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Microsoft just dropped DRM
XAleX360
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I'm very surprised, but they just did it.
http://www.worldsfactory.net/2013/06/19/microsoft-surrenders-to-gamers-drm-is-no-more
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still not buying into it, there entire xbox one is built around the conetix camera to operate. Well I don't want microsoft and or big brother using that camera to spy on me. So for me the number one reason not get the xbox one is still an issue.
I'm happy to hear it, but it doesn't impact me at all. I am already always online, I don't buy used games, and I don't lend games to other people.
However, I think some gamers will get a rude awakening when they realize that both Xbox One and PS4 will support producer implementations of DRM on certain games.
Hate to breake it to you, but Sony does not do things because of this either, they do things to maximize profit, if that happens to align with pleasing the gamer crowd, that is just luck.
Still, good i guess.
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HAHAHA! Seems I won't have to wait until they've fix this problem after launch to get a XBox One!
"Small minds talk about people, average minds talk about events, great minds talk about ideas."
I am. Usually they ignore stuff like this and say something about how good things like this actually is for the customers (yeah, lying). But I guess they realized that screwing the customers before they buy the thing isn't very smart...
Good news anyways. Now if just companies like EA and Activision realized it too so we wont have to see any more Sim city and Diablo 3 styled games everything would be good,.
This I agree with.Still plenty of time before any system launches for this type of competitive maneuvering and it can only benefit we the consumers.
Either way, Sony's policies were in the right place, luck or not. MS's wasn't. It's natural for corporations to try and overreach, but then the people speak up and suddenly they remember they're outnumbered... and need money. Sony didn't try to overreach but MS did.
Too little too late. If they can switch their policies at a whim once they can do it again. Damage is done.
Of course Sony bases it's decisions on profitability they are a business.But Sony's philosphy this generation was profitability lies in pleasing consumers and having them buy their console not pleasing Publishers which was Microsoft's philosophy.
PS4 has a superior cloud based game feature its called Gaikai
Obviously those features didn't depend on Microsoft's stupid policies. The XB1 wasn't capable of anything the PS4 couldn't do before, and it's not any less capable of doing all that stuff now.
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I'll bite.
Seriously, I can't understand people who list that as their #1 concern. You're talking about a multi-billion $$ company with international recognition and influence. Their purpose as a business is to make money =/= being evil and doing things wrong just for the hell of it. You simply need to ask yourself, what do they have to gain for their investment and business decisions?
They were trying to strong arm DRM and push the industry to all digital, all online. They found out, through experience, it wasn't a good idea. At least, not yet. No one needs to tell them that giving extremely private data to the US government without the users permission or knowledge is a bad idea. Any contract they have with the NSA would be more than dwarfed in the total net losses if the world found out they straight face lied to everyone, and that our civil liberties have been breached by a multi media box in your living room...
The company said no data taken and stored by the Kinect will be uploaded without your express permission, and you can turn it off even to the point where it won't listen to Xbox On. Are they lying? I don't know. Do they have any incentive to? Not really. Do they have anything to lose if they are? Hundreds of millions of $$
Since when is Tuesday a direction?
I thought Gaikai was just streaming games? How I understood the xbox cloud system, was that since you were always online, the games would actually change the way they play based on the data they were receiving from the server. Like they showed a racing game called forza and they said the AI you were racing against would adjust based on information obtained from the "cloud." Or maybe I'm just misunderstanding. I still think the sharing thing was cool. The online restriction was necessary for it to work because you were only allowed to share with a certain number of people at a time or only a certain amount of people could play it at one time, so it would need to periodically check that.
I thought Gaikai was just streaming games? How I understood the xbox cloud system, was that since you were always online, the games would actually change the way they play based on the data they were receiving from the server. Like they showed a racing game called forza and they said the AI you were racing against would adjust based on information obtained from the "cloud." Or maybe I'm just misunderstanding. I still think the sharing thing was cool. The online restriction was necessary for it to work because you were only allowed to share with a certain number of people at a time or only a certain amount of people could play it at one time, so it would need to periodically check that.
The cloud system you described is just how online games work anyway. Microsoft's plan was to have additional content available on other devices. For instance, instead of having a mini map in your HUD, you'd have one on your cell phone or something like that. The cloud would tie the game you were playing to your mobile device.
Gakai's service runs games in the cloud and streams it to the client device. This is how the PS3 games are going to be available on the PS4.
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