| thranx said: Itunes doesn't let you buy from other stores on its devices. Who is to say the xbox one would not have been jail broken? What MS was doing was in direct response to consumers mass acception of these policies already from major companies, such as apple, google, and steam. With MS you would have been able to buy your games from a retail store also, not just through the online store, so there were still options. Honestly for what MS was trying to do they covered alot of bases, they still had discs for those who wanted to avoid downloads or not buy direct from ms. they kept the check in file small, and allowed for it to be done on cell phone hot spots. I think had they better communicated what they were doing it wouldn't have had the backlash it did. |
dont get me wrong, im not against digital downloads but the thing is MS wants to force this upon us, there is NO reason what so ever that we need to get rid of physical disks but MS wants to restrict that. also, even in a connected device there is no reason to have check ins every certain amount of time, i can disable my 3G on my phone and use it forever, with the xbox1 that wasnt the case, you didnt even own the hardware back then as you just had access to it for as long as microsoft allowed it so. there are so many features that can be implimented while being connected online and im all in for those features, but MS is trying to enforce unneeded restrictions to have more control. digital game sharing is a good feature and one that i do like, but microsoft is only willing to do it if they impose ridiculous restrictions on the user.
