Microsoft: Valve’s Steam Box Approach Validates Ours With Xbox One

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Zekkyou said:

ListerOfSmeg said:
I agree. Let's be honest. A good portion of the people that hated were never going to buy the xbox1 to begin with. Valve has pretty much the same DRM and notice how 24 hours later, the internet is not flooded with hate against them.
I actually prefer being able to switch between games without swapping out discs. Wii U is the first console I have owned in a long time because I can go all digital. I still love my PC. While I am typing this, I have youtube open, Rift running, Civ5 at the end of the turn and Rosetta stone waiting for me to come back. Now I know some of that has nothing to do with gaming but it helps me be able to multi task. Once you get use to not being tied down to disc or 1 program at a time, its hard to go back.

I will never own a MS console but I don't have any issues with their DRM policy and I welcome it.

Rest assured if Sony had announced it, the internets wouldn't have exploded. It would have been heralded as the next big thing in gaming. Instead people used it as a reason to hate and stopped the advancement on consoles in the process.

If Sony had announced it the internet would have exploded just as much P:

Steam can get away with the DRM because they are on a platform (PC) which people are unlikely to own without an internet connection. Steam is also not always on DRM, which is what people had the biggest problem with. I don't mind having to connect once when i log onto Steam and then going into offline mode, but having to have a connection at all times is bothersome. MS tried to rush the market rather than slowly transition over, which resulted in the backlash we have seen.

Also, you can go pretty much entirely digital on any console P: (except the Wii xD)

No they wouldnt have. Just look at PS+ as an example. Of course you and many other will try to justify it I am sure but it makes no difference. People hated on MS for and now love Sony for it.

I know many people with PCs with out internet. The only difference is they have no choice not to game because without internet you cannot use it for games on PC. How is that any different than what MS was going to do? Its not and its silly to try to say one is ok but the other is bad when they are pretty much the same service only MS was going to allow you to sell your games where Steam doesnt.

 Since when is once every 24 hours always on?