Why not?
May 30th, 2006 | Tags: entertainment
Panic honcho Steven Frank discusses why he bought an XBox 360. It’s a good piece, although I don’t see the disconnect Frank draws between being a Mac user and purchasing a Microsoft product. (The original XBox is a perfectly reasonable game console made great by Microsoft’s well-executed Live service; the current one is by all accounts much better. Neither has a “Start menu,” a “Clippy,” or any other noisome Microsoftisms.) However, his comments on the network experience are pretty good:
[XBox Live] has a “reputation” system that lets you moderate down obnoxious jerks, and moderate up fair, friendly competitors. It even divides the online experience into 4 neatly segregated skill sections, from “casual” to “complete assclown”.
I suspect that the improved feedback system and the support for cheap on-demand downloads of “casual” games will prove to be killer features for XBox owners in the coming years.