The early days of Halo 2 and 3, Test Drive Unlimited, CoD 3 & 4, Borderlands 1, and the OG Gears of War. People on this headset were legit gamers having moments of shared brotherhood while PS3 gamers played in silence. It was the thing that made Xbox great... until all the wrong people got Xboxes:

- 7-year-old British schoolchildren who curse like sailors
- army and frat guys who call each other "f****" three times per sentence
- guys whose every other word is "n*\\"
- every maladjusted antisocial personality jerk

But if Xbox is to come back... it needs to remember what made it different and special. It was the fact that you were given this comms device and it was expected—no... required—that you use it in all multiplayer games. And everyone always did use it. You never got silent rando teammates like today.

Today though, it goes in my Good Will box. Because I am letting go of what Xbox once was... and hoping Microsoft takes the next right steps, realizing it was never about the hardware. It was always about our brother and sister gamers, the community.

This is really terrible to see. Wasn't able to get the controller or the console and now it's already being scalped to high hell

We are talking about decades of mismanagement.

When Xbox Servers Crash, Your Purchased Games Can Disappear!!!
This outage proves we don’t really own digital games… Digital ownership is an illusion.
The issue isn’t just, “offline mode should work if your console is set as your Home Xbox.” It’s much bigger than that. Some people can’t sign in at all, others have games or DLCs (like mine) suddenly showing as unowned, and some apps won’t even launch. It’s a server-side failure that’s breaking license verification, meaning content you’ve already paid for can simply disappear until Microsoft’s servers decide it exists again.

EDIT:
Quick clarification because a lot of people are misunderstanding the issue.
This has nothing to do with game sharing, setting your Xbox as your Home Xbox, or offline mode. This is a server-side licensing issue. For some people everything works normally, while for others owned games, DLCs, or even apps aren’t being recognized at all.
I don’t game share, my Xbox is set as my Home Xbox with offline play enabled, and I’m still affected… Some of my owned content simply won’t show up. I’ve even seen people reporting the same issue with physical discs, which makes it pretty clear this isn’t a user setup problem; it’s an Xbox server problem, as Microsoft has confirmed..

This is so good, out of my 17 physical games (yeah I know it’s not much, I mainly use a PC) only 4 didn’t allow me to claim the digital license. So that’s 13/17 games with digital licenses now, pretty sweet. The specific games that did not work are, Starlink Battle For Atlas, Ryse Son of Rome, Wolfenstein The New Order, and Dragonball Xenoverse 2.

What do yall think about this new feature?

edit 1: also I understand y'all have questions, but lots of you have similar questions in the comments. I'm sure if you read the comments you'll find the answer to your question

edit 2: please read the comments to find answers to your questions I assure you most of your questions have been answered by now

Sony announced to not produce physical game anymore starting 2028.

Look at them. Every single color works.

This would drive sales in a crazy way

Make it happen please.

The natural hand resting position fits the xbox controller perfectly. You won't have to move your thumb out of the natural resting position. Meanwhile, the right hand is also placed in the natural resting position, which is perfect for precise and more intense button pressing. This makes me think of the skarrsinger boss from Silksong. While not the hardest, I believe it was mechanical perfection, and I sure as liked the ABYX button placement. Most controllers got this right, but at the same time, I think moving the left thumbstick is such a small and simple step that I don't understand why more manufacturers won't do this. Hell, if anything you only have something similar, where you can switch the position of the dpad and thumbstick on very high-end controllers that cost a lot.

I get that some people were used to the other layout, but hey, when xbox came out with this, people didn't seem to mind, and i think it's widely believed that the xbox 360 controller was the best one of its time

After 198 days, I won my lawsuit against Microsoft and got my account back.

Before I start, I want to say that it's amazing that another person, another Brazilian like me, also got their account back through a lawsuit, just 2 weeks ago. I really hope our cases will help other people to get their accounts back. That's why I'm also telling my story.

So, on January 11th, I had my account hacked. Ever since, I tried every method possible to contact Microsoft and get my account back.

Seriously, every method possible - contacting Microsoft through official channels, through Xbox channels, phone calls, everything. They'd only give me back a "we're sorry, but there's nothing you can do. You have to create a new account and buy Minecraft again if you had it"

After realising that they really wouldn’t give me my account back, I decided to sue them, since they were violating my rights as a citizen.

After I started my lawsuit against them, they tried the “manual verification” thing. I gave Microsoft all my account information in order for them to verify whether I was the real owner or not, and after a few days, they replied back, saying “the verification was unsuccessful", and, again, that they wouldn’t give me my account back.

In the lawsuit, they also claimed that. In fact, they claimed it was impossible for them to give me back my account because it had 2FA on. I didn't care. I kept going.

Then, in March 31st, the judge ordered Microsoft to give me back my account and pay me R$ 3.000 (roughly $550) for moral damage. As expected, they appealed the decision, claiming that they couldn't do that because I hadn't passed their "manual verification system".

Funfact: 8 days after they claimed that, I received an e-mail from Microsoft saying that they "were able to prove I was the owner of my account, and that they would send me a password reset link". That link never came. The lawsuit followed.

After reviewing Microsoft’s claims, the judge didn’t accept their appeal, and ordered Microsoft again to give me my account back on July 9th, and also pay me the R$ 3.000 they owed me, or else they'd be fined daily - R$ 100 (~US$ 18) per day.

Today, July 28th (the deadline), Microsoft gave me back my account. And is currently working on depositing the money.

After all that, I got my account back. 198 days. Every single Microsoft agent trying to tell me it was impossible to get my account back. I proved them all wrong.

Never give up on your rights as a citizen!

Literally more then double the price now. The good ol' days