See, this is why Microsoft is bad for the industry. Their stupid moves dreamed up by non-gamers create the biggest, most intellectually deficient fanboys I've ever come across in my life. Don't know what I'm talking about? Well just go to these two links and proceed to weep for humanity.
http://www.change.org/petit...
http://www.change.org/petit...
WHAT?!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can you see that the first petition has 250 signatures at the writing of this blog? The second one currently has 25.
275 people currently WANT DRM, they want the old consumer rights destroying Xbox One. They want the console that won't work without an internet connection. They want the console that gave the biggest middle finger to military personnel and every country without American internet.
Why? Because they bought Microsoft's line about the Xbox One being "The Future."
How can anyone in their right mind think taking control away from consumers is A GOOD THING?
"We want discless playing from disc games."
Which still exists but isn't mandatory. Xbox 360 has optional full disc installs. What makes you think Xbox One, which is supposedly the future, won't?
"We want family game sharing."
You want to be able to share 45 minute demos with 10 "family" members who will then have to buy the game after that 45 minutes?
"We want access to play our games on any Xbox One console."
Which you can still do. It's called bringing the disc with you.
"We want a console of the future, not an Xbox 360 on steroids."
None of those "features" are new or features of "the future." What they are is the confiscation of consumer rights and potentially the inability to allow the console to perform its basic function if you don't have a working network connection.
"We don't care if we have to check-in online once every 24 hour."
Because you're an idiot. You'll care when your connection fails at the appointed check in time and your console becomes useless until the connection is fixed.
"But thanks for making it region free. We DON'T want to change that!"
Oh, so region locking was where you drew the line? What? So you'll allow Microsoft to tell you what you can do with your own physical games, tell you that your console won't work without a network connection (or Kinect), and tell you that you can share gameplay demos that your "family" will eventually be told to buy, but region locking is a no no?
The existence of these kinds of people is enough to induce an immediate migraine. This is the audience Microsoft are after, and this is the audience Microsoft will target once they get the pesky, yet vocal, core gamers silenced by their paltry and likely short-lived core game support.
Imagine, there are people out there who are telling a company "We want you to take control away from us. We want you to tell us what to do with our money and our property."
Ladies and Gentlemen, Xbox One fanboys.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
This has to be trolling, please tell me people can't be this stupid!
To the people who signed the petition... http://m.youtube.com/watch?...
I thought the disk installs on the Xbox 360 still required the disk to be in the slot? So if my understanding is correct thats not quite the same as what the Xbox 1 was going for.
In all honestly I thought the diskless gaming of the Xbox One was a pretty cool feature. As a PC gamer then the idea of the disk being useless beyond the initial install wasnt that big a deal to me.
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
They may not want the old drm, they may want the features that Microsoft is now saying won't be available to them now that they changed their minds. Like the Family Share plan.
But also those Change.org petitions aren't meant for issues like these, they're supposed to be used to get a message to the white house.
Let them go man. We don't want people who want their rights to be taken away on any other platform, not even Ouya
Holy god, i took a look at the comments, and these people are dead serious. Lol, if this petition gets looked by MS, i may expect ANOTHER 180 turn lol