Microsoft doing complete reversal on XBone's DRM policies

RangerOfIthilien · Jun 19, 2013 8:50 PM

So apparently Microsoft is changing their mind on all this DRM business.

edit: looks like giantbomb is down, here's another article on the same issue: http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/19/44459 … al-changes

Hwd45 · Jun 19, 2013 9:10 PM

Official report here: http://news.xbox.com/2013/06/update

*laughs maniacally*

Clock-la · Jun 19, 2013 9:34 PM

Edit good tweet i found

@JeremyJahns: "Apparently, addressing #BOXone issues after you defended it throughout the biggest game expo of the year is the smart approach. #XBoxDone"

:-p

Stormy · Jun 20, 2013 12:06 AM

Well, what else are they going to do? They realized they made a mistake and fixed it.... I was never going to buy the new Xbox so I'm not defending them out of loyalty, but it's surprising to me that people are still complaining....

Honestly, if they really hate it that much, all they have to do is not buy it.

Clock-la · Jun 20, 2013 12:19 PM

Stormy wrote:

Well, what else are they going to do? They realized they made a mistake and fixed it.... I was never going to buy the new Xbox so I'm not defending them out of loyalty, but it's surprising to me that people are still complaining....
Honestly, if they really hate it that much, all they have to do is not buy it.

well yes, but they just spent E3 praising what they were doing only to make a u-turn tongue Kinda funny in my eyes.

Latias fan · Jun 20, 2013 2:29 PM

Nope

Now DRM 180 is a win for consumer but that doesn't change the fact that it's a inferior system and doesn't have any games I want to play.

Also, given recent years of MS pushing casual, casual, casual and non-gaming *bleep* at E3 this is all just way to lure the first batch of actual gamers in so they can start marketing it like a tv box again.

RangerOfIthilien · Jun 20, 2013 8:29 PM

To be perfectly honest, I feel bad for their employees who were working on all the technologies that were just scrapped. Who knows how long they were working on it and now it was all for nothing.

Mr. John · Jun 20, 2013 10:09 PM

Hope this is a step in the right direction Xbone huh kind of catchy But I'll stick to calling it Xbox One all the same.

36IStillLikeSpyro36 · Jun 21, 2013 7:05 AM

they were screwing everyone over with that technology. why do you feel bad about having it scrapped now?

RangerOfIthilien · Jun 21, 2013 2:10 PM

I don't feel bad for having it scrapped, the idea was retarded. Who I feel bad for is the programmers and engineers whose jobs it was to make it work. It wasn't their creative decision to implement it, nor was it theirs to take it out. Who knows how many hours/days/weeks/even months they put into working on it, just to have it all scrapped.

36IStillLikeSpyro36 · Jun 21, 2013 10:53 PM

that makes more sense.

yes, it must suck for them.

Clock-la · Jun 22, 2013 12:39 PM

KingLambda wrote:

I don't feel bad for having it scrapped, the idea was retarded. Who I feel bad for is the programmers and engineers whose jobs it was to make it work. It wasn't their creative decision to implement it, nor was it theirs to take it out. Who knows how many hours/days/weeks/even months they put into working on it, just to have it all scrapped.

Comes with the job I guess, I mean look at the shining, apparently the actress in the film playing the wife had alot more lines, however they were cut due to the directors disappointment with her delivery.

So i guess you just have to accept it, but I guess it would suck tongue

ccrogers15 · Jun 23, 2013 2:13 AM

Shows microsoft clearly crapped their pants when they seen the massive hate. Lol

Swaffy · Jun 24, 2013 3:33 AM

Well, it was good that people got onto them about it. They need to know
what's good and what's not good. Like a child being taught. MS is a child.

Clock-la · Jun 25, 2013 9:21 AM

Well atleast they did listen, unlike just telling us what we want :-P

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