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SweetTalia said:
Sounds to me more like a chinese government thing.
I doubt MS is to blame for this.


Why would the Chinese government not want you to sell your Xbox One? 



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Wait and see if Sony does it too, then you can see if it was MS or China's idea.  Ofc there is that chance both companies decided to do drm in China, but I'd say that's the least likely scenario. 



Can't blame, it's China, the land of piracy & reseller. =S



so... they are going to do what they tried on the rest of the world.... well, fresh market so fresh ideas.



Imaginedvl said:
ganoncrotch said:
spurgeonryan said:


Article from Gamersyndrome.com

Wait if you're going to need to activate all games to be able to play them that means the system will have to be connected to the internet pretty much all the time, or at least any time you're getting a new game. Unlucky anyone who doesn't have ready access to the net.

No... Not saying it works like that but here is one way to do it without the need to have a 24h online connection:

This would be costly for MS: One time activation code provided with the media which contain the data encrypted with a unique key... The activation code will contact MS servers to get this unique key (and flag it as redeemed). The user can then decrypt the data and install it (and activate it locally like today's Xbox One games). The key can even be bind to the account.

The other one is that there is one time activation to bind it to the console (you cannot play the game directly with the data on the disk) and then you do not need an internet connection. Again, like it is already working today with the "main Xbox One" console feature.

So no, the system does not have to be connected to the internet pretty much all the time


How do you imagine in your scenarios where the "code" is activated and marked as used in a store that they will be able to control it being registered on a system which is not connected to the net? How would the activated key know it was the first xbox1 it was being installed to if the first machine didn't flag the key as being used as it had done for offline PC games.

I mean you get an "activated" key in the store, you bring it home, install the game on your offline machine.... go to a neighbours house and install the game on his offline machine, how would there be any link between the 2 machines to not allow the code be used the 2nd time?



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Confirm: You Chank Lee or whatever the f his name is behind the M$ anti consumer servise I say all the Gamers to be one and Nuclear the China now. Also the China was behind the Dlc's, season passes, 10$ activate code for online.
And Because people down there have the same eyes with Sony guys, Sony working with them to damage M$
Yes thats its

 

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badgenome said:

The DReaM lives on!

Except this is not happening thanks to MS.



                
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AZWification said:
badgenome said:

The DReaM lives on!

Except this is not happening thanks to MS.


Not to sound rude, but do you have a source or som3thing explaining who brought it in and why? Not doubting you, just want to see more info.

From what I am hearing that games in China will be sold at a bargain price, my guess is MS want to stop exports. Something the Chinese government would not want to stop seeing as games would still be sold in China.



ABTR said:
Confirm: You Chank Lee or whatever the f his name is behind the M$ anti consumer servise I say all the Gamers to be one and Nuclear the China now. Also the China was behind the Dlc's, season passes, 10$ activate code for online.
And Because people down there have the same eyes with Sony guys, Sony working with them to damage M$
Yes thats its

Wow.... and I mean that.



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