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Comment on Xbox's new policy — say goodbye to unofficial accessories from November thanks to error '0x82d60002'

Because selling consumers cheap trash that they have to replace multiple times is worse for them than charging a higher price for a licensed product.

We’ve been over this across multiple generations. 3rd party controllers, 3rd party memory cards, they all sucked. Cheap? Yes. Very cheap, but if they’re half the price and you have to replace them 3 times, they stop being cheap.

Not that some official products are any better, the Elite controllers continue to be garbage and have spawned class action lawsuits.

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TwanHE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Nowadays there are many 3rd party options that are better than any official offerings. Especially considering no 1st party has made the switch to hall effect joysticks.

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- jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  And I’d imagine they’ll be willing to go through licensing.
  
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  - TwanHE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Nah they’ll most likely find a work around, can’t imagine the check being hard to clear unless they are planning to add hardware identifiers and make all old official controllers obsolete.
    
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- uid0gid0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I picked up this one about 6 mo ago and it’s been fantastic. My favorite controller by far. I’m waiting for them to make joycons and they’ll be an immediate buy.
  
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Grimy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I don’t need Microsoft telling me how to spend my money and they were definitely some good quality 3rd party stuff.

Honestly, I’ve seen a clear drop in quality since Microsoft killed or bought most of their competition for the official products. I didn’t use to replace my remotes (3rd party or official) but now I need to at least once a year with the official ones which are now also three times the price.

Microsoft doesn’t care about you, they actively hate you. You are money bag they suck on. No matter what the boot says, less competition is ALWAYS bad for the consumer.

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