Microsoft to Pull Complete Reversal on Xbox One DRM Policies..

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thismeintiel said:

enditall727 said:

iceland said:
Xbox can never win all I see now is "If they can take it out they can put it back in!!!" and "too little too late". I have a feeling most of these people were never interested to begin with.

This happened with PlayStation

 

When Sony said PS4 had no restrictions, people were still claiming that PS4 had those restrictions and that Sony was lieing lol

It is a little worrying that the DRM is obviously built into the system, so much so that the Xbox One requires a FW update to actually override the DRM.  I guess one could say that all MS has to do is override the FW update to have all their DRM policies back in place.  I doubt they would do that, though, as that would be an even bigger step towards suicide.

MS won't do that. 

While there will always be that core group for any product that's in the company's pocket, there are plenty of consumers who would sell their XB1 and buy a PS4 regardless of the cost involved in switching platforms.

Plus, there'd be a huge rush as people tried to sell their used games while they were still worth anything. And if MS tried to be clever and announce the change in policy after it went into effect to prevent the massive glut of used XB1 games (which would put a huge dent in new game sales of any current games in circulation), there would probably be a class action lawsuit on top of all the consumers dumping their Microsoft products. 

It's one thing for a company to flip policy in response to consumer outrage. It's another thing altogether to then flop after consumers have bought your product and say "psyche!"