Xbox Ambassador Program: How not to Promote Online Gaming - MS has joined the EXCLUSIVITY crowd

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I got this in my email awhile back after I was selected to join the ambassador program. "Awesome, free swag! I dig this shit, no problem!" I thought. Then I saw the pledges, programs, and adherence I must stick to and said "How the fuck do I get out of this chickenshit outfit?!?!?!"

Here is the latest "pledge" all ambassador's have to take. I will not be signing this shit pile:

Welcome to Season 17!
Xbox Ambassadors,
We are excited to bring in the new year, and the new decade, with new features and announcements for this incredible community. We’re always seeking to provide you with new experiences that will empower you to make the greatest positive impact on the gaming industry.
One of the most exciting ways we are doing this in Season 17 is through the introduction of the Xbox Ambassadors Pledge.
All existing Xbox Ambassadors and those who wish to join, will be prompted to sign the Pledge to participate in the program.
Signing the Pledge represents your willingness to be a community steward through inclusive action that creates welcoming spaces everyone can enjoy. We are making this a requirement to becoming an Xbox Ambassador to ensure that title continues to represent the mission to make gaming fun for everyone.

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By signing this I can be booted, banned, and kicked off the platform for calling someone a shit weasel faggot who sucks dick from the back out of his mom's douchecanoe cunt. I can't block screeching children from joining my killfest games who call me names found on Russian TikTok videos. I must support and bring in people of all types and let them play with me and be polite and nice when all I want to do is murder my way through things cause I fucking can.

The list of Ambassador's when first starting was pretty small, but as soon as they started including all this progressive SJW shit over the last few years the program has been churning through people like an Amish dairy country's butter mill. The rewards are you being able to pick a chairity to donate money to that MS let's you pick from. Fuck you, give me free shit if I gotta slog through content with dickweasel mongoloids. It'd be like being a moderator on Kiwi Farms run by Troons.

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Don't be me, if you are ever asked to join this program say "HELL NO!" and run far away from it.
 
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Okay so

According to this, Xbox ambassador rewards are just cosmetics for your account, and occasionally you can enter a sweepstakes for some stuff. But I guess the kind of prizes you can win are so bad, that the quote they included was from someone excited about winning a remote control:

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Which is $15 at Gamestop right now

Why would I want to join this program? Seriously, why?
 
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??? said:
How can this be used (or rather, abused) for griefing?
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Fucking EASY:

1. You find out if the person you want to grief is on the Ambassador program. Easy enough because their gamertag/badge has a unique flair around it.
2. Report them to the heads of their abassador program (you can find them online) for not being inclusive (you self identify as an asian non-binary muslim), they called you names (anything can be used here), or making you feel triggered/unsafe. Look on a tumblr blog or twitter post, use those words.
3. Person will be kicked off XBL and probably banned.
4. PROFIT

That's it.
 
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You know what will help the Ambassador Program? Offer an original and excellent AAA exclusive game that isn't a Halo or Gears of War sequel.

That is what is needed for Xbox to attract players than a program that can ban people from their system and move to another.
 
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I'm less surprised that Microsoft has faggy rules tacked onto every element of their shithouse moderation service and more surprised that there's any services left to moderate to begin with. What games do you even play as part of this program? All I can think of is Gears 5 and the MCC, and I'm under the impression that the former died by the end of it's first month and the latter spent the better part of five years being almost unplayably broken.
 
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??? said:
@Reverend I meant something more like can you abuse people and ban randos if you are an ambassador?
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No, that's only for the XBLPET (Xbox Live Enforcement Team). Ambassadors cannot ban people. Actually, if you claim that you can ban people because you're an ambassador, YOU'LL get banned from XBL.

I've heard since Xbox One implemented the Reputation system, it has been ripe with abuse because of players blocking others based on skill. Basically, how it worked was that the more reports you would get, your rep goes down. Subsequently, you would only be able to match with players with the same rep. TL:DR; throttled, limited matchmaking.

I remember during the heyday of XBL, you would get into a CoD or Halo match and anything goes. MW2 being a great example of such behavior. Nowadays, you could get banned for even arguing with somebody or responding to an angry message apparently. Public voice chat is a rarity compared to those days.

Take that what you will. @Reverend at least we know you have an Xbox One.
 
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The Last Stand said:
Take that what you will. @Reverend at least we know you have an Xbox One.
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It's cheaper than buying a PC every 2-3 years, getting a video card, fucking with windows shit drivers, DRM that will break the game or make it run like shit because OMGPYRATS, then upgrading AGAIN when some new game that MAY end up working comes along.

Or I just turn on the Xboxen and play my game.

Ease of Access trumps E-peen battles with the terraflops of gigaram on the NewShineyCPU. My PC is for work purposes that pays for the bills so I can have Pretty Things on my 4K panel blowing up all over the place.

There came a tipping point right as the Xbox One hit that I abandoned all pretenses and joined the masses and embraced the console.
 
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Reverend said:
It's cheaper than buying a PC every 2-3 years, getting a video card, fucking with windows shit drivers, DRM that will break the game or make it run like shit because OMGPYRATS, then upgrading AGAIN when some new game that MAY end up working comes along.

Or I just turn on the Xboxen and play my game.

Ease of Access trumps E-peen battles with the terraflops of gigaram on the NewShineyCPU. My PC is for work purposes that pays for the bills so I can have Pretty Things on my 4K panel blowing up all over the place.

There came a tipping point right as the Xbox One hit that I abandoned all pretenses and joined the masses and embraced the console.
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I don't mind if you have one or not. I was pointing out that Xbox Ones are less popular than PS4s or PC.
 
Reverend said:
It's cheaper than buying a PC every 2-3 years, getting a video card, fucking with windows shit drivers, DRM that will break the game or make it run like shit because OMGPYRATS, then upgrading AGAIN when some new game that MAY end up working comes along.

Or I just turn on the Xboxen and play my game.
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eh, it's not that more expensive in the long run, but it can be a hassle, especially if you want to play the newest AAA shit at release. but during a console generation there's zero point to upgrade if stuff already runs to your liking.
why not a ps4 tho?
 
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It's cheaper than buying a PC every 2-3 years, getting a video card, fucking with windows shit drivers, DRM that will break the game or make it run like shit because OMGPYRATS, then upgrading AGAIN when some new game that MAY end up working comes along.

Or I just turn on the Xboxen and play my game.

Ease of Access trumps E-peen battles with the terraflops of gigaram on the NewShineyCPU. My PC is for work purposes that pays for the bills so I can have Pretty Things on my 4K panel blowing up all over the place.

There came a tipping point right as the Xbox One hit that I abandoned all pretenses and joined the masses and embraced the console.
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PC gaming can be a pain in the ass sometimes but the quality difference can't be overstated, once you see the difference of what multiplat games look like on PC versus console there's simply no going back, it's worth dealing with the additional hassles (which I think you're over blowing anyway)

And even if the graphical difference isn't huge for every game, the framerate is, being able to play games at twice the framerate alone is a night and day difference.

For me I honestly don't even know why one would bother with gaming as a hobby if you're not willing to go the extra mile to get the best experience.

Cost can be prohibitive and I can sympathize with that, but if you think it's simply not worth the hassle, which isn't that big of a hassle and is well worth it, I think you need to get over yourself.
 
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Dom Cruise said:
it's worth dealing with the additional hassles (which I think you're over blowing anyway)
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worst consoles have to deal with is downloading a fuckhueg day1 patch, pc you have to deal with denuvo, timed unlocks, multiple accounts, hoping they put some effort into the port (no sony/microsoft to chew them out), good chance of cheaters online and general compatibility issues where a publisher went full retard. my recent favorite is ubisoft with starlink. not only do you have to run it as full admin (elevated doesn't work, it outright doesn't start), you also have to disable virtualizion in the bios - which the game never tells you if you start it normally via uplay, you have to start it manually from the folder to get the error message.

I prefer pc too, but I can understand if someone doesn't want to deal with that horseshit.
 
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