Microsoft reversing their restrictions!!!

http://kotaku.com/microsoft-is-removing-xbox-one-drm-514390310

OMG!!!, Just went over it. Pre-order xbox one confimed!!

It is official now!!!! Very happy about this news!

Great! Now people can shut the f*** up about Microsoft's now defunct DRM policies. However, people are hard to satisfy, and the extra $100 and mandatory Kinect ensures the Xbox One will still be in bad favor. I am happy about this news though, I was already getting an XB1, but this news makes my purchase more worthwhile.

what if they change there mind a year down the road  :cry:

Thank you Microsoft for listening to us! This always-online thing was going to be awful.

Too little too late. They didnt care at all about the outcry a month ago but now that they see its costing them hard cash in terms of preorder numbers they wanna get in our good graces. Microsoft just told us a week ago that if we dont want 24hr check ins the 360 is for us. So forget them and their smug arrogance. They basically told us tough poo a week ago and are now saying oops. Maybe they should be asking us to forgive them and apologizing and not putting out some garbage "thanking us" You needed E3 and millions of rants to tell you DRM and online checks were a bad idea. THe 300 people that bought bionic commando 3years ago would tell you how terrible drm is let alone what happened with simcity just this year!captainzornan

How is it too late? The consoles don't come out for another 4-5 months. This was a smart business move by Microsoft. They listened to the consumer and are willing to change their policies. There is no reason to be complaining about this. This is good.

[QUOTE="captainzornan"]Too little too late. They didnt care at all about the outcry a month ago but now that they see its costing them hard cash in terms of preorder numbers they wanna get in our good graces. Microsoft just told us a week ago that if we dont want 24hr check ins the 360 is for us. So forget them and their smug arrogance. They basically told us tough poo a week ago and are now saying oops. Maybe they should be asking us to forgive them and apologizing and not putting out some garbage "thanking us" You needed E3 and millions of rants to tell you DRM and online checks were a bad idea. THe 300 people that bought bionic commando 3years ago would tell you how terrible drm is let alone what happened with simcity just this year!XboxGuy1537

How is it too late? The consoles don't come out for another 4-5 months. This was a smart business move by Microsoft. They listened to the consumer and are willing to change their policies. There is no reason to be complaining about this. This is good.

what if they change there mind a year down the road  :cry:

djdarkforces

[QUOTE="djdarkforces"]

what if they change there mind a year down the road  :cry:

Rattlesnake_8

[QUOTE="XboxGuy1537"]

[QUOTE="captainzornan"]Too little too late. They didnt care at all about the outcry a month ago but now that they see its costing them hard cash in terms of preorder numbers they wanna get in our good graces. Microsoft just told us a week ago that if we dont want 24hr check ins the 360 is for us. So forget them and their smug arrogance. They basically told us tough poo a week ago and are now saying oops. Maybe they should be asking us to forgive them and apologizing and not putting out some garbage "thanking us" You needed E3 and millions of rants to tell you DRM and online checks were a bad idea. THe 300 people that bought bionic commando 3years ago would tell you how terrible drm is let alone what happened with simcity just this year!gagit811

How is it too late? The consoles don't come out for another 4-5 months. This was a smart business move by Microsoft. They listened to the consumer and are willing to change their policies. There is no reason to be complaining about this. This is good.

They are not going to change the price. If you can't afford it, then the PS4 is probably a better choice for you considering it's $399

They already showed their true face, so I'm still not buying it.

You guys killed the xbox.

You guys killed the xbox.

Desynkronic

Thank you!

This is the only way to look at this

SON OF A `@& Microsoft you were supposed to shoot yourself right out of the gaming industry....UHG!!! Still not buying it though. Remove Kinect 2.0 and we can talk.

[QUOTE="gagit811"][QUOTE="XboxGuy1537"]

How is it too late? The consoles don't come out for another 4-5 months. This was a smart business move by Microsoft. They listened to the consumer and are willing to change their policies. There is no reason to be complaining about this. This is good.

XboxGuy1537

They are not going to change the price. If you can't afford it, then the PS4 is probably a better choice for you considering it's $399

what if they change there mind a year down the road  :cry:

djdarkforces

I was looking forward to being able to play one game and quickly loading another when friends are online. Also was looking forward to never switching game discs. Companies don't make revolutionary products by listening to the consumer, because consumers don't want what they haven't imagined. Shame on Microsoft for listening to all of these idiot complaints.

I was looking forward to being able to play one game and quickly loading another when friends are online. Also was looking forward to never switching game discs. Companies don't make revolutionary products by listening to the consumer, because consumers don't want what they haven't imagined. Shame on Microsoft for listening to all of these idiot complaints.

sruane23

I agree 100% all we have is your generic console here just like ps4 :/

[QUOTE="sruane23"]

I was looking forward to being able to play one game and quickly loading another when friends are online. Also was looking forward to never switching game discs. Companies don't make revolutionary products by listening to the consumer, because consumers don't want what they haven't imagined. Shame on Microsoft for listening to all of these idiot complaints.

Desynkronic

I agree 100% all we have is your generic console here just like ps4 :/

SON OF A `@& Microsoft you were supposed to shoot yourself right out of the gaming industry....UHG!!! Still not buying it though. Remove Kinect 2.0 and we can talk.

Master_Of_Fools

Yes!

Had a feeling this would happen, but not this soon though.

[QUOTE="sruane23"]

I was looking forward to being able to play one game and quickly loading another when friends are online. Also was looking forward to never switching game discs. Companies don't make revolutionary products by listening to the consumer, because consumers don't want what they haven't imagined. Shame on Microsoft for listening to all of these idiot complaints.

Desynkronic

I agree 100% all we have is your generic console here just like ps4 :/

A gaming console geared towards games? Blasphemy.

How lazy do you have to be to care about switching discs? You two sound like M$ lackeys who own Kinects.

[QUOTE="Desynkronic"]

[QUOTE="sruane23"]

I was looking forward to being able to play one game and quickly loading another when friends are online. Also was looking forward to never switching game discs. Companies don't make revolutionary products by listening to the consumer, because consumers don't want what they haven't imagined. Shame on Microsoft for listening to all of these idiot complaints.

dominer

I agree 100% all we have is your generic console here just like ps4 :/

A gaming console geared towards games? Blasphemy.

How lazy do you have to be to care about switching discs? You two sound like M$ lackeys who own Kinects.

The fact that you can't see the scope of what happened here and how it changed the industry in a negative way makes me pity you.

[QUOTE="dominer"]

[QUOTE="Desynkronic"]

I agree 100% all we have is your generic console here just like ps4 :/

Jaysonguy

A gaming console geared towards games? Blasphemy.

How lazy do you have to be to care about switching discs? You two sound like M$ lackeys who own Kinects.

The fact that you can't see the scope of what happened here and how it changed the industry in a negative way makes me pity you.

Since you pity me, please enlighten me on the negative changes.

[QUOTE="Jaysonguy"]

[QUOTE="dominer"]

 

A gaming console geared towards games? Blasphemy.

How lazy do you have to be to care about switching discs? You two sound like M$ lackeys who own Kinects.

dominer

The fact that you can't see the scope of what happened here and how it changed the industry in a negative way makes me pity you.

Since you pity me, please enlighten me on the negative changes.

Microsoft's policies were going to revolutionize digital content and rights.

The whole "well digital content is different" argument would have been thrown out because as this grew people would have the same control over their digital content as their physical content.

Know how you buy a digital game but it's stuck forever? With Microsoft's system you could resell it. That in turn brings value to digital only games. There's not a feeling that when you buy a digital game it's an anchor on your account.

Sharing games with up to ten people, instead of someone buying 4 games for themselves and their kids you bought one title and shared it.

We're back to the old backwards system when it comes to retail and digital.

Consumer rights were going to be expanded, now it's back to the old close minded ways that inherently punish consumers

Two steps in the right direction - now sell me a version without Kinect for $400 and we've got a deal. 

[QUOTE="dominer"]

[QUOTE="Jaysonguy"]

The fact that you can't see the scope of what happened here and how it changed the industry in a negative way makes me pity you.

Jaysonguy

Since you pity me, please enlighten me on the negative changes.

Microsoft's policies were going to revolutionize digital content and rights.

The whole "well digital content is different" argument would have been thrown out because as this grew people would have the same control over their digital content as their physical content.

Know how you buy a digital game but it's stuck forever? With Microsoft's system you could resell it. That in turn brings value to digital only games. There's not a feeling that when you buy a digital game it's an anchor on your account.

Sharing games with up to ten people, instead of someone buying 4 games for themselves and their kids you bought one title and shared it.

We're back to the old backwards system when it comes to retail and digital.

Consumer rights were going to be expanded, now it's back to the old close minded ways that inherently punish consumers

Internet explodes X1 HAS DRM !!!! MICROSOFT ARE A@@ HOLES. They reverse and remove DRM internet explodes WHAT WUSSES!

[QUOTE="dominer"]

[QUOTE="Jaysonguy"]

The fact that you can't see the scope of what happened here and how it changed the industry in a negative way makes me pity you.

Jaysonguy

Since you pity me, please enlighten me on the negative changes.

Microsoft's policies were going to revolutionize digital content and rights.

The whole "well digital content is different" argument would have been thrown out because as this grew people would have the same control over their digital content as their physical content.

Know how you buy a digital game but it's stuck forever? With Microsoft's system you could resell it. That in turn brings value to digital only games. There's not a feeling that when you buy a digital game it's an anchor on your account.

Sharing games with up to ten people, instead of someone buying 4 games for themselves and their kids you bought one title and shared it.

We're back to the old backwards system when it comes to retail and digital.

Consumer rights were going to be expanded, now it's back to the old close minded ways that inherently punish consumers

I can understand some people liking that. But me, and I'm pretty sure many other gamers, don't care about digital games on their consoles from M$ especially. I've never had a digital game and probably never will outside XBLA games of course.

I don't get sharing your point. You saying you would rather be able to share games with a limited amount of people online and be restricted beyond that than buying a disc an doing whatever with whoever?  

The damage is done, at least MS recognized their total clusterfuk and fixed their policy's. now if they can fix their price to match the ps4 and they are back in the game. gagit811

This. Microsoft showed how much of a nazi they can really be and have left a bad view in a lot of peoples eyes for it. I hope Nintendo beats them with the Wii U.

I was looking forward to being able to play one game and quickly loading another when friends are online. Also was looking forward to never switching game discs. Companies don't make revolutionary products by listening to the consumer, because consumers don't want what they haven't imagined. Shame on Microsoft for listening to all of these idiot complaints.

sruane23

Great! Now people can shut the f*** up about Microsoft's now defunct DRM policies. However, people are hard to satisfy, and the extra $100 and mandatory Kinect ensures the Xbox One will still be in bad favor. I am happy about this news though, I was already getting an XB1, but this news makes my purchase more worthwhile.

antiAntag0nist

[QUOTE="antiAntag0nist"]

Great! Now people can shut the f*** up about Microsoft's now defunct DRM policies. However, people are hard to satisfy, and the extra $100 and mandatory Kinect ensures the Xbox One will still be in bad favor. I am happy about this news though, I was already getting an XB1, but this news makes my purchase more worthwhile.

ShaineTheNerd

[QUOTE="djdarkforces"]

what if they change there mind a year down the road  :cry:

Rattlesnake_8

This is a lame excuse, and you should feel bad about it! 

for me, i'm 100& solid on PS4 now, but will decide whether or not to get X1, if i do, it will prob be a while, i for one will not forgive MS for what they did and if they can just take it all off, what if they put it all back on?. Not that they would of course, but i no longer trust MS, but thats just meMickeyminime

Yeah but what happens if Sony puts in DRM. Let me guess Sony are the Saints of gaming they would never do that. Please grow up. 

Pretty disappointed by this. I always figured MS would change the 24 hour check-in, but to eliminate all of their industry changing policies sucks. They were forging ahead would have shown people what they wanted when they thought they hated it. They were Nintendo innovating without a damn and now they have become Bioware and given in to media pressure.

[QUOTE="captainzornan"]Too little too late. They didnt care at all about the outcry a month ago but now that they see its costing them hard cash in terms of preorder numbers they wanna get in our good graces. Microsoft just told us a week ago that if we dont want 24hr check ins the 360 is for us. So forget them and their smug arrogance. They basically told us tough poo a week ago and are now saying oops. Maybe they should be asking us to forgive them and apologizing and not putting out some garbage "thanking us" You needed E3 and millions of rants to tell you DRM and online checks were a bad idea. THe 300 people that bought bionic commando 3years ago would tell you how terrible drm is let alone what happened with simcity just this year!XboxGuy1537

How is it too late? The consoles don't come out for another 4-5 months. This was a smart business move by Microsoft. They listened to the consumer and are willing to change their policies. There is no reason to be complaining about this. This is good.

I guarantee you that it will come back down the road. I am not falling for it...sorry...not happening. Plus, the fact that Microsoft buckled under pressure shows that they can easily bring it back. *sigh* But what doesit matter? Most of you are going to charge the GameStop for the XboxOne likes the zombies from World War Z.