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Eel

@ThanosReXXX ok, let me give you a better hint: In european english this word basically like the R-word.

About the alerts, if a user edits a comment and they don't remove the word, a new alert is issued as if it was a new offense.

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ThanosReXXX

@Yosheel Never mind, found the comment, and redacted/replaced the moderated part with a milder word.
Having it say "[removed] movements" made it look rather stupid, so butchered after all, in my opinion.

I'm quite sensitive and protective, where that is concerned. A bit strange though, that you didn't notify me at the moment I used it, seeing as we were in direct conversation, and I would assume that you're also still modding and would see it hit the profanity filter(?)

But offensive enough to end up in the profanity filter? Really? Wow, only in England... This isn't an offensive word in 99% of the world, so I never even expected it to be wrong to use it, much less that I would get notified about it. It's a normal word, and singular derivatives of it, such as spasm, are also words that you'd come across in every day language, without them ever having any intent to hurt or insult anyone. Heck, I could be talking about my horse having spasms. Wonder if that would have been [removed] as well...

But, I don't have a horse, so that's all hypothetically speaking.

/end rant

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'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.'

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Eel

I don't really spend the whole day in the alerts page! I'm also not English, so that means I did completely forget it was a slur...

Do keep in mind this site is English first and foremost... So they tailor their profanity sensor to include words offensive to them.

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Banjo-

I think that next generation we will have a premium Xbox console (like X) with disc reader and a disc-less console (like the disc-less Xbox One), but I am not ruling a third streaming device out, that third model would just stream the games like PS Now worked on Bravia TVs.

We have a clue in today's rumours. If we ignore the launch Xbox One model and considering that Xbox One XS is a revised S, there are three Xbox One models: the X, the S/XS and the disc-less.

As for the digital rights, I wouldn't buy digital games if I didn't trust Microsoft's commitment to respect backwards ownership. Consider that they were the first and only company to offer free digital downloads, free remasters on X, if you own the discs all the way back to their first console even though they invested a lot of time and human resources in designing and improving the backwards compatibility functionality. Obviously, there are some limitations regarding supported Xbox 360 and Xbox games.

The future Xbox hardware will be backwards-compatible (Xbox One and supported Xbox and 360 games) and respect our digital games library. If you ask me if there will be consoles with a disc reader after the next generation then I don't know what to answer, who knows. However, the BDs are based on the original CD concept released 36 years ago. Optical discs are a convenient data storage format that get physical protection improvements and bigger data capacities from 650MB to 100GB and beyond, increased every time they refine the laser technology.

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ThanosReXXX

@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.'

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ThanosReXXX

@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.

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'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.'

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ThanosReXXX

@DarthNocturnal Man, my head is starting to hurt. I'm not getting that, at ALL, sorry.

'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.'

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ThanosReXXX

@Yosheel I already did, as you can see in the second half of comment #6,042...

'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.'

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ThanosReXXX

@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.'

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Eel

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.

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ThanosReXXX

@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.'

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Eel

Well let's see, from here and there I have bought:

  • Soma
  • Resident Evil 5
  • Resident Evil 6
  • Layers of Fear + Inheritance
  • Mass Effect (360)
  • Lego Jurassic World
  • Final Fantasy XV Royal Edition

Plus whatever the gold games are this month, plus Viva Piñata which I have as a disc.

I'm also considering Monster Hunter World and The Evil Within 2.

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ThanosReXXX

@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.

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Eel

Oh right Crackdown too.

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.

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Eel

Well it IS discounted. It's usually more expensive.

The regular price here in Mexico is around 450 dollars. Although it usually hovers around 350-400.

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BrainOfGrimlock

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...

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Eel

Oh my God this is just depressing.

There's like 5 well rated reviews in the Fortnite Xbox One S bundle, and ALL OF THEM are people begging Amazon to put up more stock of this bundle.

They even go so far as saying "it's my birthday, please sell me one!".

There's still other Xbox bundles for the same price, don't they know they can just download Fortnite in one of those? What is this timeline?

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Eel

Truly the darkest of timelines.

I think what gets me the most is that they're giving the thing great scores and posting reviews just to beg for it. It's like... Ugh.

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