Microsoft has done a U-turn on their DRM and always-on policies for Xbox One.
I was going to get one anyway as I personally had little issue with the policies as they were, I am glad for the people that were unhappy though. Hope news of this gets to as many people as possible.
Have these changes affected your purchase decision?
(side note: They will still offer day one digital downloads which I am thankful for)
Nope. I was going to buy one before and still will. Just upset that they bent over for people. Yes i know the changes made people upset. But many people didn’t understand the benefits of the changes. I was looking forward to going digital and not needing discs anymore. Sadly now i have to.
Plus my favorite feature got tossed because of these changes. That and now we won’t see sales or games cheaper on day one like steam has. Just because people are too scared to progress.
> Nope. I was going to buy one before and still will. Just upset that they bent over for people. Yes i know the changes made people upset. But many people didn’t understand the benefits of the changes. I was looking forward to going digital and not needing discs anymore. Sadly now i have to.
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> Plus my favorite feature got tossed because of these changes. That and now we won’t see sales or games cheaper on day one like steam has. Just because people are too scared to progress.
You can still go digital they also said games will be released on XBL for download the day the game comes out.
Plus changing the always on thing was smart because that’s at least half the community you isolated
You need to have a disk in to play. Before they changed back, you were going to be able to play without a disk.
What you’re losing by reverting back.
“This move might be a step back for the game industry, no matter how bad it seemed at first.”
I’m glad some things were changed, and that Microsoft will listen… but dissapointed we’re not moving forward as an industry.
> You need to have a disk in to play. Before they changed back, you were going to be able to play without a disk.
Microsoft said games will also be availed to download like right now I have red dead redemption downloaded and I never had a disk.
You can buy games from XBL
With the original policies, you would install a game and never have to use the disk again. Now its like the 360, only downloaded games are without a disk.
> With the original policies, you would install a game and never have to use the disk again. Now its like the 360, only downloaded games are without a disk.
I will miss this and other things they were going to be bringing to the table for sure…
Oh well looks like I’ll be buying the majority of my games digitally for the Xbox One (providing the pricing is good i.e. No more than a retail copy)
I think Microsoft had a bold vision for the future, but the majority of the industry and audience just wasn’t quite ready for it, yet. I had very few problems with the original DRM policies that were in place, given that they would provide us with some fantastic features. It sucks to see that we will be missing out on those new features, but one can hope that they will be brought back slowly throughout the Xbox One’s lifespan.
As for whether this changed my purchase decision? Nope. I planned on buying one before the change, and still plan on buying one now!
Nope. I’m still getting a PS4 first. I made that decision before the Xbox One was relieved in May. I’ll get an Xbox eventually, but not at launch.
There are necessary evils that must be suffered for the industry to move forward. I think backing off was the worst move Microsoft could have made, with so many people -Yoinking!- about the internet requirements without knowing the whole picture. Most of my friends who admitted to actively protesting the Xbox One on forums were surprised when I told them about the friends and family circle, the cloud processing, and the possibility of price drops due to a digital market. Not enough people look at both sides of the coin, and I think Microsoft made a terrible mistake not just for themselves, but for gaming as an industry. Someone has to push these boundaries, and it’ll be a while before anyone does again, because they’ll see that even Microsoft pussed out.
> What you’re losing by reverting back.
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> “This move might be a step back for the game industry, no matter how bad it seemed at first.”
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> I’m glad some things were changed, and that Microsoft will listen… but dissapointed we’re not moving forward as an industry.
Pretty much this.
While I can see how the original policies of the Xbox One had some benefits, like PC gaming, I would still say that my opinion lied with the majority of console gamers. Going completely digital is a big and scary step for people that we just weren’t ready for. I was also not thrilled with the 24-hour online checkup thing because we all have times where our internet just goes down and we can’t take care of it for a undetermined period of time. While I would eventually like for consoles to go completely digital, the industry isn’t ready. People need to be weened into it. Microsoft is actually helping with that by having the free game downloads for gold members. Also I like loaning my friends discs, while borrowing their’s for me to play. The Xbox One can still have a very viable digital game market with periodical sales and such on digital games, assuming the Xbox has the memory to handle it.
Edit: While I am still not buying the Xbox One on release, because the price is just a little too steep for me and my 360 still works fine for the games I want to play that are coming out for the next few months, I will probably be picking up one about a year or so after release.
I was going to buy it before, but thank God. They are making the right decision.
No, they haven’t changed my purchase decision.
I was going to get an Xbox One when Halo 5 comes out, and I’m still going to do that.
Good, now drop Kinect and make Halo not suck, and I might just get an Xbone in 2014.
i was going to get one anyway, but i actually thought that the outcry over some of this stuff was really blown out of proportion. as we all know, however, there is no calming internet backlash like that with simple talk, so i am glad they did this so that xbox will not go down in flames, as people seemed to think it would by boycotting and such.
> i was going to get one anyway, but i actually thought that the outcry over some of this stuff was really blown out of proportion. as we all know, however, there is no calming internet backlash like that with simple talk, so i am glad they did this so that xbox will not go down in flames, as people seemed to think it would by boycotting and such.
But that “boycott” still resulted in the Xbox One being one of the more popular items on presently Amazon (not as popular as the PS4 but by no means a flop.) These policies should have been given the chance to work in the wild to demonstrate to people how utterly foolish their complaints were and furthermore their contention that the xbox one was a “failure” because a certain sub-demographic on the internet didn’t jive with the bold new direction the system is taking. Now we still get that, but blunted (ie. we loose family share, the ability to download games we’ve bought from retail if the mood takes us, and the ability to play any physical game without a disc) and there’s something ultimately tragic about how that creativity is being sacrificed because some mob of luddites can’t see a way past their dull expectations. It’s probably the best move for MS right now but what this has crystalized for me is how absolutely contemptible some of us gamers are.
Even still, this won’t be effecting my choice to purchase unless they touched cloud computing as well. If so I’ll be buying a pitchfork and torch of my own.
I was never going to buy one for the sake of buying one. Right now Xbox One has no games.
"but exclusives!’ what exclusives?
I’m getting Titanfall on pc, Battlefield 4 pc, Mirror’s Edge 2 already conformed for pc, Destiny is not ruled out by bungie for pc, and Battlefront will most likely be cross platform too knowing DICE/EA.
The removal of DRM is nice but until Xbox One gets any games I feel I’d want still not buying. Next year if Halo 5 looks decent and not going in the wrong direction still I might get it. Until then no reason when my pc is much better for gaming.
It’s changed things slightly, I had plans to wait a few weeks before launch before I made my final decision.
My only problem with it now is the Kinect. :I
I don’t really want it.
> Nope. I was going to buy one before and still will. Just upset that they bent over for people. Yes i know the changes made people upset. But many people didn’t understand the benefits of the changes. I was looking forward to going digital and not needing discs anymore. Sadly now i have to.
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> Plus my favorite feature got tossed because of these changes. That and now we won’t see sales or games cheaper on day one like steam has. Just because people are too scared to progress.
THIS