| ratchet426 said: Isn't this the same guy who verbally chastised a video game journalist in an interview after E3 that DRM was built into the X1 from its inception and MS couldn't simply "flip a switch" and remove it...then a week later MS indeed 'flipped the switch' and removed it? Why should we believe anything that comes out of this MS spin doctor's mouth? |
Well to be honest MS didn't flip a switch and remove the DRM, they dropped the whole online part of the X1 and turned it into a 360. There was absolutely nothing incorrect about Larry statement because you cannot just go in and take out code that’s a part of the console especially when its so integrated that removing it would be a colossal effort. Any such changes can produce endless amounts of bugs and code changes and as a result, MS had to drop the whole thing. Its easier and smarter on a code point to start from the beginning them to try to remove something that is probably touching every part of the software.
Since I work as a developer on projects that include customers what’s, there have been times when a customer realize something was important or they did not like a feature they ask for and wanted it removed that it caused the project to be restarted almost from scratch. Without having a coding background people really do not know how even small changes can sometimes create huge amount of reworking of code.
