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Microsoft Creative Director 'Doesn't Get' Always-On DRM Concerns
New submitter SoVi3t points out comments from Microsoft Studios Creative Director Adam Orth about the debate over always-online DRM, brought to the fore recently by the disastrous launch of SimCity and rumors that the next-gen Xbox console will require it.
"Don't want a gaming console that requires a persistent internet connection? 'Deal with it,' says Microsoft Studio's creative director. In what he later termed a 'fun lunch break,' Orth took to Twitter to express his shock at people who take umbrage with the idea of an always-on console. When quizzed by other Twitter users about people with no internet connection, he suggested that they should get one, as it is 'awesome.' He then likened people who worry about intermittent internet connectivity being an issue as the same as someone not buying a vacuum cleaner because the electricity sometimes goes out. While Orth later apologized, saying it had being a bit of banter with friends, it did raise awareness that there are more than a few people who are very unhappy with the possibility of an always-on future version of the Xbox. Orth has also now switched his Twitter account settings to private."
Maybe he is auditioning for head writer on the soon to be released Sony PS4 ad campaign?
That group of bovine standing over there appears quite portentous. That's right it's an ominous cow herd.
"When quizzed by other Twitter users about people with no internet connection, he suggested that they should get one"
"When quizzed by the Microsoft Studio's creative director about clues, other Twitter users suggested that he should get one"
http://i.imgur.com/IWPsqOR.png
This is the shot I saw of some of his comments that was posted on Reddit. He seems to be rather out of touch.
Not sure if this one is real (the above I feel pretty confident is untouched) but found it funny:
http://i.imgur.com/rixjoS6.jpg
It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
The Microsoft vacuum cleaner, the first Microsoft product that doesn't suck.
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"Most people don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?" - Thomas Hesse (Sony BMG's president of global digital business 2005)
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it." - K
"You don't have kids, do you?"
You don't have any parental abilities do you?
While the kid lives in your house it does what you tell it. If that means no console then it'll have to suck it up or get out. If you haven't grasped that then you're another in a long list of douches who should've used contraception.
You're right about the budget numbers, but I wonder how much of the $100M is sales and marketing costs, which a kickstarter needs less of, since they get paid upfront for development.
Not kidding myself about kickstarted AAA games, but a good team might be able to come close.
if its a legitimate rootkit...
sorry couldn't resist
This is one reason we insist you use CAR analogies on Slashdot.