This cloud thins is just another way for microsoft to fulfill their dream: a world 100% digital, where every single office, windows, avatar, in game photos, emails, voice messages, videos, books, movies, music, everything is on one server, where people pay to gain access to, where they can manage, impose, control, advertise, etc the way the want, where people actually don’t own nothing, they just pay for having a temporary right to do something.
Why having to make a game, have it reach gold, have it made, packed, distributed even on the small store on that agadogou 300 people African village, have to store it, not know how many units were actually sold, etc, when,simply, the product could be on a server, purchased and downloaded 1 million times, at no cost at all, no stores, no transport, no retailers, no stock, nothing.

You want to play halo? Buy a gold subscription,then, pay your 60$ for the game, when a digital should logically cost less, play your game. In 2 years, a new halo game is released. They will block your access to the first halo, will shut down servers, and you will be forced to buy the next version, the old one not working anymore, they took it out of the server.

This is the world microsoft wants,and their initial plans for the xbox one were almost 100$ like that.

People can still play their sonic or ,Mario on SNES or mega drive, today.
When you buy an xbox, if they decide to drop it, and release a new console, 3 years later, since all the games required day-one patches and use cloud/servers for many features, simply, your console becomes a brick. Just like apple, which I hate, sell their phones without a minisdhc slot, so you have to pay 200$ extra,for extra 16 gb of space, where buying a card would cost you like 6-8$, like they make their phones with a solved battery(my HTC desire HD battery was dead,I simply just spent like 25$ for a new battery, the phone is like new again, and works flawlessly), if the iPhone battery is dead, well, everything is made so each year, you get a new model.

Now, unfortunately, they make so many online shit on games that don’t even have an online multiplayer feature, all games are tied to internet/servers, and it’s becoming worse each day, in 3 years, if microsoft decides to drop the xbox one, like they did with the first xbox, most of your games won’t be playable, since they depend on clouds and servers and subscriptions. The only choice you will have is buying a new model, and burning the xbox one and all its games.

I’m happy at least, until 2020+, the ps4 will sell boxed games. With may policies, microsoft almost killed video games, forever. Their greed should be rewarded with only 1/4 of the ps4 sales, with fans moving to the ps4.

If I play a single player game, I don’t want to be tied to cloud shit.map I can play my game in 20 years, if I want to. Microsoft thinks gamers are like office 2013 customers,and want to treat people the same way.

The message was clear. Gamers want a new console for playing games. Buying a game isn’t the same as buying office 2013 family pack. Unfortunately, microsoft thinks otherwise. We, gamers, are just a bunch of walking wallets.
No,mister. We are gamers, and want to play games by pressing buttons.we did it since 40 years, and it has been amazing. Don’t want to start a game by yelling at a NSA-compliant kinekt device. Let us play games like we like, like we always did. If we don’t fit your plans, quit making consoles and buying exclusive cod content, and return adding new features on that office 2015 version, where the ‘save as’ first option will be the NSA, I mean sky drive cloud servers, so in 3 years, if people want to access their word file, they must buy a 99$ year skydrive plan. Perfect world, huh, microsoft?