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Originally Posted by PKFFW
They do not intend to ever buy legitimate software
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This is simply not supported by the facts. More, even if they never buy a retail game, if they buy from XBLA then they're still spending cash on games.
And no, it's not acceptable that a lot of people who did not mod their console get banned. Writing off customers is why big music has screwed itself. It can recover, games in the same situation? Wouldn't, the investment scales involved are too large.
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As for how it is working out for the music industry........the situations may be similar but they are not the same.
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They're near-as identical. In both, there are large numbers of people who don't legitimately purchase everything they want to play/listen to, and a very small minority who don't purchase anything they want to play/listen to.
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Firstly, my original statement was that regardless of the advertising, purchase of the Xbox does not bestow any right to access the Xbox live service. You claimed this was not so.
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Microsoft have, by their UK adverts, established a link. This is...their own choice, and they have to take the consequences for that. Note I consider this misguided and unfortunate on their part. Also, again, I'm sorry but you're simply showing ignorance of UK contract law.
And there is a free tier of online service, if you hadn't noticed. Notably, XBLA is accessable from it and you can buy games from there.
Wiping accounts wipes *virtual* property. The psycology simply is that this will piss a lot less people off in a permermant sense, but it's actually a bigger short-term hit to their self esteem. More, it's not environmentally friendly to permerantly ban consoles (And yes, that is an issue for me).
As to the "let it die"...which of the big music companies is innovating? Which of the big publishers? In games, the biggest publishers, EA and Activision, are some of the main drivers. It's not the same, and neither are the investment scales. The games industry can and is adapting, rather than standing still. The console platform holders are the only ones really standing still at this point, and Sony is at least trying (Nintendo basically don't give a shit, except on handheld, and Microsoft are as usual their own worst enemy).
Rubbishing survey results is all very well, but that was allready compensated for...you're simply finding excuses to avoid looking at the real issues. And yes, those pirates are going to slag off Microsoft instead, and offer to help mod other people's Xboxes.