Xbox banning third party controllers :mjpls:

[daze23]

Let me try to say it another way...

Wasn't there always competitive gaming? Couldn't they always have done this? They didn't care

playing Track & Field against someone using turbo

better have a pencil

 

[bnew]

I don’t really see any way this could not be anti-competitive. A perfectly functional peripheral was rendered non-functional at an arbitrary date with no benefit to consumers and with an obvious benefit to the party making the change in terms of increased licensing fee income.
Why is this sort of behaviour allowed?

Yet another move by MS contrary to the ‘see we arent the same company as we used to be’ vibe they’ve tried to cultivate.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38066983

 

[Hood Critic]

 

[KnickstapeCity]

DOJ should file an antitrust suit against them for this.

Fukk up, c00n

 

[Tenchi Ryu]

So we two days before the official ban and I still haven't seen a notification yet....still regularly using my brooks adapter.

I have a theory that because I'm using a XB1 wingman and not the new XB2 version, as well as having not updated the firmware in a long time the console still sees mine as a Xbox One controller and not a Series controller. And it seems like the third party devices acting as a series controller are the ones getting hit first.

But this is all so stupid because the thing people thought this was for isn't even getting effected. The Cronus XIM isn't even getting banned...so this seems to all be about money

 

[Hey_zeus]

The message to return the controller which 99% of the time is way out of return window is nasty work.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

The xbox coalition is still mute on this