Here, here.
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Personally I’m not sure where I fit into this. I am one of those who are not afraid to criticize Xbox, whilst still being a huge fan. I sure as hell don’t shill for Sony though, so I guess I’m safe?
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Constructive criticism is and will always be welcome.
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Good to hear, sometimes it’s easy to get carried away so it’s good with reminders like this though.
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I completely agree and apologize for being an asshole at times or if it seems like im favoring PlayStation over Xbox which for this generation is simply not the case. While I do love the majority of Sony’s first party published titles and do believe that they’re the best in the industry for what they are and do especially since I am a single player story driven gamer but everything else Sony has done in regards to PlayStation 5 and in general, simply sucks and has been disappointing. In fact, if it wasn’t for Sony’s first party published titles, there would have been no reason for me to buy and own a PlayStation 5.
As for Xbox, im loving the Series X and including the $800 console bundle, I have invested exactly $1340 since January 4th when I received the Series X compared to the $735 I spent on PlayStation 5 console bundle and $120 for Miles/Ratchet totaling $855. The gap is already a decent size and will continue to increase as the years and generation progresses.
Point is that if I wasn’t a fan or liked Xbox, I wouldn’t have invested all that money into the Xbox eco-system. I know I may come across as an Xbox hater or PlayStation lover which is hilarious to me but nevertheless, that’s not my intention at all. I simply want to see Microsoft deliver better high quality first party published titles that I actually want to play and while others may take it the wrong way, the simple fact and truth is that for me, they miss more times than hit which is not my fault. Because of this, I get frustrated and annoyed because it always seems like every time they may “nail it”, they don’t in this regard.
With that said, that is my only negative with Microsoft and Xbox because everything else they have done has been excellent from Game Pass to Backwards Compatibility (BioMutant is a perfect example) to getting games in Game Pass day one to acquiring ZeniMax to acquiring other studios and who knows what else in the future but as great as all of this stuff is, the main aspect I care about the most because I see it as the most important, is the one that they haven’t hit on yet.
I’m still the most hyped and excited (despite it probably not appearing as such) for Xbox and the eco-system that I have been in literally over a decade and I will be more positive and whatnot towards Xbox in the present and future as I do like this site a lot (and way more than I ever liked NeoGAF or ResetERA) and obviously, don’t want to be banned or kicked of the site. That honestly would suck.
Sorry for the long post and again, apologies for the negativity and repeating the same stuff over and over. I give you guys my word that ends now.
Anyway, hoping for an awesome E3 as im looking forward to it and overall, very hyped for it all and yes, that includes the Microsoft/Bethesda showcase which hopefully, we’ll get the exact date and time of this week.
Just wanted to post what I wanted to say.
- Peter
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There’s nothing wrong with preferring PlayStation. It’s not a pre-requisite of being on this forum that you need to prefer Xbox.
The above message is more about how things are discussed.
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I know but thanks for saying that. For clarity, as of now, it’s only their exclusives that I prefer. 
Our issue on Reset had nothing to do with who preferred what console.
It was that you couldn’t discuss anything Xbox without it being shitposted and concern trolled into oblivion with little to no moderator intervention. Hell, people were even being banned for “reporting too much”. It became a joke.
You can prefer PlayStation or Switch and still talk Xbox (or anything else) like a normal human.
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Thanks so much for this post and banner. I absolutely love this this site and everything that you guys do along with the awesome community, and this is exactly how I was hoping things could be addressed given how I have felt at times recently reading through stuff. And yes I have a PS5 currently even though it doesn’t get turned on too often compared to my Series X 
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Okay. I understand completely. That’s what I don’t want to happen here and is why I joined XboxEra in the first place.
Ah a good reminder.
I do want to reiterate the importance of being able to constructively criticize Microsoft and the Xbox. The problem with other places isn’t just the constant negativity, it is also that when everything Xbox is spun to be end of the world negative you can’t even get an honest discussion about improving things that need to be improved. It is ironic that much of the discourse about the Xbox has actually had the opposite effect those spreading the negativity intended. I don’t think Microsoft goes all in to making large studio purchases without the constant narrative of “Xbox has no games” being spread.
There also needs to be a fair treatment of Xbox competitors positive and negative so that the successes and failures on that side can be used as a lesson learned.
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Excellent stuff.
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A forum is about opinion and information exchange. Moderation should only take place if there are insults, threats or misleading information (clear lies) or obvious drive-by posting, constant derailing and/or trolling, bringing the same (hidden) agenda in every thread (which I count as derailing but I wanted to list it for its own).
Meanwhile, let people have their point of views in a respectful way.
That is what makes this place better than what we currently see with other forums.
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People need to chill a bit. I get why they might feel disappointed, but that’s not a valid reason to attack people, etc.
Why can’t we just enjoy video games?
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Xbox is the best!
While I’m in for hard modding action (let me just take those gloves off…) I wish the community has some self reflection on what some threads have turned into. Mostly point towards the XGS thread and currently the E3 thread.
Routing is just an initial action. Essentially we are sweeping things under one of the carpets (threads) too. The threads themselves continue this behaviour after that.
Everyone in a forum thinks that they are usually on best behaviour. Self reflection is absent during a passionate conversation or an even more passionate doom posting.
If general forum behaviour is anything to go by, you will come acroas these decision points more often than not. There are small nudges that are required consistently in a large community. These nudges need to be followed up by other small nudges too. So, while putting a huge green banner was good, no action was specified if ppl ignored it. Which is the secoondary nudge that is required to put ppl in some order.
My two cents.
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Good stuff. Thanks.
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Thank you for this. Some of the changes made today are to try to encourage better behaviour. I foresee a time that giant megathreads can eventually fall to the wayside, but it won’t be any time soon.
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