| TheSting said: It needed a firmware download to remove it. If it was easy to remove it would not have shipped with it. How much work was put into removing? |
Why do games ship with Day 1 patches to up the rez to 1080p? They let the games go gold knowing full well they could just have it run at 1080p, but they still release and patch it the moment you insert the disc into the console. Clearly they have the code to apply it to the game beforehand, since they announce months in advance that the patch is released the day the game releases (when, in those months, they could just make the game 1080p on the disc), but they just don't apply it.
So, to answer your question: I have no clue how much work they put into it, but it doesn't mean they put a whole lot into it just because DRM was still on the console when the console launched. We know that when any kind of hiccups happen in game development, the games get delayed months. Xbone's release date never waivered. So obviously this "crucial" element to the launch didn't take long to sort out
