Microsoft is watching: DRM interrupts Killer Instinct tournament in NYC

By scoop newsman on Monday, December 16, 2013 with 3 comments

NEW YORK, NY -- Much to the shock of no one that owns Sony's Playstation 4 Video Game Console, it appears that Microsoft's insidious Digital Rights Management System, or "DRM", reared its ugly head during a local tournament for the Xbox One title Killer Instinct in New York City on 12 December 2013. During a live broadcast of the tournament on Twitch.tv, it appears that Microsoft's DRM system on the Xbox One activated, dropping the players back into the Xbox One Operating Systems' "Home" screen and prompting them to verify that they "own this game or app". It took nearly four minutes to resolve the DRM issue by connecting to the Internet to verify the software as genuine. This issue may prove to be a deal-breaker for the Tournament Organizers Party, which may opt not to run tournaments for games on the system, including Killer Instinct, should DRM issues such as these continue.

The owner of the Xbox One console said on stream that the DRM check "wouldn't happen if you go [into] Offline [mode]", though he followed up that statement with "it very rarely happens [at home] If I'm Online... once in a blue moon". This indicates that owners of Xbox One consoles are just as confused as everyone else is about the DRM, which means that you'd probably have better luck trying to get CDJr to stop complaining about Sabrewulf and just play the damn game than trying to understand how the DRM schemes work. You can view the incident on the "Nycfurby" Twitch.tv channel.

When solicited for comment on this story, a Microsoft representative asked, "What is 'FGCNN'?", before hanging up the phone. Double Helix was not asked to comment on this story. FGCNN has not been able to research the validity of any of these "DRM" claims, as FGCNN staff skipped over purchasing an XBox One to instead purchase a low-end $400 Gateway computer, as performance was better.

Is Microsoft completely clueless? Is Double Helix terrified that Microsoft's Draconian DRM schemes are going to lead to the demise of their title as a competitive game? Does anyone even care about "Killer Instinct"? Should everyone just buy Valve's "Steam Machine"? Let us know in the comments below!

Source: http://www.fgcnn.com/2013/12/microsoft-is-watching-drm-interrupts.html

What is FGCNN?

Such a shit article, I wish I never clicked it..

Name of the website.

What the fuck is this shit?

Is Microsoft completely clueless? Is Double Helix terrified that Microsoft's Draconian DRM schemes are going to lead to the demise of their title as a competitive game? Does anyone even care about "Killer Instinct"? Should everyone just buy Valve's "Steam Machine"?

I'll take a guess at "fighting game community news network".

@ topic )

that doesn't seem like much of an issue, online only games like League of Legends or Starcraft 2 have far bigger problems all the time, yet they seem to do well as competitive games

I do understand however, that interruptions like this are new to fighting game competitions.

This is a parody site, then?

Sensationalist drivel. Will never give that site my clicks.

The article ofcourse wasn't anywhere close to professional, but the situation really occured. There is a link to the video in the article. (at "Nycfurby" - it isn't highlighted for me, but I found it when I wanted to copy/paste the twitch channel name)

yet another no-news -news.

let this happen 10 times(confirmed)
then we may call it a small issue
let it happen 50 times than it is a problem to talk about