@Octane Sorry, but I don't understand. I have to admit there was some confusion on my part, because it concerned a comment 2 pages back, so the warning came royally late, and as such, I never could have guessed which word and/or comment it concerned, until I started to browse back through the pages to find the infamous [removed] label.
As for the reason why I don't understand it, that is what I mentioned before, and I have to add the side note that my comments have been moderated before, and although this time around, it was only one word, there were occasions where an entire sentence was removed, and that is something that's hard to stomach, especially if you yourself haven't got any idea that you're doing something wrong, so it would be nice to simply get a warning notification and at least have a chance to correct the offending word/phrase yourself. If people don't respond to that initial warning, THEN I would understand.
It would be a penalty system similar to football/soccer: yellow card first, so the user is warned, red card next, if the behavior persists...
Oh, well. I'm not under any illusion that I'm going to single-handedly change and/or improve the site rules, but I did have to get this off my chest. Hope you can take that as it was intended, with no offense whatsoever.
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
@Yosheel Sorry to disappoint, but you didn't make it any clearer, because I have NO idea what the R-word is. Remember: I might be American, but I've been living in the Netherlands for 39 years, so I'm not up to speed with all these abbreviations anymore. All I know is F-bombs...
(but I know the actual offending word now, as you may have read in my previous comment/rant)
@DarthNocturnal If you mean the exact word that I was accidentally misusing, then we're on the same page.
@BlueOcean I won't say that your trust is misplaced, but you do need to keep in mind that even if a company is highly customer-friendly, in the end, it's still a company that continually needs to make money and needs to move forward, so if something makes no business sense for them anymore, then they will move on and drop support.
Second, not ALL OG Xbox and Xbox 360 titles are backward compatible, obviously, and we don't know yet how many titles they're going to add or are willing to add to the catalog, so there's that to consider as well. And that is the predominant reason why I would NEVER want to go for digital only, or for a console that doesn't accept discs. Because that would also mean that I wouldn't be able to install my old games on it, and that I would have to succumb to that "trade in your old disc-based games for a digital version" program, and that is something that will never be an option for me.
I want to be able to play these games LONG after Microsoft has dropped/abandoned the service, much like how
I now still play my Dreamcast games, and GameCube games, and so on. They're all mine, and NO ONE is going to prevent me from enjoying them for as long as I want to.
By the way: there are already 5 layer Blu-ray discs, although not for mainstream usage yet. These can hold up to 125GB of uncompressed data, and if you compress that and allow the console to extract from disc, then you could easily put around 160 - 180GB on there.
@Yosheel By the way: forgot to mention something concerning one of your earlier comments.
I know you were partly joking about how long you would need to be downloading games for, once you'll have the Xbox One installed, but how good/bad is your internet? I'm downloading at around 4 - 5MB (Megabyte) per second, and when I first installed my Xbox One S, I had to install around 76 games, from a selection of 194(!) games collected over a period of two years with Games with Gold. I didn't have an Xbox One back then, just the 360, but since I knew I was going to get one eventually anyway, I started collecting Xbox One games as well, as soon as they were added to the Games with Gold initiative.
I just let it download during the day, from around 4 - 5pm, and over night, and it was done around 1pm the next day with all of them, so if you only have a couple of games, and a decent internet connection, then it really won't take all that long. Just install the console, set up the downloads, and go do something else for a couple of hours, or go to school/work, and when you come back, you'll be good to go.
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
My internet is a bit unstable.... It can go from downloading 4 GB in one hour to taking forever to load Google... Depending on how it feels that day I guess.
I do expect all the downloads to take at least a day though.
@Yosheel How many games did you end up getting then?
I don't know if you already added any from the Games with Gold page, but Battlefield 1 is a rather big download. The other games not so much.
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
@Yosheel I think you mean Mass Effect 360?
Anyway, yeah, that could take the larger part of a day, depending on how your internet holds up in that particular moment.
Some of these games are relatively small though: Layers of Fear is only a couple of Gigabytes, and Crackdown, which you forgot to list (), is somewhere around 6.5GB, but Final Fantasy will probably be just as big as Battlefield, if not bigger. Most Xbox 360 games are installed in next to no time.
By the way, something you might not know yet: Xbox One uses a very specific install method, that'll allow quite a few games to already being playable while they're still being installed. It's called the ready to play feature, and most of the time, it's activated, once the game is either one-third or halfway installed, so if you're waiting for that last game to install (or whichever one), you don't have to wait until it's completely finished, and then it will install the rest in the background while you're playing. It's a pretty neat feature.
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
That sounds like a nice feature. Will probably just try Viva Piñata out and forget about everything else though.
Ok good news, the Xbox bundles haven't gone any cheaper (except one of the Xs which is about 360 dollars, ha). So I can officially say I got it for the lowest price available.
Also I, let's add The Evil Within 2 to that list of digital games.
That's it for now, promise.
As extra data: the switch stayed as the most expensive basic-model console this buen fin at around 300 dollars, with the PS4 Slim almost reaching it's US sale price at 230 dollars.
Does anyone own the Master Chief Collection digitally? If so have you had any issues with it installing twice, repeatedly? Thought I fixed this a while back when the monster patch came out yet I just noticed it’s there, installed twice again under games & apps. If I ‘manage’ either of them they both show 2 x 73.4gb download files and the kicker is the situation is exactly the same on my other box!
I’m copying the game to the internal storage and deleting the second install on one of the boxes to see if that works; had previously deleted one copy from each box but it’s obviously downloaded it again. All 145gb. Nice.
Will keep looking online but haven’t seen/found anyone else yet with the issue so might be time to raise with MS/343 but wanted to check here first. Alternative is to delete it I guess as I never play it really anymore, but that won’t scratch the ‘why doesn’t it work?’ itch...
Also, yeah, fallout 76 still sucks. I jumped back into TES:O and it's stilla vastly Superior game. It's bizarre. Teso is a legit mmo made by a different studio, Zenimax, the parent company of Bethesda that actually specializes only in MMOs but feels like a legit TES game. They really added on. Somerset at lanch just dumped you in the city after the tutorial. Now it starts you in a smaller city with real quests, npcs, dialogs..... It'sa real game that happens to be online.
76 is made by Bethesda game studios itself, isn't supposed to be an actual mmo, and the devs compared it to teso saying that teso is a traditional mmo, while 76 is more "fallout with your friends". Meanwhile 76 is an empty universe with nothing to do beyond bland inventory and crafting micromanement, and frequent zombies, and teso feels likea genuine game.
@NEStalgia maybe i’m having these issues because of you? I certainly seem to have caught the technical gremlins per se...
I’ve been posting in this thread for maybe 2 weeks now? In that time i’ve had 2 (second one yesterday - guide button) controllers break and now this? Pretty sure the RDR2 controls must somehow be your fault too... Just got to prove it somehow?
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