I don’t necessarily disagree with what M$ is doing but these actions contribute greatly to driving customer to look elsewhere for comparable products. I also think their pricing scheme across all their products contributes greatly to the pirating problem.
I know I would never buy an MS game system now. ANY GAME SYSTEM ever!
I don’t play video games but they just made sure I would never consider buying one. Totally banning a system forever is really stupid. I don’t pirate games but any of this big brother crap is a turn off to me.