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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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Shit, if you agree to the 24 hour check-in, you should be able to have access to everything they had originally planned, not just the family share, I agree 110%.
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Micro$oft isn't the type of company that advocates choice.
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Microsoft is a bunch of lying sacks of shit.
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Anyone know about this?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...ndealsemail-20 Edit: There are other options for other launch games as well. The BF4 or KZ bundle includes a year of PS+ at or less than just the console price of the XB1. M$ doesn't have a chance. |
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that watchdogs bundle looks like a go! I may preorder that one in a few months. Its looking like ps4 is the console of choice for the next gen.
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Really looking forward to this game. Dedicated servers have ways been and will always be better than peer-to-peer. The best experiences online have been on dedi servers IMO
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