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Want To Record Xbox One Gameplay? Get Ready To Pay

Posted by timothy on from the nobody-rides-for-free dept.

First time accepted submitter tocsy writes "Microsoft has seemingly not learned from their previous PR fiasco. According to the official site, some features as basic as recording and sharing gameplay videos will require a $60/year Xbox Live Gold account. PS4 owners will of course also have to pay for some online services, but recording and streaming will not be exclusive to Plus subscribers."

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  1. Sony should hire the XBox PR dept by Omicron32 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Every time they open their mouths they make the PS4 look better.

  2. Nothing to see here by 0x15e · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is it really news that MS is requiring people to have a Gold account to use online features of an Xbox console? There's nothing going on here that wasn't already going on with the Xbox 360 ... except of course stirring up some more MS / Xbox One hate.

  3. Re:Either way. by Sarten-X · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yeah, Linux compatibility is a fraction of Windows Steam titles...

    As an utter jackass, I feel compelled to point out that every rational number, even those greater than one, are fractions.

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  4. Re:LOL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Until you "hold it wrong".

  5. Re:Either way. by Sarten-X · · Score: 5, Informative

    You missed the first definition, and all of the wit:

    1. A numerical quantity that is not a whole number

    Or, you could consider that the default dictionary is simply wrong. Improper fractions representing whole numbers are still fractions, and that limited scope doesn't even cover all of the fields that use the word "fraction". Try this one instead. It's a more complete set of definitions, but it does lack that particular insulting quality that you seem to hold so dear.

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  6. Re:Either way. by flargleblarg · · Score: 5, Informative

    You know, if you were just joking, then you should have just let it go. Now you look like you're grasping at straws to justify what you said, since any (reasonably-educated) native English speaker will be familiar with the definition of 'fraction' that he was using.

    Sarten-X is 100% correct — and his original post was hilarious in my opinion. Fractions do not need to be less than 1 (or greater than -1, for that matter). Common English definitions are irrelevant here; this is a mathematical definition.