbed to Gold exclusively to play Fortnite they are probably trying to avoid scenarios where someone tops up on a year of Gold and then almost immediately no longer needs it.
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Aug 5, 2020 18:18
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I said come in! posted:Won't this essentially bump the price of multiplayer on Xbox from $60 a year to as much as $120 a year for the default pricing of Gamepass? I think it's more likely that online play will be free in the future than online play being part of Game Pass. univbee posted:My guess is that they're going to go the PS4 route and allow some things to be free, namely F2P games and demo/beta access of stuff. Given there are a number of people who probably are subbed to Gold exclusively to play Fortnite they are probably trying to avoid scenarios where someone tops up on a year of Gold and then almost immediately no longer needs it. There have been enough insiders say that this isn't likely to happen that I doubt that this is the case. But who knows? We might find out this month!
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Aug 5, 2020 18:19
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Zerot posted:I think it's more likely that online play will be free in the future than online play being part of Game Pass. I would like that more, push Game Pass really hard instead as the best way to play Microsofts AAA games.
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Aug 5, 2020 18:21
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Zerot posted:There have been enough insiders say that this isn't likely to happen that I doubt that this is the case. But who knows? We might find out this month! I mean Xbox Insiders said the same thing about Kinect, always-online DRM, and Gold being required for Netflix and Internet Explorer, which was the case until it very suddenly wasn't.
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Aug 5, 2020 18:21
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univbee posted:I mean Xbox Insiders said the same thing about Kinect, always-online DRM, and Gold being required for Netflix and Internet Explorer, which was the case until it very suddenly wasn't. At least the first two things were reported in the press before Microsoft announced it. Insiders can be wrong, they can have faulty sources, or can have incomplete or out of date information. It does seem like Xbox Live Gold is going to go through a shake-up of some kind, and free online play makes a lot of sense with Play Anywhere being a major initiative.
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Maybe they just dont want to sell gold at that long term 12 month rate anymore.
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