Banned for Early Xbox One Impressions

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A few people have reported that Target shipped there XBO pre-order early. One guy, Moonlightswami, took to twitter and started posting impression. With an unwarranted void of next-gen information, it came as no surprise the Internet gobbled this up. Soon Moonlightswami was a celebrity and the story was picked up by Kotaku and The Verge.

Moonlightswami doesn't work for the gaming industry, he isn't a journalist, didn't signed any NDA and he didn't do anything unethical to obtain his Xbox. He was just a guy who got his Xbox early due to a shipping error and shared his glowing impressions with a hungry fanbase.

Moonlightswami's impressions were anything but negative. They captured minor details that fans wanted but have alluded the pre-canned PR nuggets Microsoft has doled out. He made no comparisons to the PS4 - something the game journalist would not afford MS. Pixel counts didn't cone up either, just a dude sharing his joy with others.

So after a few short hours of positive, free publicity, which has arguably done more to hype the Xbox One than months of Microsoft marketing, what was their response? Microsoft, to show their appreciation, quickly took to shutting down his videos ...then his Twitter and finally banned is Xbox.

The point to all this circles back around to the headache Microsoft has been dealing with since E3 - publicity, and Microsoft's inability to understand how to deal with it - good or bad. I get then want to keep some mystery with the Xbox One, that then want to control the flow of info until it is released but they have been doing a poor job of building hype so why look this gift horse in the mouth? No, why shoot this gift horse in the face? Its just more ugly they don't need - especially considering the positives this small "breach" has gained them.

Instead of shooting a puppy in public to stop him from barking, why not extend an olive branch. Give thanks and offer a treat to silence him. When all is said and done about this "next gen" it will be Microsoft's public relations that proves to be their largest hurdle.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/9/5083780/xbox-one-early-pre-order-deliveries
http://kotaku.com/and-heres-another-guy-who-seems-to-have-an-xbox-one-a-1461279632

And since I posted this we find Microsoft's Major Nelson has already been put on clean up duty again- announcing the ban will not be permanent. The same problem we have seen since E3- blindly overreact, shoot first and then send in a marketing team to try and wipe down the blood. All this could be avoided if Microsoft just thought first before shooting.

http://kotaku.com/if-youre-following-the-brouhaha-over-the-guy-who-got-an-1461436967
 
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and I did get a chance to se it
totally cool
I want an xbox even more
so I may understand the why, behind what they did
it would have been smarter to just go with it..
too many old fogeys at microsoft
 
I felt it was fair and swift what microsoft did to defuse the situation. If they let him be on his "Mary way" the whole community would be in an up roar wanting there xbox's now. The effect that would have on retailers would be bad too.

Personally I didn't see any shoot now ask questions later motives going on here at all. There was a mistake, they let this guy have his 15mins of fame and moved on. If anyone is up on the firing squad right now it's definitely not MS marketing team, it would be Target, and how they where able to make this mistake has yet to be shown.
 
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Plainview said:
Always with some conspiracy theory. The OP asked for it to be deleted because he didn't want to start up a flame war. Take off your tinfoil hat.
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I never threw around a conspiracy theory about anything. I just found it odd for the thread to deleted and now to find out it was deleted because someone doesn't want to start a flame war....lolz every thread is a flame war know one agrees with anything others say. Is he telling you to delete every thread he makes instead of locking it?
 
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I said this before, but it needs to be repeated.

The people in charge for PR are not the people who banned the guy. Some guy making 10-12 dollars an hour who is told to watch out for illegally obtain products did.

This is and will be sorted out once he shows his proof of purchas. But you also can't forget about Microsoft partners and the contracts with them.
 
Wow, s***ty move by MS, they literally cannot go a single day with good news, without the worst possible scenario happening immediately afterwards.
 
MS is completely in the wrong here and are doing what they do as usual, tarnishing their reputation. If you buy a product legally, there is zero reason MS should ban you for using it. Sure they can penalize Target all they want, which we all know they won't, but to penalize the consumer? They will never learn.
 
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Obscene Jester said:
MS is completely in the wrong here and are doing what they do as usual, tarnishing their reputation. If you buy a product legally, there is zero reason MS should ban you for using it. Sure they can penalize Target all they want, which we all know they won't, but to penalize the consumer? They will never learn.
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They absolutely can say that you can't access XBox Live from a retail XB1 console before the console's street date, though, which is... you know... precisely what this is.
 
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hrudey said:
They absolutely can say that you can't access XBox Live from a retail XB1 console before the console's street date, though, which is... you know... precisely what this is.
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Nah, still anti-consumer. He legally bought a console and it is not like those functions were not yet available, they simply chose to ban him for doing nothing more than using a product he purchased.
 
The anti-MS gaming media still runs wild! "Shipping error"... yeah ok.

Game publishers will get people banned who play a game early too, but when MS does it, they are the evil empire. So out of touch with the average poor gamer who was just sitting innocently as a package was magically delivered to his door early.

I also love the added touch of the "surprise day 1 patch" needed to play! OMG! We had no idea that was coming. Except that MS announced it ages ago. Has this poor gamer gotten over the trauma of having to connect onto this scary network of computers to play some video games?
 
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xbgamer7 said:
Dude got temp banned for showing unfinished stuff on a system he should not have, MS has every right to do what they did.
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Really? Then why are they reversing it? And he never signed any NDA's. If anything they should hire the guy; he gave MS better PR than anyone on their team has since the reveal. In the midst of that they pissed in his Cheerios and made themselves look worse again. Bravo MS, bravo. And they managed to show why the vision they had of all digital MS future looks like a very scary proposition.

Things won't be right at MS until they clean house in the gaming division. It is one crisis to the next every single day. After all of this bungling it is long overdue.
 
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Obscene Jester said:
Nah, still anti-consumer. He legally bought a console and it is not like those functions were not yet available, they simply chose to ban him for doing nothing more than using a product he purchased.
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They're preventing that console from accessing XBox Live. He's not being blocked from using his console at his home however he wishes to, but he is being prevented from accessing features of XBox Live that are not intended to be available to the public until the console launches. The fact that the features are there is most likely so people who have signed the appropriate NDAs can access it for review purposes - it doesn't make it a free-for-all.
 
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Obscene Jester said:
Nah, still anti-consumer. He legally bought a console and it is not like those functions were not yet available, they simply chose to ban him for doing nothing more than using a product he purchased.
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He's been banned from connecting to live not the console.
 
Rezlus said:
Major nelson said that it's not perm-banned on gaf.
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I know that part, it didn't say anywhere that it was only until launch though. That seems to be implied by everyone based off of..
 
http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/09/early-xbox-one-details/
Update 3: A Microsoft spokesperson tells Engadget that the Xbox One consoles some consumers received by accident well ahead of launch on November 22nd cannot access Xbox Live until closer to launch. The statement says: "Due to a retail partner's system issue, a very small number of Xbox One consoles were shipped to consumers before the November 22 street date. We're pleased to see the initial response to Xbox One has been so positive, but given we are still putting the finishing touches on our games, UI and online services, as well as confidential partner and media agreements, these consoles units will be restricted from connecting to Xbox Live until closer to our launch date."
 
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Obscene Jester said:
Nah, still anti-consumer. He legally bought a console and it is not like those functions were not yet available, they simply chose to ban him for doing nothing more than using a product he purchased.
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They only banned him from XBL on the X1, and it's temporary. He still has use of the console offline. The console was obtained before the street date so MS is fully within their rights to block online access until the 22nd, it's amazing how many people make a mountain out of a mole hill, or try to make it look like MS is a big bad guy.
 
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