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blublibla on 06 May 2013

This is a very strange and dangerous message full of deceiving formula...



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riderz13371 on 06 May 2013

Inb4 the people who didn't believe the "always online" rumor will start to believe this rumor.

So good =P.

May 21st people!



Cyrus_ATX on 06 May 2013
Goatseye said:
Cyrus_ATX said:

Microsoft: Next Xbox will work even when your Internet doesn’t

 

Scenarios that users expect to work offline will, in fact, work offline.

Should single-player games, Blu-ray playback, and live TV viewing be possible on a gaming console with no Internet connection? Most gamers would say "yes," but they have been worried that Microsoft feels differently; the next generation Xbox has been consistently rumored to require a permanent network connection.

It won't.

According to an internal Microsoft e-mail sent to all full-time employees working on the next Xbox, "Durango [the codename for the next Xbox] is designed to deliver the future of entertainment while engineered to be tolerant of today's Internet." It continues, "There are a number of scenarios that our users expect to work without an Internet connection, and those should 'just work' regardless of their current connection status. Those include, but are not limited to: playing a Blu-ray disc, watching live TV, and yes playing a single player game."

How far this offline support will extend still isn't clear. It could take the form of a fully offline mode akin to that on the Xbox 360 (insert optical disc, install game, play, all without an Internet connection) or it could be more like Steam (install and activate online but enable subsequent offline play once this has been done).

While one could argue that "installing a game" is one of the "scenarios" that gamers "expect to work" when offline, a more Steam-like approach would be consistent with rumors that the next Xbox will use its Internet connection to block installation of secondhand games.

Still, though the next Xbox won't make everybody happy, it looks like fears that the console will be useless when your broadband goes down have been overblown.

 

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/05/microsoft-next-xbox-will-work-even-when-your-internet-doesnt/

What have you done?

What are the flamebaiters gonna use to put down the console and brand that they don't like?

lol!!!

But remember information regarding durango for some people is like this:

Bad News = Set in stone

Good News = This is just a RUMOR!!!



riderz13371 on 06 May 2013
Cyrus_ATX said:
Goatseye said:
Cyrus_ATX said:

Microsoft: Next Xbox will work even when your Internet doesn’t

 

Scenarios that users expect to work offline will, in fact, work offline.

Should single-player games, Blu-ray playback, and live TV viewing be possible on a gaming console with no Internet connection? Most gamers would say "yes," but they have been worried that Microsoft feels differently; the next generation Xbox has been consistently rumored to require a permanent network connection.

It won't.

According to an internal Microsoft e-mail sent to all full-time employees working on the next Xbox, "Durango [the codename for the next Xbox] is designed to deliver the future of entertainment while engineered to be tolerant of today's Internet." It continues, "There are a number of scenarios that our users expect to work without an Internet connection, and those should 'just work' regardless of their current connection status. Those include, but are not limited to: playing a Blu-ray disc, watching live TV, and yes playing a single player game."

How far this offline support will extend still isn't clear. It could take the form of a fully offline mode akin to that on the Xbox 360 (insert optical disc, install game, play, all without an Internet connection) or it could be more like Steam (install and activate online but enable subsequent offline play once this has been done).

While one could argue that "installing a game" is one of the "scenarios" that gamers "expect to work" when offline, a more Steam-like approach would be consistent with rumors that the next Xbox will use its Internet connection to block installation of secondhand games.

Still, though the next Xbox won't make everybody happy, it looks like fears that the console will be useless when your broadband goes down have been overblown.

 

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/05/microsoft-next-xbox-will-work-even-when-your-internet-doesnt/

What have you done?

What are the flamebaiters gonna use to put down the console and brand that they don't like?

lol!!!

But remember information regarding durango for some people is like this:

Bad News = Set in stone

Good News = This is just a RUMOR!!!

You could say the same for the othse side

Bad news = RUMOR

Good news = XBOX 720 IZ DA BEST ERMAGERD



Cyrus_ATX on 06 May 2013
riderz13371 said:
Cyrus_ATX said:
Goatseye said:
Cyrus_ATX said:

Microsoft: Next Xbox will work even when your Internet doesn’t

 

Scenarios that users expect to work offline will, in fact, work offline.

Should single-player games, Blu-ray playback, and live TV viewing be possible on a gaming console with no Internet connection? Most gamers would say "yes," but they have been worried that Microsoft feels differently; the next generation Xbox has been consistently rumored to require a permanent network connection.

It won't.

According to an internal Microsoft e-mail sent to all full-time employees working on the next Xbox, "Durango [the codename for the next Xbox] is designed to deliver the future of entertainment while engineered to be tolerant of today's Internet." It continues, "There are a number of scenarios that our users expect to work without an Internet connection, and those should 'just work' regardless of their current connection status. Those include, but are not limited to: playing a Blu-ray disc, watching live TV, and yes playing a single player game."

How far this offline support will extend still isn't clear. It could take the form of a fully offline mode akin to that on the Xbox 360 (insert optical disc, install game, play, all without an Internet connection) or it could be more like Steam (install and activate online but enable subsequent offline play once this has been done).

While one could argue that "installing a game" is one of the "scenarios" that gamers "expect to work" when offline, a more Steam-like approach would be consistent with rumors that the next Xbox will use its Internet connection to block installation of secondhand games.

Still, though the next Xbox won't make everybody happy, it looks like fears that the console will be useless when your broadband goes down have been overblown.

 

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/05/microsoft-next-xbox-will-work-even-when-your-internet-doesnt/

What have you done?

What are the flamebaiters gonna use to put down the console and brand that they don't like?

lol!!!

But remember information regarding durango for some people is like this:

Bad News = Set in stone

Good News = This is just a RUMOR!!!

You could say the same for the othse side

Bad news = RUMOR

Good news = XBOX 720 IZ DA BEST ERMAGERD

100% agree!!!

lol



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hasonap on 06 May 2013

I would have been okay with having Always online on games mainly because my internet is good and reliable and I Always log in to Live when I am playing. What I was concerned about was that watching things on the Xbox would require me to log in, that would have ben a major fuck up especially here in Europé where the apps aren't so widespread.

Anyhow this is good news and hopefully it's true



maximrace on 06 May 2013

As expected



DirtyP2002 on 06 May 2013

Waiting for MUGEN / VGKing / Thismeintiel to clear things up.



Imagine not having GamePass on your console...

walsufnir on 06 May 2013
riderz13371 said:
Cyrus_ATX said:
Goatseye said:
Cyrus_ATX said:

Microsoft: Next Xbox will work even when your Internet doesn’t

 

Scenarios that users expect to work offline will, in fact, work offline.

Should single-player games, Blu-ray playback, and live TV viewing be possible on a gaming console with no Internet connection? Most gamers would say "yes," but they have been worried that Microsoft feels differently; the next generation Xbox has been consistently rumored to require a permanent network connection.

It won't.

According to an internal Microsoft e-mail sent to all full-time employees working on the next Xbox, "Durango [the codename for the next Xbox] is designed to deliver the future of entertainment while engineered to be tolerant of today's Internet." It continues, "There are a number of scenarios that our users expect to work without an Internet connection, and those should 'just work' regardless of their current connection status. Those include, but are not limited to: playing a Blu-ray disc, watching live TV, and yes playing a single player game."

How far this offline support will extend still isn't clear. It could take the form of a fully offline mode akin to that on the Xbox 360 (insert optical disc, install game, play, all without an Internet connection) or it could be more like Steam (install and activate online but enable subsequent offline play once this has been done).

While one could argue that "installing a game" is one of the "scenarios" that gamers "expect to work" when offline, a more Steam-like approach would be consistent with rumors that the next Xbox will use its Internet connection to block installation of secondhand games.

Still, though the next Xbox won't make everybody happy, it looks like fears that the console will be useless when your broadband goes down have been overblown.

 

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/05/microsoft-next-xbox-will-work-even-when-your-internet-doesnt/

What have you done?

What are the flamebaiters gonna use to put down the console and brand that they don't like?

lol!!!

But remember information regarding durango for some people is like this:

Bad News = Set in stone

Good News = This is just a RUMOR!!!

You could say the same for the othse side

Bad news = RUMOR

Good news = XBOX 720 IZ DA BEST ERMAGERD


Can you give some examples?



Jaywood2010 on 06 May 2013

Still a rumor by this point but seeing as this i supposedly an email from MSFT then this seems to be the most plausible rumor of them all. It is very interesting ig this is true because it will mark a ton of sites as posting false information and the fans who went haywire (mostly fans of another company) will finally have to shutup about it.