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Machiavellian on 21 March 2013
| Troll_Whisperer said: Well, this doesn't tell us that a connection will be required to play, nor that they will block used games. Though I don't see a reason to have mandatory installs unless they are indeed trying to block used games, why would they do that otherwise? I personally don't think they'll require you to be connected to play. I think they want to have a box that does everything immediately and without waiting, much like the PS4 really. |
I personally do not see why the game needs to be install to block used game sells? This can easily be done by locking the game to your XBL account. It would be no different then how steam or blizzard ties a game to your user profile. A full install of the game is not needed for DRM. It could be that making the game only run from the HDD makes it easy for optimization for the APIs. Optical disk stream data at inconsistent speed. Keeping everything standard improves system support and reduces overhead.
