The Death Of Used Games - Why You Should Not Be Surprised (Or Scared) At What's Coming

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yo_john117 said:

disolitude said:

theprof00 said:

disolitude said:

Sure it does. Have you never activated Windows over the phone? Keeping a game in the console + phone activation for the install would be needed to make this happen. That is if they intend the gamers to allow to transfer user licenses to other consoles like they are saying that they will elaborate on at E3. If that doesn't happen, only phone activation would be needed...

And then the Ms sends an "all clear" to your One by magic? Maybe they chant some words over the line while you put your phone up to it.

Even better, I bet there is a dock. It only works with windows phone though. But that's not a big deal, right? Good business :D

Its pretty clear that you know even less than it seems...

Can you clarify how the over the phone activation works. I'm curious as to how they let the device know you activated it if it doesn't have an internet connection?

It works on the same principle as a cd key that comes with the piece of software would work. For windws 7 you get a pop up with like 8 groups of characters which you read out to an automated machine over the phone. Once it confirms the code tied to your piece of windows 7 and confirms that you have a valid license that isnt activated anywhere else it reads out a massive code back to you which you enter on your PC.

Something like this can easily work for game activation even if its a little unnecessary... im sure microsoft has a better solution in mind since this phone activation is over a decade old. All they need is you to send them the cd key for game that you bought and your console ID and then theyd give you the activation code that works for that console and game only.