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Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn
I haven't heard if they changed their policy, but it also sounds like the issue isn't as prevalent this time around (except for the guy who got scammed). Based on Kingpin's post, it sounds like they have something in place.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kingpin32
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Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes
Motion is seconded.Quote:
Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes
Motion Denied.Quote:
Originally Posted by bdoughty
/s/ CLW
Resident Lawyer TGT
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Originally Posted by CLW
TGT needs to look for a new lawyer, one with a basic understanding of parliamentary procedure. You can't deny a motion that just went up for debate. In this case the debate being why your douchebaggery is allowed to run rampant in every thread dedicated to the Xbox One, without any recourse.
You've clearly never been in a Court room in real life. ALL motions have a predetermined outcome before the "real" argument even begins.Quote:
Originally Posted by bdoughty
Peggle 2 released today! Halo Spartan Assault comes to Xbox One on 12/24 for $14.99. It'll be $4.99 if you've bought the Windows Phone 8 or Windows 8 version before 12/15. It's currently $6.99 so you'd end up saving about $3.
Also, both Peggle 2 and Halo SA have full 1000 GS. Perhaps a new thing and all games get the full score?
Hope Peggle 2 comes to PS4 soon.Quote:
Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn
It will at some point.
So much for Xbox not selling (and consoles being doomed). That's what? 4.1 million confirmed consoles sold already between the two?
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Since its launch 18 days ago, Xbox One is proving to be the must-have gift this holiday season with more than 2 million consoles sold through to consumers worldwide, averaging over 111,111 units sold per day – a record-setting pace for Xbox. Millions of fans around the world who have purchased Xbox One have shown incredible engagement with the all-in-one games and entertainment system, spending over 83 million hours in games, TV, and apps on Xbox One since the system launched on Nov. 22.
“We continue to be humbled and overwhelmed by the positive response from our fans. We are thrilled to see sales of Xbox One on a record-setting pace, with over 2 million Xbox One consoles in homes around the world. Demand is exceeding supply in our 13 launch markets and Xbox One is sold out at most retailers. We’re also particularly excited to see consumers engaging in a wide range of games and entertainment experiences on the platform, with more than 1 million paid transactions* on Xbox Live to date,” said Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice president of strategy and marketing, Xbox.
Xbox One is also proving to be the most popular online multiplayer community for gamers with over 39 million Xbox One achievements unlocked and 595 million total Gamerscore achieved.
“Demand for next generation gaming continues to be very strong,” said John Love, director of video games at Amazon. “At peak demand, customers were ordering the Xbox One console at over 1000 units per minute on Amazon.com.”
“The Xbox One entertainment system is one of our hottest selling products this holiday season,” said Bob Puzon, senior vice president of Merchandising at GameStop. “GameStop is experiencing high demand from our customers for this innovative console and we are working closely with Microsoft to receive more units to fulfill our customers’ holiday shopping lists.”
“Xbox One is one of the hottest Christmas gifts this holiday season and was a top seller this Black Friday,” said Chris Nagelson, vice president of entertainment for Walmart U.S. “We are refreshing our inventory as fast as we can to ensure customers can give and receive the new console for Christmas.”
The Xbox team is continuing to work hard to meet consumer demand, delivering consoles to retailers as fast as possible this holiday season. To help people find Xbox One, Major Nelson recently shared some tips for consumers this holiday season.
Xbox One brings the best games, live TV, Skype, sports, fitness, music and more to one system at the center of the living room, all available at the command of your voice. With 22 hotly anticipated games, including 10 exclusive titles, and entertainment apps, YouTube, Netflix, Hulu Plus, and many more – Xbox One fans have the best entertainment and games available on one console this holiday season.
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Love it.
LONG LIVE THE CONSOLE!
I like it. :up:
Holding out slim hope there is XB1 under my tree.
I want an x1 too but darn x mas an bills.
Hey Smooth, you get my friend request on One? I'm beginning to think I'm doing something wrong here. I sent out friend requests to a bunch of people, but to my knowledge, none have accepted it. It's the same name as it was before, but my account was accessed by someone else, so I had to change emails and reset everything. Let me know if you got it.
I'll jump on tonight when I get home from work and check. I actually haven't been on my One since sometime last week. It's been a busy as hell week at work this week, and what little time I've had to game, I've been spending on advancing the current season in my NCAA '14 dynasty. So I'll check when I get home, probably in an hour and a half or two hours from now and let you know.Quote:
Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn
Unfortunately, I figured it out.
When you send a friend request, you simply follow that person. If that person decides to follow you back, then you become mutual followers. Basically, it's exactly like Twitter.
Dumb as hell.
Yeah, that is dumb. But at least now we know what's up. Next time I get on, be it tonight when I get home from work or sometime this weekend, I'll follow you back so we'll be good to go.Quote:
Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn
In a way it's kind of neat because you can follow whoever the hell you want without them needing to accept a friend request. However, on the flip side, I still like that mutual confirmation that if I want to go and send out invites, I know those people have me added.
There's a bunch of really weird design decisions on the Xbox One standpoint. The friend's thing, the elimination of custom music, no battery indicator, complete overhaul of the party system(and not for the better), and how EVERYTHING is an app. The interface looks good, but when I have to open an app to check my friend's list and then another app to manage my party, there's something wrong.
I also don't get the achievement thing. The design is okay, I guess, but I'm baffled that the achievements you have earned don't give a description until you select them, but the achievements you have not yet earned have the description right there for you to see. Uh? :D
Got the Xbox One, loving it so far. Some of the interface is kind of weird though, game invites can be a bit confusing too. Wish we had custom music again, and honestly I hope the guide comes back in some form of capacity too. Being able to snap to the guide could be pretty awesome, that way it streamlines a few things. Using the kinect to move through menus is so effortless, I almost wish Microsoft kept DRM.
Xbox One would be a lot better with their initial vision - every disc installs to the hard drive and you no longer need the disc + family sharing plan.
Yeah until your HDD fills up and they still don't have external drives working yet so until they get that setup the everything digital just doesn't make any sense.Quote:
Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn
Huh? That's how it already is. Games on both Xbox One and PS4 have to be completely installed to the hard drive whether they're digital or physical retail copies. The only difference is that before everyone bitched and complained and Microsoft changed it, the old system would've meant that once you installed it, you didn't need to keep the physical copy in the drive.
Which would have been greatly preferred now, at least by me and many of us in this thread. But the idiots had to go and bitch about each and every little thing Microsoft was trying to do, which turned what actually would have been a solid console and an actual damn good set up into just a continuation of last-gen processes. It's pretty much the reason why I'm planning on buying most, if not all of my future Xbox One games digitally through the console store. About the only things I'll buy through Amazon, Gamestop or wherever anymore will be games that actually have really damn good pre-order bonuses. Otherwise, I'll just wait until day one to get them through the store.Quote:
Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn
I'm thinking of doing the same; I'm just waiting to see just how much storage you can use when they implement external drive storage. It was limited on 360 and was pretty useless. If they allow 500GB+ external drives to be used, I'll definitely go digital to get the benefits of switching/snapping.
Max: The Curse of Brotherhood is out tomorrow on Xbox One for $14.99.
Alright, looking to buy a new game. So far I've had just Dead Rising 3, Ryse: Son of Rome and Forza Motorsport 5, which I all got on release day. I'm trying to decide between FIFA 14, NBA 2K14 or Assassin's Creed IV. This is probably going to be the only game I'll buy for another month or so, money is still gonna be tight for a little bit, so I want to make sure it's gonna be a damn good one.
Cost or deals isn't really going to matter because I'm planning on buying it (and most all future games) digitally through the Xbox Store on the console. Since everything has to be installed anyways, discs are pretty much nothing but an annoyance and extra step anymore.
2K or FIFA shoulds take up a good amount of your time with career mode or My Player.Quote:
Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes
Yeah, I'm definitely leaning more towars 2K or FIFA. While I plan to get Assassin's Creed IV at some point, Dead Rising 3 and Ryse: Son of Rome keep me busy for now with free roam and campaign games. Definitely looking more towards sports if I can.Quote:
Originally Posted by JBHuskers
I played the demo for FIFA, had a lot of fun with it (which I knew I would haven't played FIFA the last couple years). Only thing holding me back from it is 2K. I haven't seen a demo for 2K, and while I know I would love MyPlayer and MyGM, the whole VC debacle with NBA 2K is really making me hesitant to pull the trigger on it. I'm looking to have fun and enjoy the MyPlayer and MyGM modes, not have to deal with locked down modes and options that you have to unlock first via VC.
The game play really isn't all that good in NBA. It looks beautiful but it's the same old, annoying, half broken game play. Assassin's Creed is getting raved about as being the best game in the series by a lot of comments I've read from various people. I have it, just haven't played it yet. I know you like those games, so that might be your best bet. On the flip side, Assassin's Creed will drop in price a lot quicker than the other 2 you're thinking about.
Alright, I think I'll roll with FIFA for now then. I've heard so much good AND bad about NBA 2K14, I almost need to play it myself to decide for sure. Maybe I'll hit up Redbox tomorrow after work if they have it in stock, get a hands on feel for it and see if I'll enjoy it, between the typical half broken game play and the VC crap.
Assassin's Creed, you're right, that will definitely drop in price much quicker than NBA 2K or FIFA. Plus I've been feeling in a sports kind of mood when it comes to Xbox One gaming, I'm just not sure how much I'd fire up Assassin's Creed once I complete the story and other stuff.
So I think I'll buy and starting downloading FIFA from the XBox Store right now, look at renting NBA 2K from Redbox tomorrow, and look for, maybe, a AC IV price drop by the spring or early summer and pick it up then.
Well, I didn't know that, but apparently Redbox doesn't stock Xbox One and PS4 games yet, at least not in NW Ohio. Not sure about NBA 2K then. I don't know just how different or similar the next-gen version is to the 360/PS4 version, plus this VC crap that they added.
I wonder if the local video rental store has one. They're more expensive, and it's been probably a decade since I was there, but that might be an option to check out. Either that, or try a free trial of Gamefly and get it that way.
I don't think any do. The website doesn't even have options to choose XB1 or PS4.Quote:
Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes
Way better looking, plays exactly the same.Quote:
Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes
Yeah, I did some searching, they list Xbox One games if you search on Google for Redbox and Xbox One games, but that's about it. Apparently they were going to start offering Xbox One and PS4 games either last month or this month, but only in "select markets" initially. This was a response to a comment left by someone on their Facebook page in early October:Quote:
Originally Posted by JBHuskers
"to see how customers like them and decide if we should carry the games"... Yeah, you already offer Xbox 360 and PS3 games, of course your customers wouldn't give a damn about Xbox One and PS4 games, great logic there. :fp:Quote:
Hey Christopher, thanks for your question, and thanks for your interest in next-gen games! We’re already carrying Wii U games in select cities, and starting sometime in November or December, we’ll also start carrying PlayStation 4 and Xbox One games in a handful of cities to see how customers like them and decide if we should carry the games in other towns. The final dates haven’t been decided yet. We’re glad you’re interested, and we’ll continue to strive to make more customers happy!
So maybe I'll check out Gamefly. I've bought a couple games from them, but I've never actually used the rental service, so I can still get a free one month trial of it. And with work slowing down now that our winter campaigns are over for another year, with primarily weekend programming, Saturday morning show and HS basketball being the biggest portion of my hours, I have some more free time that I would actually be able to give the Gamefly trial proper use and not just have it sitting there ticking away. Get NBA 2K, spend a week or so on it getting a feel for it all, also try out NBA Live firsthand, and check out COD Ghosts and Battlefield 4.
After that, I'll probably cancel before the trial ends, there's just not enough games out, nor coming out in January or February to really make Gamefly worth it at the moment. And I'm pretty much done buying 360 games now that I've have the One. About the only games coming out in the next couple months that interest me are Titanfall (which I'm getting regardless), Watch Dogs (getting regardless), The Crew (April-June release) and Thief (February 25 release). So Thief is really the only game that I'd be using Gamefly for, and that would be a full month after the trial ended. So I'll go with the trial, check out all of the release day next-gen games that I don't already own so I can get a firsthand feel for them and decide if I'll buy them at some point later, and then cancel before the end of the trial period.
FIFA it is then. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn
I played FIFA 13 year-round on the 360, so I know for a fact that I will have plenty of fun with FIFA 14. NBA 2K's gonna get relegated to Gamefly trial period testing to see if it's personally tolerable or if I skip it until next fall.
Alright, FIFA 14 is downloading from the Xbox Store while I sit back for some Little Caesars Pizza Bowl action between Bowling Green and Pittsburgh.
Thanks for the help gentlemen! :up:
It probably would have been easier earlier to just grab FIFA 14, but whoever it was earlier who made a post, wherever it was that I saw it posted on here, about there being a NBA 2K14 Locker code posted on OS for 10,000 free VC in the game, it got me considering buying 2K14 (which I've been wanting to do since before the Xbox One came out) and taking advantage of the code while it still worked, especially with all the horror stories of everything in the game essentially being tied to VC, or so the reports have said. Then I figured I'd check here for some feedback, see what the consensus of opinion was between those three games as to which I should go ahead and grab right now. So while I'll be letting the 10,000 free VC code go by the wayside, eh, oh well, instead of taking a blind leap of faith with NBA 2K, I know for a fact that I'll enjoy every moment of FIFA 14, so it's a win-win for me.
Someone on Facebook posted this photo of a Tampa Gamestop very desperate to sell their XB1's :D
http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s...ps5720f025.jpg
Must not be too desparate the XB1 hasn't made it to CLEARANCE......... YET. :nod:Quote:
Originally Posted by JBHuskers
Well Amazon has lowered the price to $499.00 and they have had them in stock for some time now. They really should have released a kinect-less option at the same price.