XBox One, PS4, DRM, and You

The flaw in your assumption is that their policies were a mistake. Those weren't a mistake. The mistake was the communication plan. MS has now compounded their mistake by backpedalling from a forward-looking set of policies to a pander to a bunch a worthless, clueless luddites.

 

What was so good in checking on me every 24 hours or not letting me do whatever I want with a game disc I own? Internet is weird .

 

Microsoft messed up because they didn't have their message ready to respond to the leaks when they happened. The leaks about DRM came out and speculation ran wild. The pitchforks were out and the vocal "core" gamer was very angry. Gaming "journalists" pushed the story and Microsoft wasn't ready to respond. Funny seeing the same sites run stories implying this is a step back. So far a lot of the devs I've seen on twitter have not outright complained about the change, but have tweeted links that imply they aren't too happy about it. Gamestop is probably really happy. I don't really see that as a good thing. Some forum warriors are happy. I guess that's ok. Personally, it doesn't make much of a difference to me. I'm not sure how consoles will make the jump to an all-digital marketplace after this fiasco. It'll be interesting to see how this affects game pricing. Are digital sales allowed to undercut disc prices? Will game prices go up?

 

Which ones require a net connection? Do we have info on this? As far as I know, it was only BF3 which required net to play sp uptill now.

 

Do you think publishers and developers were happy with Sony's Microphone drop stunt?

 

The wink was just because MS was touting it as a big feature which can come to fruition only if they can guarantee that all players will be online. Guess it will be segregated to MP games mostly. I still don't see what they can offer with the cloud which can't be done otherwise. Demons Souls had ana amzing implementation on its own.

 

No idea. Reflecting on the lack of clarity about a number of their policies, it almost feels like it was all put together at the last minute. Although it's been hinted by folks here, in the know, that some aspects of Xbox One (like some tools) aren't as far advanced as Microsoft would like, it's really hard to believe that their policies weren't close-to-final with all the considerations carefully mapped some time before the 22 May event, or E3. But lack of finalisation would explain a lot.

It may be that the shared library idea actually was a last minute brainwave but had some hurdles ahead of it - and given the other changes they now have to implement, it was better to sideline it for the time being.

Laziness? No, but lack of time is a possibility. Spite? No, because billion dollar companies investing hundreds of millions in billion dollar markets are generally don't make decisions based on emotion, but it does look a little like Microsoft threw their toys out of the pram over this - there's not a lot they can do about perception though. In terms of mis-communication, they are definitely on a roll.

 

I have a suspicion many games will be sold as "online only".

 

Linus Blomberg seems to be very unhappy with the change.

I've seen several high-profile devs tweet this today. http://www.dorkly.com/article/52521/don-mattricks-first-draft-of-the-xbox-one-update-announcement

Seriously, looking at twitter, I can't find any devs saying anything good about this change. They're either staying silent or they're saying this policy change is a loss.

 

What makes u think i m happy ?

 

We don't know yet. We don't know what the ins and outs of the sharing system were. All we know is you can share a game with up to 10 people. We don't know what incentives Microsoft added for the other of the 10 people to also buy the game.
Sony's solution was you can share the game with 5 people (later 2) and have nothing to do with them again. There was account trading going on for a while too.

 

MS have also, basically, given all these ideas away for free now, and with no way of being the first to implement them come play time.

You can bet your bottom dollar that Sony are formulating a way to implement digital game sharing so they can steal the thunder from MS.

 

Any game that's users smart glass to add to the experience needs a internet connection .......titanfall .......the division ....they need a internet connection for the single players as well .
Other games that are single player like watchdog other extra experiences if your online during single player .
Destiny is online only ...

Its happening already I just expect it to happen more frequently as Microsoft and developers soft ball everyone into a always connected digital future by the back door .
They tried the frontal honest approach now they will do it by stealth .

By the way I was onside already for a always connected digital future .

 

What are the chances of selling two versions of the discs retail? Have a section of "Digital Download No Disc Required After Install", along with the regular discs?

This would prevent backlash as there is still consumer choice. What it solves is the current bandwidth issue for some people to get digital "No disc required versions" in the short term.

 

OK a stand corrected my bad
But its happening they are trying to blur the lines between single player and multi player for a reason .