Comments on: Microsoft’s misguided Xbox Live strategy

By: phone number lookup

phone number lookup — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 01:15:00 +0000

You seem to know your stuff very well.

By: phone number lookup

phone number lookup — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 01:15:00 +0000

You seem to know your stuff very well.

By: phone number lookup

phone number lookup — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 01:15:00 +0000

You seem to know your stuff very well.

By: Fazo

Fazo — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:26:23 +0000

LOL Thats all he can say?! “I'll pass that along to the team”?!

By: Gareth Willmer

Gareth Willmer — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:30:50 +0000

Isnt Xbox Live a world wide gaming service. If its not availible in certain countries then that makes it a conitnental wide service or something along those terms. The fact sony support africa doesnt help Microsoft one bit and after the 3 red lights issue the last thing they need is a Public Relations Crisis.

By: Gareth Willmer

Gareth Willmer — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:30:50 +0000

By: Gav

Gav — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 06:17:55 +0000

I think the Major was just satisfying you hunger for a response, he is always too busy playing games. What an awesome job he has!

By: Anghild

Anghild — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:34:37 +0000

Sony allows us to connect to our own PSN store, even though the servers aren't hosted locally. There is no reason for Microsoft not to do the same.

I can understand that a local server would/might sort out lag experienced in some games, but so far everyone is used to playing on the UK servers in any case.

I would love to see Microsoft do some honest advertising. "Play online if you commit fraud, learn how to fake your identity now" I'm sure that would make parents proud. Fits in nicely with the countries profile, don't you think.

@CraigN - When is MS finally gonna provide us with proper dates, or info. Do you play illegally as well, or do you only play games by your lonesome self, never going online? Don't understand why you are always defending MS so feverishly. I'ts been 3 years, the charade is getting old.

By: Simon Dingle

Simon Dingle — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:14:36 +0000

It sounds like you're suggesting that we should be grateful for the half-assed Xbox presence in South Africa. I'm afraid that I can't agree with that thinking. What I will offer, however, is little pity for South Africans that pay full price for half products. We should let our wallets do the talking, but unfortunately we have a special flavour of consumer apathy in this country where we think that we deserve what we get and must 'bly stil' about it. Harks back to our dark past.

Yes, of course there is more to launching the service than just launching it. You'd need local servers, payment gateways and other supporting resources. But I'm not sure what that has to do with anything.

Like I said - Sony has done it. So I can't see why Microsoft wouldn't be able to.

"It's better than nothing" is not an argument.

By: CraigN

CraigN — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:06:53 +0000

Sure we pay full price and we don't have the full Xbox LIVE experience. Consider the alternative, we could be without the Xbox 360 console at all waiting for official Xbox LIVE support and the console to be released in South Africa still.

I'm not trying to justify the decision by Microsoft to release the console locally before Xbox LIVE, I'm just attempting to put things in perspective. Supporting Xbox LIVE in South Africa is not as simple as adding South Africa to the supported countries list.

If you'd like to chat about it, get in touch with me.