Mokuze7,535 (5,997)

I also like this one: http://www.ratemymotivational.com/18906-DARN_IT-No_twinkies_in_THERE_either

Agreed, Rhy. I'm also still waiting to get firm info on used games. That's another deal-breaker.

If there's no always-on, then there's probably no DRM, but we'll see on the 21st, I guess.

Well, the devs could go the Steam route and tie a single disc to one account/console, effectively killing the used games market.

That would be the logical progression of the online pass codes. Making consoles no different than PC gaming.

Never really bought the Always on/DRM/no used game sales rumors... The world's internet is just not ready for always on/broadband only connections.

An internal document smacks of damage control? I don't think it is realistic to expect them to address rumours months before their official reveal..

people can then start to rumours just to get the answers if they did that.

the way I am reading the article, it doesn't seem to really confirm anything either. For all we know the always on might be something like how a cable box works or

something else that might not be easily explained without the reveal

An internal memo that, unless they were complete idiots, would know would be leaked? That's damage control. As pervasive and damaging as the rumor has the potential to be

as the always-on thing is/was, they would be much better served by either denying or confirming it, rather than the PR bullshit of "We don't talk about rumors", which

people are assuming it is all about drm, but we won't know until all is revealed and then it could be something where we realize that it is some cool feature

only allows the rumor to get bigger and gain more steam, especially as other sources serve to reinforce it.

That's the bad thing about assuming and rumour, of course it is free advertising keeping the xbox in the spotlight.

Once they do their actual release and the community gains a sigh of relief, it looks that much better.

You talk like engineers never do anything silly that might lead to leak like leaving a prototype iphone in a bar or something.

That saying, "There's no such thing as bad press?"...ya, that's bullshit. By the time they do their release, people will have made up their minds. Saying it's not as bad

as it could be isn't exactly something to be proud of. This was beyond something 'silly'. It was a fundamental change in the nature of the system/relationship.

On top of it you had that guy telling people to deal with "Always On". Yeah it's damage control as Rhy pointed out. It was intended to be leaked.

If the policy and the design program was always "no internet required" then why the hell would a big corporation release an internal memo just to say

"hey this is our policy! don't forget it!" months after that PR blowback on the rumors? They would've addressed it right away. I think always on was a very real design.

Big corporations do internal memos like that all the time - corporations are not monoliths. People who don't know blab and fuck everything up.

A lot of corporations have an internal communications team that exists solely to get people on-message about this kind of stuff.

The leaking of the memo may be calculated, but people ascribe way too much conspiracy to the activities of worker drones in an office.

I think some people had their mind made up before the system existed, but perhaps there is something relating to always being on that they can't elaborate on and not deny

Maybe they didn't want to deny because they wanted sony to do it first, who knows. That is ultimately why it is best to wait to see what it is before making your mind up

I work for a university and there is internal memos that wind up the local news, they don't want them in the news, but they have to communicate with the staff sometimes

so that the staff doesn't respond inappropriately.

I run connected most of the time anyway so that my achievements are date stamped, but eventually always on will come anyway since that is what it is about these days.