@matticles @sacatash He he he! That is basically what Microsoft is saying to the 'sheeple' who agrees with this policy or people who say 'I'm not bother with this' or 'I'm ok'. This will be so bad that the Xbox One is going to be the second coming of the Panasonic 3DO.

So all the games are 'rental' then. You don't own them and you don't keep them since all the games are dependent on the 'cloud' system for authentication. At least Steam allows you to backup your games and then allows you to go 'offline' mode as long as you want. But again, Steam is for PCs to circumvent piracy and the games are cheap to own.

There are so many things 'wrong' in the Xbox One in terms of consumer ownership. What if I buy a game and I wanted to trade it and found that the publisher disabled it for trading? What if I buy a game on Christmas and the authenticating servers went down? SimCity and Diablo 3 fiasco anyone? What if the servers are hacked(very possible), and my profile was stolen, then all my gaming library worth of hundreds of dollars is gone?

@thenephariouson @sacatash These are not rumours. They are straight from Microsoft themselves.

@thenephariouson Sorry Xbox One, you lose one customer today.

this just in:": Xbox One is designed so game publishers can enable you to give your disc-based games to your friends. There are no fees charged as part of these transfers. There are two requirements: you can only give them to people who have been on your friends list for at least 30 days and each game can only be given once."

@surferosh @sacatash You know what, reading some of the responses from Microsoft executives, I firmly believe that Microsoft already made a deal with retailers and publishers regarding used games fees and sales even before their Xbox Reveal a few weeks ago. The sad part is no matter what consumers/gamers objected, the amount of money that they have agreed and signed upon will not persuade Microsoft one bit. They would probably spew about 'security', 'piracy','protecting the Industry', 'billions of dollar loses', 'accessibility of the latest online', while boasting their '5 billion transistor' console to 'lead the console gamer to the future' stuff.

@jd7904 No its the same Pachter alias 'Captain Obvious'.

If the Xbox One is a NORMAL console since the NES in the 1980s that allows users to play a used/pre-owned game from a rental, pawn shop, Gamestop, eBay, Amazon, friend, relative then why would they round up 'answers' regarding DRM? Xbox 1 either has anti-consumer system in place or not. It's as simple as that.

The main issue is not about whether XB1 can play and demo those '15 exclusive games' at E3. The main issue is if Microsoft can finally reveal to people if they can freely trade, sell, buy and rent used games on Xbox One.

I already have a PC gaming machine which require me to authenticate/validate my purchased retail games or digitally on Steam.

After playing Dragon Age 1 and then severely disappointed on what they did with Dragon Age 2, I'm a bit cynical of what Dragon Age 3 will bring. In addition, I had bad experiences with EA's Origin service.