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I really dislike this UI concept. It is completely non-discoverable and when paired with "pull to refresh" it is hard to guess what the pull down gesture do.

Drawer is a better concept IMHO - it informs the user that there are some actions and the user can check them out to see what they do.

Or maybe I am wrong and people will love to pull down every list just to discover what is hidden there.

As I've already said a couple of times, the dependency on the cloud is troublesome for lots of reasons. I don’t want to “wait for authentication” every time I go play offline single player games, I just want to play the game! Why should I care if it authenticated.

And Microsoft could have made the whole program opt-in. Then some would have their digital future, and I wouldn't. In that case everyone wins.

DRM always presents a problem for a paying user. When you pirate games, you have 0 problems and excellent, if not better, experience than regular, paying users.

I agree, but giving people something and later taking their money when they are hooked is a proven strategy.

They could divide users in two camps - those who want the old system and those who want the new system. If buying used games is good for you (e.g. you are living in country with less income than average American), don't enable the feature. If you like digital sharing, enable it.

IMHO, their proposed system is OK, but it should be opt-in, not opt-out. I mean to buy a lot of games and I have zero interest in playing online. Why should I care about that anyway? 24-hour check is...let's be honest and just say it is limiting.

Finally! Let's hope that there is no firmware or update that will reverse this policy. The only issue that now remains is that the console is limited to 21 countries.

This region-lock limitation prevents me from giving money to Microsoft, which is something they should want actually, and from developing for the console.

Sorry to nitpick, but it's WP8 as in Windows Phone 8.

Well, Steam is actually more convenient than torrenting. You don't have to search for the correct torrent, test it, trust it, and so on.

Find a game, pay it, download it, play it.

I think that convenience wins over pirating. Just recently I bought Far Cry 3 after finishing the pirated version. What I discovered is that having DRM in the normal, paid version is completely annoying.

I would gladly pay for any service which offers one-click media consumption regardless if it was about games, movies, music, comics or some other.

Why would I have to calculate the future sale of any game I buy into the price I pay for the game? I pay for the games so that the developers can continue making games I like for me.

Do you want to play more games from the creators of the games you've played and liked?

I too have a large collection of games that I will probably never play or finish. Doesn't matter though.

This is just pure gold. When I was younger, I always pirated stuff because I didn't have the money nor the means. But today, my Steam collection is worth over a 1000 dollars and I buy more games I could play.

It hurts me when people my age (27) don't consider buying stuff they like. I mean, you are paying the creators of the stuff you like so that they can create more of it.

No one wants to work for free, why should we expect others to do it? Just because there is zero cost to digitally copy something doesn't mean that it was made with zero cost.

Agree, I don't want to give my personal info to any site nor I wish to remember yet another un/pw combination.

It works now. Just one more suggestion: trim the string :)

I entered 1244B0 in the search box and got 0 results. But I've got 5 pages: from 0 to 4 (I was on 0). When I clicked on any other page number, I was greeted with a message: "We're sorry, but something went wrong." The URL I got is http://pltts.me/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&hex=1244B0

This article is a little bit one sided. So what if most side projects never succeed? You can always learn a lot by attempting to do a large scale project yourself. Most real-life projects are large scale legacy projects that you are simply thrown into. Most likely you don't even care about them nor you can make any sort of decisions.

By doing side projects you are being creative. You learn new stuff. You actually care about your project. You also have to do everything yourself, including planning. Where else would you get such experience?

And the net result is that you learn new stuff in your side projects, something your employer gets for free. Your passion will pay off, eventually. It is nearsighted to assume that just because you "waste" time on side projects you are hurting you employer.

You hurt them more by simply not caring enough about the technology nor the project.

This is a battle they (advertisers) simply can't win. If they increase the number of ads for Firefox users, Firefox installation might suggest ad-blocking software to users. If we have a "browser choice screen" as a punishment for Microsofts abuse of monopoly, who can deny adding the same "choice" screen for ad-blocking software to a major browser?

After all, public should be educated about ads.