PR issues with incoming Microsoft console, or we're just not rich/urban enough for it

[Aldurin]

So everyone is aware that Microsoft is working on their counter for the PS4, since after releasing Windows 8 it's clear they need to find something that they're good at. Apparently one of their directors (who somehow isn't in the Retarded Developer Quarantines of EA or Gearbox) was mistakenly allowed to talk about a potential feature of it on twitter.

The NeoGAF thread, which contains a lot of documentation in the OP.

Also the Kotaku article in case you get off on that.

Short version, Adam "Sweet Billy" Orth, Microsoft's Creative Director, started arguing in favor of always-online devices on Twitter. This resulted in very good counter-arguments (not everyone is rich with a good location, internet provider and modem) cropping up, he ends up responding in a manner that conveys "stop being a poor dick and stop living in the past", with his analogies showing that he considers electricity and optimal internet access to be equally accessible commodities. This obviously pisses off everyone as everyone either has sub-par internet or knows someone that does. It gets especially interesting when he argues with Manveer, a Bioware Dev. Another Microsoft dev hints that the new console will have this always-on feature.

Here's the fun part, his Dick Resume comes up, affirming the fact that he's an unrelenting dick with both personal posts and former associates accounts of his behavior. The Chief of Staff at Microsoft says "I don't actually know who he is." despite everyone already knowing that Orth is in an executive position in Microsoft at this point. Eventually an official statement comes out from Microsoft saying that Orth isn't a spokesperson and thus his opinions do not represent the company (he is in management so that's not entirely true), but at this point the damage is already done.

Now this should be taken with some salt, as we don't know for sure that the new console will have always-on restrictions (with any hope this shitstorm actually killed that design concept), but there is a pretty large trail of wreckage left behind by Microsoft with a few other sources lying around for good measure.

Regardless of whether it's actually as it seems, I'm far less confident in Microsoft than I was before, and I don't have any real hopes for their new console breaking past mediocre unless they find something to really pull through (the Halo franchise has run out of steam so they'll need to actually work for allure now).

So how do you guys feel about Microsoft allowing elitist dicks to have that much influence on their products that are supposed to be accessible for everyone? Placing your preorder for the Microsoft Xbox Durango 720p Xtreme already? Sacrificing your Windows 7 disc to eldritch horrors so that you get some value back out of it as you completely abandon Microsoft? Just want to keep watching Spoonicorn troll Xbox Live Support's twitter team, ignoring this disaster for now (I can't blame you)?