Xbox Live (on Xbox One) Requiring Payment Info?

[Barkley]

CGI-Quality said:

Barkley said:

When it comes to free trials your payment details are a means of identification. If they didn't require them on your account people would just create new accounts over and over and have unlimited netflix/PS+ etc.

Nope, there are ways to prevent that without credit card info. For example, IP checks , and preventing attempts with the same email. But my view goes beyond that. If one gets slack for it, others should as well. Making this seem like a Microsoft-only problem is silly.

I'm not arguing your final sentence, but IP checks/email checks are definitely not sufficient. It's not difficult to just use a different email address and a proxy.

Hell my IP address changes everytime my router turns off, IP checks aren't sufficient.