Big Bill is watching you, brother!
ars technica om XBox 360
When it comes to gaming, Live Integration is a blessing and a curse. Games KICK YOU OUT when Live disconnects, even if the game's not a multiplayer title. Condemned did this to another Ars staffer several times due to an unruly 2.4Ghz phone in the house, and the same thing happened to me. Any time the phone rang, the wireless connections in the house all went down, taking his Live connection with it and booting him back to Condemned's starting screen. Keep in mind that Condemned is a one-person game. Why it should pee down its pants leg when Live goes down is anyone's guess. The simple solution is to sign out of Live when playing it, but you shouldn't have to do that.
Of course, the darker side to all this is that with a constant Internet connection and a ton of stats and achievements being tracked, Microsoft is going to know everything about playing history. How long do you play each game? When do you play your games? Against whom? Are you renting them (easy to tell if you play a game for two days intensely and then never again) or buying them? How often are you using voice chat?
Your gaming habits are going to be watched, commented on, and tabulated by Microsoft over the long term. While a lot of this is good for the gamer, as it allows for things like Microsoft being able to update servers in certain areas or during peak hours, a lot of it is just creepy. Microsoft is going to be able to aim content at you with laser-like precision once it realizes you only like playing FPS shooters games past three in the morning, or that you really love playing puzzle games before you go to work.
While I'm not hiding my gaming habits, it does kind of concern me to think of all the things that are being tracked online about me and my buying and playing schedules. You can even go to Xbox.com, look up people on your friends list, and see what games they've been playing or when. This may make it hard to avoid that Internet stalker who keeps inviting you to be his friend and then whines when he loses, and the whole thing is more than a little creepy. Microsoft is watching us, we're watching each other, and it's all very spooky.
en aspekt som kanske inte var så uppenbar, men skillnade mot Sonys root-kit blev nu mindre klar åas. undrar bara om det blir statistik på vad videofilerna som tankas över från Mediaspelaren heter också?
/ hoppsan, glömde: http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/xbox360.ars/1
Operativsystemet som löser nästan alla problem: Mint
