No, I dont frequent gaming forums (True Story) XD  High Five! XD

If your phone was made in the last 3 years, the chances are you have a Wifi hotspot function. That should be good enough for a simple daily check, don't you think?

For the love of google, stop with the High Fives and the XD faces. It fucking annoys me deeply :'(

Just spreading the love <3 but for you. Hug :3

I can certainly understand daily checkins being a dealbreaker for some, however I think for most it really won't matter. For me I find the concept irritating but I know it simply won't affect me as my computers and consoles are connected 24x7 already anyway. I will know which way I will go after e3, currently leaning towards Xbone due to the extra media functionality, but that could change based on E3 games lineup as for me it is still primarily about gaming.

Accessing an online internet forum and accessing everything you use on an entire platform is kind of different. Then again, I'm sure you understand this. I think a lot of people don't mind the actual online thing but are more concerned about privacy, this is bound to get worse now with the massive intelligence leak that was reported today where Microsoft was among the companies where intelligence agencies could access absolutely everything they gathered of information.

Was curious if you thought this was something only on VGC, or just with the general public. (It's definitely the latter)

For anyone saying they have internet on their phones but not in their home, and how that's a dealbreaker since they think that means they won't be able to use the X1, I point you to this statement from the Xbox Wire:

"In areas where an Ethernet connection is not available, you can connect using mobile broadband." So if your mobile broadband is reliable, your X1 will connect to the cloud through that, even in your internet goes down for some reason for a few days. Problem solved.

That is all. Carry on with your arguments.

Talking to people around the world on online servers is very different from playing an offline game that doesn't require internet to function. A better comparison would be if your PC required the internet to use MS Paint. I'm sure most wouldn't be happy with that either. The problem some people have is the fact an internet connection is largely unnecessary to the experience they want; therefore mandating it is stupid.

Yeah, shame on all of you who actually care for others but yourself!