JoeTheBro said:
Adinnieken said:
It may have appeared he was being glib with a potential customer, but instead he was being sarcastic with a writer with BioWare that I'm sure he has a work relationship with. The writer even has acknowledged that what was said between two people (i.e. a conversation) was taken out of context and not everything said was actually included in the original article.
DRM = Digital Rights Management. DRM includes licensing. Currently, any software purchased through Xbox LIVE includes two licenses. A device license and a user license. If content is downloaded to a console, it is licensed to that console, which allows any user on that device (at the time it was licensed) to play the game. The user license allows that user to use the content regardless of the device, so long as they're connected to Xbox LIVE. So if the device license and the user license do not match up, the user must be connected to Xbox LIVE.
If Microsoft was to implement DRM from a retail disc standpoint, it could still generate a DRM license for the device and user all off-line, then confirm that license online.
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He also tweeted to an average joe @theonlyalexw
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And thus the nature and problem with stating an opinion as a representative of a company.
Regardless, he's not stating that the Xbox 8 will feature always on/always connected functionality. He's asking why people have such a big problem with it.
Having said that, he may not know the plans of the Xbox division. They're not even in the same building. He may only truly be able to speak about what Microsoft Games Studio is doing or for that matter what he is working on. Even then he'd be covered under NDA, so he wouldn't be able to.
