Xbox One DRM and Always Online Have Been REMOVED!

By Cinderkin — June 19, 2013
Tags: microsoft news xbox-one

It's happened just as most of us had predicted. Our hate for everything wrong with the Xbox One has made Microsoft change it's policies. Check it out!

Straight from the horses mouth! Since their website is crashing right now. Read on Below:

Last week at E3, the excitement, creativity and future of our industry was on display for a global audience.

For us, the future comes in the form of Xbox One, a system designed to be the best place to play games this year and for many years to come. As is our heritage with Xbox, we designed a system that could take full advantage of advances in technology in order to deliver a breakthrough in game play and entertainment. We imagined a new set of benefits such as easier roaming, family sharing, and new ways to try and buy games. We believe in the benefits of a connected, digital future.

Since unveiling our plans for Xbox One, my team and I have heard directly from many of you, read your comments and listened to your feedback. I would like to take the opportunity today to thank you for your assistance in helping us to reshape the future of Xbox One.

You told us how much you loved the flexibility you have today with games delivered on disc. The ability to lend, share, and resell these games at your discretion is of incredible importance to you. Also important to you is the freedom to play offline, for any length of time, anywhere in the world.

So, today I am announcing the following changes to Xbox One and how you can play, share, lend, and resell your games exactly as you do today on Xbox 360. Here is what that means:

An internet connection will not be required to play offline Xbox One games– After a one-time system set-up with a new Xbox One, you can play any disc based game without ever connecting online again. There is no 24 hour connection requirement and you can take your Xbox One anywhere you want and play your games, just like on Xbox 360.

Trade-in, lend, resell, gift, and rent disc based games just like you do today – There will be no limitations to using and sharing games, it will work just as it does today on Xbox 360.

In addition to buying a disc from a retailer, you can also download games from Xbox Live on day of release. If you choose to download your games, you will be able to play them offline just like you do today. Xbox One games will be playable on any Xbox One console -- there will be no regional restrictions.

These changes will impact some of the scenarios we previously announced for Xbox One. The sharing of games will work as it does today, you will simply share the disc. Downloaded titles cannot be shared or resold. Also, similar to today, playing disc based games will require that the disc be in the tray.

We appreciate your passion, support and willingness to challenge the assumptions of digital licensing and connectivity. While we believe that the majority of people will play games online and access the cloud for both games and entertainment, we will give consumers the choice of both physical and digital content. We have listened and we have heard loud and clear from your feedback that you want the best of both worlds.

Thank you again for your candid feedback. Our team remains committed to listening, taking feedback and delivering a great product for you later this year.

It was the gamers that made this happen. We said no to Microsoft and no to the Xbox One and now we all win. I still think the console is $100 to expensive but this is great for gamers. Now I will have both systems and won't miss out on any exclusives.

Tell us what you think in the comments. Don't be a Jimmy!

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Sell me a kinect-less version for $100 cheaper and you've got a deal. :)

BatRastered has not rated Xbox One yet.
Jun 19, 2013 by BatRastered

pre-ordered. So that means I got 1 to sell to 1 of you Jimmys.

goukijones has not rated Xbox One yet.
Jun 19, 2013 by goukijones

Bat, I tweeted that to jimmy but I got called a nuab.. I think he secretly loves the Kinect.

Zero2990 has not rated Xbox One yet.
Jun 20, 2013 by Zero2990

Why so excited? You're still required to always keep the Kinect plugged in for it to function. You're still forced to spend the extra $100 to buy the Kinect with the console. You're still required to install the game to the HDD before you can play. Oh and you also get to lose features because they were so nice to do fix their DRM problem. The only reason they bothered with this was because they saw the pre-sale numbers were 3-1 in Sony's favor after E3 and that people had already begun to speak with their wallets. If it wern't for that; MS would have left things as they had planned. They didn't care about what anyone was saying (they made that obvious during E3). They only started to care after they saw how badly it was going to hurt their bottom line.

Also, some snippets from this article (http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/06/19/xbox-one-will-require-day-one-update):

"But as part of making the changes to allow you to use physical discs the way that you do today, what’s going to happen is your online games and your physical games will work like they do today. That does mean that features like Family Sharing won’t be there. Another example that we think is awesome is that when you move to any Xbox One, the ability to see all of your games in your Games Library. While you’ll clearly only see the ones that you downloaded online, you’d have to bring your physical discs for the other ones.”

Whitten also confirmed that, as Microsoft first said in May, Xbox One will still require the Kinect sensor (which is included in the box) in order to play games.

Whitten clarified that “you’ll still install [games] to the hard drive. Obviously if you download them from online that’s the way it works. If you put a disc in, it will install it to the hard drive. You will have to have the disc in the tray in order to play. One of the cool features that actually comes with that, as an example, because we built on all this infrastructure around Xbox One, is if I went to your house with my disc-based game and we played for a while, and obviously I’d installed and we played, and then I left with my disc, you could instantly buy that game with no downloads.”

kuroukage rated Xbox One Flush it
Jun 20, 2013 by kuroukage

Zero doesn't know what he is talking about ... STILL!

goukijones has not rated Xbox One yet.
Jun 20, 2013 by goukijones

Everyone knows goukijones loves the kinect!

@Kuroukage

Chill out bro. We know why they dropped the policies. You'll also notice that none of us at Gouki.com are actually hyped for the xbox one. It's just good for consoles to have competition. Although Sony killed it at E3 with this new change to the xbone Sony will now have to work harder and so will M$. Which means we all win as consumers because we get better products.

Just look at what EA has done to Madden. They've monopolized the NFL license and as a result have been making each game worse and worse as there is no one that can compete with them. So they don't even have to try to make a good game. No competition means the consumers suffer.

Cinderkin has not rated Xbox One yet.
Jun 20, 2013 by Cinderkin

Yeah, I still think the price difference and the Kinect makes this system irrelevant for tournaments like we run, both because of the extra stuff you have to lug around and the danger of somebody shouting "xbox off" in a crowded hall.

Though I will say this, many of the Xbox One's I saw at E3 didn't have the kinect hooked up, or at least it was hidden away. (Apparently, many of them were just PC's anyway).

BatRastered has not rated Xbox One yet.
Jun 20, 2013 by BatRastered

@ Batrastered

Because the E3 Xbox One demos were running on Windows 7 PC's using Nvidia Graphics card. Which is odd because the Xbone uses AMD cards. I read a report on that.

Also what happens if the Kinect breaks? Console becomes a brick as it's required for the console.

Cinderkin has not rated Xbox One yet.
Jun 20, 2013 by Cinderkin

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Xbox One DRM and Always Online Have Been REMOVED!

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