| theshonen8899 said: Why XBOne is "Bad DRM" XBOne is interesting because it is an combination of the worst DRM PC has ever seen put to full throttle. Whether it's SecuROM's five game activation, or UPlay/Blizzard's single-player online check requirement, XBOne represents the very apex of bad DRM. Unlike SecuROM, you can only activate your game on your account, and then send it to another account once. That account will be tied to the game for eternity. SecuROM at least allows you to have five machines own the game and the ability to activate/deactivate machines. XBOne allows you to have one machine to own the game and the ability to send it once. Similarly, UPlay, Blizzard, and XBOne force you to connect online even though you are playing a single-player game. XBOne actually one ups this by forcing you to connect online every 24 hours even if you aren't playing a game at all. This is the epitome of bad DRM, DRM that is thoroughly abusive to consumers while providing the same inconvenience of physical games. Keep in mind that with the XBOne, you are still lugging your game collection through airport security and paying for online services you get for free on other platforms. |
This doesn't make any sense to me. The author is arguing that XBOX One's DRM is worse than secuROM because that one allows you to install games to 5 different machines. Well since Xbox One's DRM is tied to your account instead of the actual device you can log onto any Xbox One to play your games, you aren't limited to just 5 different specific Xbox One's so how it that worse?
Also as far as allowing you to send your game only once how does that work on Steam for example? Can send a game you buy on Steam to as many of your friends as you want? Does Steam even allow you to sell your Steam games? Also Xbox One does not force you connect online to play single-player games only to connect once every 24 hours to verify the licenses.
As for lugging your game collection I was under the impression that you could download your games on whatever Xbox One you log your account into. Am I mistaken? He also takes a dig at Xbox Live Gold but that doesn't have anything to do with the whole Xbox One DRM argument as even if Xbox Live Gold was free it wouldn't change the argument at all.
