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Naum on 13 September 2013

And nothing prevents them from doing a 180 again after a few years...



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daredevil.shark on 13 September 2013
DonFerrari said:
daredevil.shark said:

Good move by microsoft. They are informing customers about their policy change. But still it seems a desperate approach to me. Is pre order number than low in NA? Here is the pic.

 

Source: http://pixelenemy.com/microsoft-reminding-gamers-that-theyve-done-a-180-on-drm-for-the-xbox-one-sends-newsletter/

 


But when sony poke them they are unprofessionals?


Sony did the poking in right and smart way. Why are you mentioning sony's actions here? Its a bit strange.



daredevil.shark on 13 September 2013
Naum said:
And nothing prevents them from doing a 180 again after a few years...


This will happen. After they have a good install base for Xbox One they will slowly start to implement DRM again. They will launch full scale DRM if the "small" DRM gets successful



Figgycal on 13 September 2013
daredevil.shark said:
Naum said:
And nothing prevents them from doing a 180 again after a few years...


This will happen. After they have a good install base for Xbox One they will slowly start to implement DRM again. They will launch full scale DRM if the "lighter" DRM gets successful

Honestly, all they would need to do is introduce a new Digital only version of the Xbox One (with no disk-tray) and they can have all the DRM they want.



Somini on 13 September 2013

People, just ignore DJEVOLVE. It's appearent that he's in ultra defence mode trying to reply to every post he doesn't like, effectively derailing the thread in the process.

Moving onto the topic at hand, off course Microsoft will not mention the draconic plans they first published, seen as how they backfired, but informed gamers will still see through this fake PR move. This is a corporation that deserves to fail and go into the oil business or something where these kind of tactics are more common.

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daredevil.shark on 13 September 2013
Figgycal said:
daredevil.shark said:
Naum said:
And nothing prevents them from doing a 180 again after a few years...


This will happen. After they have a good install base for Xbox One they will slowly start to implement DRM again. They will launch full scale DRM if the "lighter" DRM gets successful

Honestly, all they would need to do is introduce a new Digital only version of the Xbox One (with no disk-tray) and they can have all the DRM they want.


This is every console makers and game developers ultimate dream. But it wont be successful. It wont be successful unless people accepts digital only games.

 

Plus internet speed isnt good enough all around the world. In near future we will be getting 50-80+ gb games. For digital only they have two options. They are.
a) Download the whole game.
b) Stream the whole game.

That future is a long way to go. Unless internet speed dramatically increases all over the world or at least in US, Europe and some parts of Asia digital only consoles wont get any momentum.



drewz19 on 13 September 2013

My favorite part, "Your Schedule: ....with XBox One, you can suspend and resume gameplay instantly...."

Seriously? Isn't that the "Pause/Start" button on any controller or game?

Come I dont care if this was XB or PS, thats really one of their top arguments for getting an XB One?

Im sure Nintendo didn't even make that point back on the NES.



Nsanity on 13 September 2013
daredevil.shark said:
Naum said:
And nothing prevents them from doing a 180 again after a few years...


This will happen. After they have a good install base for Xbox One they will slowly start to implement DRM again. They will launch full scale DRM if the "small" DRM gets successful

Are you from the future?



daredevil.shark on 13 September 2013
Nsanity said:
daredevil.shark said:
Naum said:
And nothing prevents them from doing a 180 again after a few years...


This will happen. After they have a good install base for Xbox One they will slowly start to implement DRM again. They will launch full scale DRM if the "small" DRM gets successful

Are you from the future?

I wish I were.



Figgycal on 13 September 2013
daredevil.shark said:
Figgycal said:
daredevil.shark said:
Naum said:
And nothing prevents them from doing a 180 again after a few years...


This will happen. After they have a good install base for Xbox One they will slowly start to implement DRM again. They will launch full scale DRM if the "lighter" DRM gets successful

Honestly, all they would need to do is introduce a new Digital only version of the Xbox One (with no disk-tray) and they can have all the DRM they want.


This is every console makers and game developers ultimate dream. But it wont be successful. It wont be successful unless people accepts digital only games.

 

Plus internet speed isnt good enough all around the world. In near future we will be getting 50-80+ gb games. For digital only they have two options. They are.
a) Download the whole game.
b) Stream the whole game.

That future is a long way to go. Unless internet speed dramatically increases all over the world or at least in US, Europe and some parts of Asia digital only consoles wont get any momentum.

I'm pretty sure that's what Microsoft was going for with the Xbox One, or at least a half-assed attempt at it with ridiculous limitations.