Was Microsoft's DRM meant to be always online?

[MfA]

I have a huge problem with understanding how Microsoft's previous DRM scheme was supposed to work in practice. I just don't see how the publishers could agree with it with only a 24 hour connection requirement. Both the single account logons on multiple consoles and the family based sharing would allow multiple people to play a single player game from a single license if the console only needed to be online every 24 hours. The only way to restrict it to a single player at a time is always online.

Did negative publicity already cause Microsoft to change their scheme before we ever saw it, from always online to semi-always online ... but in a way which in the end Microsoft simply couldn't sell the publishers on?

PS. oops, meant to post this in the console forum, oh well.

 

[warb]

It was 24hrs offline on your console, 1 hour on other consoles.


I'd have 24h check back if it meant sharing for DD games and no discs required after installation. The PC/console is always connected anyway. We're losing any potential trading of downloaded games too? For those who go download only to avoid a mess of disc changing, we are much more limited with what we can do with that content after this change.