I predict nothing they do, show, or say will make me buy it.
No more chances.
Ah GameStop, not only do you fail your consumers you shoot yourself in the foot. I might have had some respect if they had been using there profits to fight this. But instead they are towing the line where the obvious end is not good for them.
Maybe today used games are still (and I use this extremely loosely) viable, but it's clear that at some point this will end with no used games. People and apparently companies too need to be able to look past today and into the fu...
Non-removable hard drive and new peripheral ports making old headsets incompatible.
Here's how you can win back my purchase.
1. We got rid of the fee for playing multi-player games using apps and the web browser ect.
2. We scrapped everything about the DRM, games won't be tied to your account in any way.
3. Kinect doesn't even need to be installed anymore.
4. You no longer need to have an internet connection to use the device.
5. We made the hard drive easily removable.
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This is pretty much what I expect.
You have got this closed platform in Xbox, which limits competition completely using DRM. At that point why even bother lowering prices, when there is no competition?
I fear that if Xbox DRM succeeds you won't be able to buy a bunch of older games (but still new) for 20$ from Amazon (or what ever store) anymore, because the prices will be fixed by the publishers.
Can it be entirely disabled? Or is it still part of the DRM system to make sure you don't have to many people in the room or to identify you as the owner of the media? I highly doubt any of that has changed. And listening is enough to creep me out.
No.
Originally I objected because of the fee to play games online ect. More recently it's also been DRM and privacy issues.
I can guess how it will work as the system is already in place on PC.
Before you can sell your game or someone else can buy it, the game will need to be de-authorized from the first purchasers xbox. So it's unlikely your friend will actually be able to "re-buy" the game you already own with the same disk if you haven't de-authorized it.
My bigger concern for the life and death of the Bone is the non-removable hard drive. It seems highly unlikely it would function after a HD failure.
I have never been closer to buying a WiiU then I have been this week. If Sony decides to add DRM like MS i'll be a WiiU owner next gen. (not that I might not buy a WiiU down the line anyways)
Xbox One is "designed" with trade and resale in mind.
Absolutely true, they designed it to limit and/or raise the cost of used games.
The average consumer (the type who doesn't by games) is not going to spend $300-500 just to change the channel by waving there arms. I'm sorry but there just not.
I hope it's an eye opener. I hope it opens Microsoft's eye's and they see that the educated consumer isn't going to buy all this DRM including and privacy infringing stuff.
Whats the deal with calling people fanoys. Are insults all you have?
You don't have to be a fan to not like the idea of DRM or to oppose used game blocking or to raise privacy concerns about Kinect.
Microsoft showed what they had to offer and most consumers who are educated in the topic rejected it. It's that simple, it has absolutely nothing to do with be a fanboy.
lol Can I spend more and get it gold plated and encrusted with diamonds?
Generally I don't root for legal action, but in this case I hope Microsoft and all the other companies who try this stuff spend the next 8 years in court fighting case after case.
I'd prefer zero Live Gold accounts.
I read this, and I feel for me they missed the point. I could care less about the TV stuff that's fine what ever. It's the DRM, and the proprietary stuff as well as the privacy issues. That is the reason i'm not interested.
Buying something used is not stealing, trading games with your friends is not stealing, giving games you have already played to family members is not stealing.