Take this with a grain of salt folks! Oh and it has language in it that is NSFW or children.
http://www.neowin.net/news/anonymous-xbox-engineer-explains-drm-and-microsofts-xbox-one-intentions
You know, I get the whole wanting to make developers more money than Gamestop. Thus having to check in once a day to make sure you haven’t sold your games to GS. But for the rest of us who are not prolific game sellers or buy used games, having to check in once a day kind of sucks. Not to say a waste of electricity also. Mind you, I usually game nearly every day anyway. But there are those times when I DON’T game every day. My set-up is in the basement with my Halo collectibles. While it’s easy enough to get to, I still think it’s a pain in the arse to have to trapes myself down there just to check in when I have no intention of playing on a given day.
I totally get that MS wants to bring what it thinks is ground breaking tech to gaming. Yes, some of it is, but that Kinect virtually always having to be on IS creepy. It’s the “seeing eye” that NOONE really wants to have in their house. Yes, you can turn it off, but then you turn off certain capabilities the XBone can give you. Just way too many catch-22s if you ask me.
I just hope that Microsoft backs away from the every 24 hours thing. Maybe once every 72-96 hours. At least in that time if your power goes out the majority of people get their power back on in that time frame. If not, then you’ve got a lot of other much more important things to worry about than gaming. Still, there needs to be something developed for those who just can’t have internet service. Specifically, I’m talking about the military. Those folks defending your rights should be able to game when they get some downtime without having to worry about connectivity.
I really hope MS finds an answer to all of this and soon so we can get back to the fun of gaming and not worry about the “console” wars.
-Sal
Couldn’t read the original article from the engineer, but from what you’ve said, I hate it. I don’t see X-Box ONE working out very well. The original X-Box wasn’t doing to well, and Halo Combat Evolved saved it, and I don’t think that even then, much, if any profit was made from the old X-Box. Checking in every 24 hours? Overly attached console much? What about people who can’t afford to ‘game’ everyday, oh wait, they won’t be able to buy it, because it costs $500. And MS is a multi-billion dollar company, and still, they want to not have people buy or sell used games? I found both Fallout 3 and Borderlands at a Gamestop for $20.00 total. I loved both of them so much, I bought Fallout NV on sale and Borderlands 2 full price. So now, for alot of people, its seems like MS is limiting how many games we can play, considering new games could cost more than $60. I could go on and on, but I just don’t see X-Box ONE doing very well, no ‘Halo’ or Destiny is going to save it.
You don’t have to go turn on your console every 24-hours if you don’t play it. Say you don’t go on your Xbox for over 24-hours, and your console was completely unplugged from the mains (as it is never truly off, it’s just in an extremely low-power state, and can check in with the internet in that time. Apparently while gaming it even uses less power than the 360, so even with it being in a low-power state 24/7 it uses less electricity than the 360 overall) – if your internet went out, and you turned on your console after *more* than 24-hours of it being unplugged you wouldn’t be able to game.
But in the case your internet *wasn’t* out you’d be fine. As soon as you plugged in your console it would make the check and you’d be fine. In the event you didn’t unplug it from the mains you’d also be fine as the Xbox would be making checks periodically.
Also, say the console was plugged in and in it’s low-power state and your internet went out, you’d have 24-hours to game from the last check, unless you got your connection back.
Hope this cleared it up for you! 😀
NO if anything it was MROE confusing. I don’t really care about the power issues, though it’s nice to hear the XBone supposedly uses less than the 360. What I want Microsoft to upfront tell us is if your console is off for 24 hours, I’m talking completely off or you didn’t have net connection for 24 hours, how long before your console starts working again. Because if it stops working completely for good…that is an absolutely deal breaker. If it’s a matter of say 15 minutes or less to allow for it to verify your games, that would be okay.
Oh, no, sorry. It will still work, even if it hasn’t connected to the internet for 24-hours. Though you won’t be able to play your games, just Blu-ray films and TV, which is obviously bad.
When you next get an internet connection, it’ll make its little check and you can play games on it again. It won’t turn into a brick for eternity if you miss a check, don’t worry! 🙂
Or you can just connect the console to your phone and use your mobile internet, it takes Kilobytes of data to do the check and you can game for 24 more hours without needing to do another connect.
Is that clearer? 😛
The point is WHY should we HAVE to check in at all. I think it’s all nonsense. I get that they want to KILL used games sales, (and stores like GameStop, Game, etc.). Oh and until Microsoft says how long the time is until you can play GAMES again, I respectfully will not listen to anyone else’s guesses. The longer Microsoft stays quiet with this key piece of information, the more they are losing gamers to the Playstation. I could give a rat’s arse about playing Blue-Ray through a console or watching TV through one. I already have that set-up in my house and do not need nor want another device that encompasses it all (in hopes of taking away my business from all others). MS has overstepped their bounds IMO. They are trying to push TOO much on us at one time. If someone is stupid enough to go all-in with the XBone and give up their other devices, be they TV, smart phone, etc, then when the XBone fails (ala Red Rings) I don’t want to hear any crying. Did you know that by buying and playing with the XBone you agree to not sue Microsoft in a class action suit if something goes wrong with your XBone? I’ll try to find the link to that for proof. Essentially though it means that in order to sue them, you’d have to do so alone. Um, yeah…you know where that is going to go. I refuse to be a “Yes” man to Microsoft even if I love Halo. Sorry Cam, but this who MS/XB1 stuff is still pissing me off. I don’t want to start my day off like this so this topic is closed. Any further replies will just be deleted.