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Microsoft has done a complete U-Turn and scrapped both the DRM of used games and the need for internet connection every 24 hours.
They said the ONE will only need a internet connection for initial setup, then after that it will never NEED to be connected online again if you don't want to, just like the 360
Two U - Turns in a month, first the reappearance of the START button in Win8 and now this.
What next, a Xbox ONE price drop of US$100 ?
Don't worry, if they are true to form I'm sure Microsoft will still have few bad decisions up their sleeve that they have yet to inflict on their customers.
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I want to get off Mr XBone's Wild Ride.
I want to get off Mr XBone's Wild Ride.
I want to get off Mr XBone's Wild Ride.
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http://i.imgur.com/2EHcM45.jpg
Non jpegged original
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Now if they remove the NSA probing tool they might be able to compete on price... We'll see...
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Due to the change they've also removed the online library sharing feature with 10 friends, which was arguably the hidden gem of the console, buttered between a sandwich of consumer rage and BS. Problem now is that there's nothing to distinguish this console against the PS4, apart from the remaining negatives:
No indie self publishing
Kinect required
Kinect itself
Kinectimals
Kinect 4
Kinect the Dots
And Sports Sports TV TV TV TV
I was never going to buy an Xbox One. Even if I didn't like MS's original concept as a consumer, I would have liked it to have gone through. Not because I don't like the company or anything, but I would have been interested on how the industry changed or progressed around it.
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I read the BBC news science report early this morning my time, and I'm sure they said that the Xbox ONE's online libary sharing was still intact.
Something was mentioned that you could do a "Virtual trade in " of downloaded games with a newly implemented Xbox system
Where by you lose use of the ones you have already downloaded and select to trade in, and Microsoft gives you a partial credit towards the purchase of another downloadable game.
Since Xbox points is being scrapped I suppose it's the next best thing, but then again I know very little about Xbox stuff via hands on experience.
I think Xbox fans have seen that Microsoft is prepared to shaft them if allowed, and that has become distasteful enough for some to change to a PS4 regardless of the recent U-Turn
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The library sharing can't be intact anymore now that the update makes discs required to be in the tray to play. See this part of their official statement:
"These changes will impact some of the scenarios we previously announced for Xbox One. The sharing of games will work as it does today, you will simply share the disc. Downloaded titles cannot be shared or resold. Also, similar to today, playing disc based games will require that the disc be in the tray."
Downloaded titles can't be shared now either. I imagine the family sharing thing is still intact, but that's something separate bound to the console, or perhaps consoles on a LAN.
The virtual trade in feature sounds good if true. Its a better incentive to buy digitally or new copies than DRM was. Also it's a much smoother and less intrusive strategy than DRM, to integrate users and grant developers more profits.
But I've turned into quite a niche gamer these days. Fire Emblem and Ni No Kuni have been my favourites so far this year. Can't stand the Safe AAA "story over gameplay" models like Bioshock Infinite and Tomb Raider. Way too many button prompts and QTE's in those types, never results in any good sense of depth. I find it hard to be satisfied playing indie games either. I always prefer physical copies too. Hell I looked everywhere for the Disc based WOHD Fury before I actually gave up and downloaded it.
Gaikai and The digital trade in idea would be good for me to try games cheap that I'm unsure about keeping, but that's about it.
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Yeah the family plan is gone, which is probably the biggest lost in this whole thing. However unless I'm wrong in interpreting how it works (and let's face it, that's entirely possible given MS hasn't done anything to inform the public about it), it seemed very similar to what was possible on PS3 at one point with the five PS3 account activation limit. You know, that thing that got reduced to two activations per account because people abused it. I don't see how that ten account limit would have worked and survived publisher pressure, or even pressure from MS itself.
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Is MS even trying any more?
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There was virtually no reason why they needed to take out that family sharing feature. They just did it purely out of spite since they didn't want to accept the fact that they were ignorant and arrogant in the way they were trying to show off their console, which resulted in fans' and gamers' outrage.
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the rumors on the interwebs are saying M$ will do a new "reveal" of the xbox1 on Gamescom over here in cologne. with all the u-turns they announced recently, it'll be not the same console they revealed at E3. my question: when i have xbox live gold for the 360 already, do i have to purchase another gold membership for the 1 or is like PS+, one subscription for all systems?
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I don't recall reading anything official on this topic yet, but it wouldn't make much sense to opt for different subscriptions : it would be more complicated for them and for us, more confusing for us and for their customer support, and at best they could win a few extra bucks at the cost of making lots of players angry. With that said, they made so many mistakes since the first day they announced the xbox one that I'm not sure whether they'll do it or not...