Microsoft Finally Clarifies Online and Used Games Policies, Xbox One Must Go Online Every 24 Hours

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teh_chem

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You're interpreting that wrong. The number you list, 56%, describes the contribution of North America internet users out of the total internet users of the Americas continents. As of 2011, 78.3% of the US population had access to internet, read through that site more carefully, you'll find this: http://www.internetworldstats.com/america.htm#us and this was their source: http://www.internetworldstats.com/am/us.htm
 

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Still, 78% of USA has broadband, that's around 312 million people
Number of Xbox 360s sold in USA hovers around 27 million
Connected people outpace Xbox users by more than 11 to 1, so moaning about some guy wanting to play his Xbox in the middle of the forest up in the Colorado Mountains is not going to get crowds of protesters in the street and likely any internet forum hype will be fueled by PR firms hired by Sony, Nintendo, Google, Apple, Samsung, Facebook, Steam - take your pick
 

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Agreed.

And quasi-related, I'd also ask how many of the people moaning about this are also loyal and avid Steam users--I'd bet a lot, if not almost all.
 

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I don't know what all the outrage is about. Honestly, if they're going to allow you to play the game without a disc, which is really convenient and to play games on multiple Xboxes and such, what are you expecting them to do? I mean, they're not just going to let you keep giving your game to dozens of people to all install and play.
BTW, these policies are less restrictive than PC games in general, in that you can actually give them to friends or sell them back. Yes, there are some restrictions, but again, given the features they're giving you access to, what do you expect them to do? When you buy a game on Steam, that's it. No trading. No re-selling. Done.
Yes, there's the check-in every 24 hours. We can quibble about how frequent this check-in should be, but it doesn't seem all that unreasonable. Yeah, if you don't have internet access, it sucks I guess, but this is how the world is moving. It's becoming increasingly difficult to participate in modern culture without an internet connection. And I think some of things they've talked about in terms of cloud rendering and such are interesting.
Also, they've highlighted the control the user will have over things like the Kinect and what data is collected and what gets sent. So chill out about the monitoring paranoia. Most laptops these days come with webcams--are you freaking out about that?
People need to chill out and think about what they're saying before they just spout off on the internet.
 

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Sounds like its easier to just swap consoles with a buddy every other month in order to effectively double your game purchasing / swapping power. I just bypassed M$FT DRM - 0 day hack - shout outs to raz0r
 

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every one here is pissed off about xboxe one, but you realize that always will be enough dumb people who will buy because its"cool" and other who say this things wont bother them.I am a pc gamer and always be, even i have own in past x360 and ps3, u cant even compare gaming pc with consoles.The only fun games on consoles are with friends(not online) and games like soccer racing and fighting games.If you realy want to enjoy a game , play it on a pc , is cheaper anyway..
 

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Um, excuse me? Metro is just as good on non-touchscreen PC's as on touchscreen PC's. It's nothing more than a full-screen start menu with additional functionality, something that people had been asking Microsoft forever for.

Now, the knocks on the XBox One (which if some things don't change, I will be passing over) are justified, especially about the DRM.
 
Although I have no doubt that MS won’t care, and myself not being an avid gamer this does not really affect me. There are many consoles on ships at sea that have no internet access navy ships, merchant ships, personal cabin cruisers etc. They will be taking away one of the primary methods of entertainment aboard ships. Granted these people can always go back to cards and books. But I am sure it will just move purchases away from consoles to more portable non internet required devices. You will no longer be able to have LAN parties on the ship for special events. This will have a large effect on crew morale.
 

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This console is completely worthless for any mobile application. I recently finished the wiring in a new race trailer(53' Nascar style, by Hi-Tech). The lounge is gorgeous. And for gaming/Blu-ray, I installed a PS3.
Money isn't an object, but no one is going to allow a console access to their air-card(broadband over cellular) just so the stupid thing will work. Same goes for all the coaches(bus style motor homes). Appears the PS3 is the pinnacle of consoles, it's all "down hill" from here...
 

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So much for taking the new XBox to overseas with you on a military deployment. I know this seems like a trivial thing, but in 8 years of military service I've never been to a deployed location, no mater how remote and hostile, that didn't have an XBox brought by somebody. For the most extreme example I think you even catch a glimpse of some soldiers playing Call of Duty on a 13" screen in the documentary Restrepo.
 

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I do enjoy my Xbox 360 and was planning to buy the new Xbox One. After reading all of this non-sense Microsoft is doing and complicating things to get more money, if all this is indeed true, I will definitely buy a PS4. I want to be able to buy a game (not all this licensing BS) and be able to play at my house, or take it to a friends house the next day, then at my house again a few hours later. Sorry Microsoft, you keep screwing up.
 
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