My system wouldn't even be able to connect every 24 hours unless I played it every day. The rest of my HT stuff doesn't turn on until I turn the AVR on.
Like they give a crap.
I can't believe they treat "general population" as cookie-cutter made clones. What, everybody has the exact same time to play, same internet access, same financial status, same circuimstances that allow these retarded rules to exist?
What the hell? What if I am only home at weekends? What if I lose internet connection for few days? What if I want to sell the console because of one reason or other? What if I don't want to play anything with guddamn "Kinect"? What if I'm too short on money and I want to buy second-hand games?
Was it ever made clear on what happens if you don't connect your console within 24 hours?
Not the one to preach any conspiracies but does it look like to you guys, that somebody ordered one Microsoft bankrupt with fries?
Seriously,
Windows 8 sucks balls,
Visual Studio 2012 sucks balls (VS2010 was awesome, mind you!)
They removed DirectX SDK libraries support for C# a while back,
Their "Metro" interface looks like balls,
Xbox dOne sucks balls,
Windows Phone sucks balls, though not as hard but it might as well be on it's way.
I'd understand that if they had no competition in any of these fields, they could do whatever the heck they want. We've seen it happen. But it's obvious that they are going to lose huge market to competition if they continue ridiculous cr*p like this.
Business analysts and people who are generally good with concept of "money" go to schools and learn some highly advanced stuff like market trends so sh*t EXACTLY like this doesn't happen.
So what the hell?