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Report: Microsoft to remove DRM/Always Online for the Xbox1
This could be the biggest backtrack in gaming history: Microsoft will reverse course on their DRM policies for Xbox One, dropping their Internet requirements and all restrictions on used games, according to the websites WhatHiFi and GiantBomb.
According to both reports, the announcement will be made today. Citing multiple sources, GiantBomb says Microsoft has decided to remove a laundry list of Xbox One restrictions that customers considered negative: No more always online requirement The console no longer has to check in every 24 hours All game discs will work on Xbox One as they do on Xbox 360 Authentication is no longer necessary An Internet connection is only required when initially setting up the console All downloaded games will function the same when online or offline No additional restrictions on trading games or loaning discs Region locks have been dropped Since they revealed the Xbox One in May, Microsoft has faced non-stop criticism for announced policies that could drastically change the way we play games in the future. The Xbox One, they said, would require players to connect to the Internet once every 24 hours in order to keep the box playing games. You would have to activate each game by registering it on the web before playing. The console would also restrict the way that game discs are traded, borrowed, and shared, limiting the number of people who could own and play each game, and restricting trade-ins on a publisher-by-publisher basis. Microsoft has justified these policies by saying that these moves are consistent with a shift to digital seen on Steam, iTunes and other digital platforms. By reversing on those policies, Microsoft calls a lot of things into question: what will become of the Xbox One's family sharing plan? Will publishers find other ways to block used games? And what of all the rhetoric of how "the bits"—the data on each game disc, rather than the discs themselves—are the future? We've reached out to Microsoft for comment but have not heard back yet. http://kotaku.com/microsoft-is-remov...ium=Socialflow |
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06-21-2013, 06:06 AM | #61 |
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I think the options were explained well, then the consumers explained what they wanted.
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Now there are rumors floating around that the Kinect will not be required for the Xbone anymore but they aren't planning on lowering the price.
http://www.examiner.com/article/rumo...one-price-drop
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06-21-2013, 02:53 PM | #64 |
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Nothing they could do would make me buy their system before the PS4 at this point.
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No way I'm getting xsnatch one. Bullshit. **** Microsoft ima spend about $700 on ps4 and games and controller. Can't wait
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06-21-2013, 08:17 PM | #67 |
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Are you always this emotional about everything?
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06-21-2013, 08:50 PM | #68 | |
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Not emotional. Just not gona buy their bullshit. How is that emotional?
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06-21-2013, 09:17 PM | #69 |
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I wasn't talking about your decision, only the expression of it.
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06-21-2013, 10:43 PM | #70 |
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Sunset Overdrive looks pretty Meh, and you'd be saying the same if it were a PS4 exclusive. Playstation exclusives rock. Naughty Dog, 'nuf said.
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ya I'm pretty excited. Really wish I had a PS3 right now, Last of Us just looks like the game I want to play
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I guess the Sony Store had a price mistake earlier today on the other anticipated title Two Souls. It was up there for $35 for a short time. Wish I had seen it.
My Last of Us disk arrives on Tuesday. Can't. Friggin. Wait.
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06-21-2013, 11:54 PM | #73 |
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I'm sure it will be available to download on the PS4 once they get their cloud streaming service worked out.
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I'm curious if they will find a way for people that already own those ps3 games to forgo having to pay for it again on PS4. Not holding my breath but it sure would be nice.
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