maybe those people are not on this site because they dont have internet?

I stood against it but not because I dont have internet, but because not everyone in the world has.

Also lets say you temporarily lost your internet connection for a few days, then youre stuck with a box that cant do anything after 24 hours....a box for which you paid £350-£430, and £50 for the games (£60 if you bought them off PSN or XBL). It reminds you that no matter how much you spend, you dont own it which would be stupid.

Anyway, theres not one single advantage to it for the consumer so why would anyone support it unless they work for MS?

A forum dedicated to games is probably the worst place to ask this question. Everyone here is more of a hardcore gamer. The 24 hour check in was never going to affect us. Doesn't mean we had to like it.

That's exactly it. It does carry no advantages at all to the consumer and would not be required at all for any of the games to function. It was 100% anti-consumer from the start and they tried to sugar coat it was family sharing which was never even gone into detail. Their original vision had no rentals, no resale (unless permitted by publishers) unless brought to specific retail chains. No searching for the best possible return on your property. After you bought something they still felt they had rights to get a portion of your sale, which is preposterous.

They can still give you family sharing without the 24 hour DRM and I am sure we will see it in the future too for digital downloaded title. I am sure we will see a lot of great upgrades like this within the next few years.

Physical titles should remain as is. Digital should add perks to entice us to believe they are worth being charged the same price as retail while carrying no actual ownership rights.

This is my take on the whole thing and personally I am appalled that people treat all of this like it is no big deal just because they don't personally care. It affects everyone and allowing it will carry a lot of consequences moving forward.

My X-Box 360, PS3, and Wii are almost always offline. I don't even have my 360 plugged in via ethernet, and I don't have a wifi card in my old model

Me. Xbox, go home. =D

People who don't have the internet are not the target market. Guess what? people who liv ein countries without a cell network aren't the target market for an iPhone. People who live in areas without electricity aren't the target market for any electronics. And people who live in countries with poor internet aren't the target market for the X1. 

Also, saying there is "not one single advantage" is hyperbole. You clearly don't know what MS was planning if you say that. The 24 hour checkin was to allow sharing. Obviously you can't share games offline, or everyone can share a game, others log offline.... free game. The family sharin g and cloud stored games allowed those of us who are connected 24/7 anyway to actually move into the 21st century as far as game storage/sharing. 

I think MS realized all the countries with less infrastructure were going with Sony products anyway, why target them? The 360's prime advantages over the PS3 were always it's online and multiplayer capabilities, they were planning to widen the gap once again. 

Yah we have this debate months ago and it is definitly not an interresting one (esp. on these forums)... It is not a big deal for me and for several others looks like. It seems to be a big one for you (and several others) and I respect that.

Family Sharing: It was detailled :  The plan was clear, buy the game, have up to 10 people added to your "family" and those people can "check-out" games to play them on any console they are logged on (and lock them during that time); this required the 24h check. The fact that some people did not believe it or challenged (as always) Microsoft of hiding or not "revealing" all the details was just pure speculations from haters who saw another great evil plan from MS...

As of now, you do not need to be online at all to play your downloaded games so they cannot implement it for those "already" downloaded games. They can however implement a future way of proptecting these games (maybe to download a 24h required check that can work on many consoles OR like today a version that is tied to your console). Let's just hope that it will happen...

Nope always connected

@Imaginedvl

There where people a few weeks ago that didn´t belive snap, suspend, voice comands and TV integration would work on the Xbox One.

People belived Xbox had serious problems with manufecture and would not be able to ship the same number of units.

And so on, and so forth.

I do not disagree with the fact that physical version should remain the same. For the reasons you specified.

But when you say that just because we do not personnaly care we should not let this happen because it will affect everyone; this is where you are wrong imo.

I personnaly CARE for it actually to happen : what the 24h check brings to the table is actually something I WANT (to have my familiy be able to play all my digital games on my 3 consoles without the need to buy it for each account); and I do not see why I would not be pushing for that...