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what is going on guys you were watching Jays two cents and I wish that I were coming to you under better circumstances but unfortunately what you were looking at right here is the face of a douchebag there's no other way to put it so this guy right here Adam orthe is creative director at Microsoft Studios as you may be aware the Xbox 720 or codename Durango is due to come out any time right around the corner and what are the fears that we have as gamers is that this new console is going to require an always-on internet connection so what does that mean that means if you want to play a single-player game by yourself you have to be online now if you live in the United States like I do this may not seem like a very big deal to you we're used to having unlimited data caps now if you live in other countries specifically Australia Canada and a few in Europe you may have to purchase data blocks it says you only have a certain amount of data allowed to you per month so if you want to play your favorite game by yourself you have to be online subject to their streaming ads and who knows what communications going back and forth eating up your data that you've paid for to play a game by yourself and if that's not bad enough I've already had several people who are subscribed to me message me a soldier saying that they brought their Xboxes with them on deployments and in the evening after they were done with a long hard day's work sometimes multiple day's work before they even get to take a shower and they want to relax with a game of madden or maybe some halo campaign or some Call of Duty campaign or something but they're no longer gonna be able to do that because the rumor mill is saying that the new console is gonna require always-on internet connection and this hasn't been confirmed yet so let's go ahead and back up a little bit here David orthe remember that picture I referred to earlier douchebag 101 this guy creative manager from Microsoft Studios took it upon himself to start tweeting with what some are saying was a friend or a colleague or maybe some sort of an industry colleague about the importance of always-on internet connection and I'm gonna go ahead and paraphrase a couple of the tweets here basically he was saying he fails to see the problem always on DRM everything we own now has always on DRM and it's the world we live in and to deal with it and even had the nerve to put up this picture of Obama saying deal with it not know about you but I can think of only one person worth linking if you're gonna be using the phrase deal with it let's just go ahead and dispel a couple of the myths right now your smartphone does not require an internet connection to work your toaster does not acquire an internet connection your computer does not require it your Xbox 360 doesn't require it your ps3 does not require it your iPad doesn't require it your Kindle your Android none of this stuff requires an internet connection to operate if you don't have an internet connection hooked up to these devices sure there are features that you cannot access but it is not required now let's go ahead and fast-forward a little bit here one of his twitter followers asked him well what if the internet goes out how am I supposed to play my single-player games you're like me some of the only times you ever play the single-player games is when your internet is out so you go into a little campaign a battlefield 3 Call of Duty Halo something anything just to kill the time because your internet is out well guess what if always-on internet as a requirement you're not gonna be able to do that you're not gonna be able to sign into your games and you're not gonna be able to play but Adam orth here seems to think that that's not a big deal he went on to be as arrogant as to say well if the electricity goes out does that mean I shouldn't buy a vacuum cleaner hey news flash here Adam or electricity is required to use a vacuum cleaner but the Internet is not required to play games that don't require the internet mmo's multiplayer plenty of single-player campaign games and a plenty of games don't even have an online mode but you're gonna require it so that statement that you said what they're just made you look like a complete douchebag someone said what if you live in a rural area you've had the opportunity to live in some of the greatest populations of the United States Los Angeles San Francisco currently he's in Seattle so you've had the luxury of dealing with great internet connection try living in someplace out in Kentucky or Tennessee or Virginia where you live in the boonies and you don't have access to high-speed Internet news flash here Adam worth 40% of the United States does not currently have access to high-speed Internet so when someone asked him about that he says well why would I want to live there really really so now you're gonna go as far as to say that you require an internet connection but if you live in a shitty area where the internet connection just is not that great tough too bad you can't play your console because you're not connected to the Internet now Microsoft came out today with a statement saying that Adam orth is not a PR spokesman for Microsoft that Microsoft's views and opinions are not in line with Adam or the any tweets that he says publicly are his in his own and do not represent that of Microsoft of course they declined to talk about anything with the new Xbox console and whether or not it would require an always-on internet connection and stated that they were no longer interested in discussing the matter any further now I've got a little word of the wise for Microsoft Adam orth has single-handedly taken the microsoft studios name and just drag it through the dirt as well as every other gamer on the face of this planet this whole situation is trying to be played down by Adam orth and this one of the other guys in these tweets saying that hey hey hey we're friends we were just trolling each other don't worry about it guess what if you're a high-ranking official a large corporation like Microsoft you are always under the microscope everything you say is gonna be taken as gospel and it's gonna be taken as words that represent the company you work for because we as gamers are not gonna tolerate this if you think that always-on internet connection is just that important to you and as we as consumers should just deal with it my name is Jason this is my xbox and this is my old rusty pokey thing