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disolitude on 06 June 2013
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MoHasanie said:
disolitude said:

While I know this is not ideal and may be considered jumping through hoops... your smartpphone should have a "internet sharing" feature and this internet would be based off 4G and LTE towers which hopefully have reception where you live.

So essentially when the internet does go down for more than 24 hours...which really shouldn't happen more than once every 6 months to a year in 2013...you can enable wifi sharing on smartphone and connect your xbox to verify?

Again, not saying this should be standard procedure, just something people can do in case of internet outage emergency for a long peroid of time.

But it is so inconvenient to do that. Plus, I have a limited data plan so this isn't a great solution. And, just switching on the 4G on my phone eats up 10% of the battery in 15min. I just don't support a console that needs to be online once a day. The Xbox One will just have to be a console I will buy in 5 years to play Halo 5 and 6 but that's it.

I don't think you will have to do this for more than 2 minutes with your phone. Enable wifi sharing on phone, connect xbox to internet, verify, done. New 24 hour cycle begins. Shouldn't eat your data or waste battery...

I think its a viable solution for the times internet goes down for more than 24 hours when youre gaming

The reason why it needs to be online once per day is because Microsoft most likely doesn't want you to share your games with friends and family console and then go offline with that console and play the single player games like that while you trade them in or sell them. Steam on the PC doesn't have to deal with this as it doesn't have game resale or sharing...