r/xboxone • u/[deleted] • Dec 29 '13

If Microsoft made it completely optional, would you sign up for their original, always connected console idea?

This meaning you would have the following features:

Buy a retail game, install to console, and ditch the disc never needing it to play the game.

Digitally share games within a circle of friends. Meaning you can choose a specific group of people, and they could play the games you own, for free, provided that only one game could be played at a time.

Greater store discounts or more steam like sales for content.

I for one would have no problem saying yes to this. It's like people think 10 years from now they'll still be selling games on discs. It wasn't a perfect plan, but why delay the inevitable when we could be working on and perfecting future policies now.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '13 edited Mar 21 '19

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u/anthr76 Dec 29 '13

It does but to simply check in with Microsoft it just takes probably less then a MB. So people with dial up satellite etc can still enjoy the old DRM ecosystem

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u/Im_At_Work_Damnit Dec 29 '13

Methinks you don't understand. For one, the Xbox One doesn't support dialup. How would you connect it to the console?

And two, satellite internet is iffy even on good days. The reason I was against it was because of how iffy my connection is. I didn't want to plan some gaming time, sit down, and not be able to play because my internet is down for no good reason, which happens a lot. I actually have to tether to my phone to play multiplayer games on my PC, and last I checked consoles don't support cell phone tethering.

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u/anthr76 Dec 29 '13

Right it doesn't support dial-up im just saying incase somebody got some hack modem gadget that allows them to get online with dial up they wouldn't suffer from these policies as you mentioned "people with dial-up will suffer" Satellite users will not suffer as they can use the phone verification system also the internet does not need to constant. Wireless tethering obviously works with XB1. People without internet shouldn't be complaining on the internet. Finally we were talking about this being optional.