microsoft fanboys want online drm?

[megadrivesonic]

This is very scary, why on earth would this many people sign a petition like this? I couldn't believe what i was reading but unfortunately this is sad but true.

article link: http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Stupid-Fanboys-Petition-Mic rosoft-Bring-Back-Xbox-One-DRM-57382.html

[SneakyGameBoy]

Me neither. The whole idea for Microsoft was to put the customer on lock down. Why the hell would they want something like this to actually make it become a reality again?

[megadrivesonic]

At 7/10/13 07:51 PM, SneakyGameBoy wrote: Me neither. The whole idea for Microsoft was to put the customer on lock down. Why the hell would they want something like this to actually make it become a reality again?

there under the impression this is a needed change to gaming to make xbox live more like stream( which really it be the exact opposite of steam)

[Jackho]

The only explanation I can think of is that this isnt xbox fanboys, but people who really want to see the xbox one bomb as hard as possible. I doubt microsoft are dumb enough to re-reverse their policies anyway, so no biggie.

[megadrivesonic]

At 7/10/13 08:07 PM, Jackho wrote: The only explanation I can think of is that this isnt xbox fanboys, but people who really want to see the xbox one bomb as hard as possible. I doubt microsoft are dumb enough to re-reverse their policies anyway, so no biggie.

i just hope thats the case but considering my experiences with microsoft fanboys, its very likely these people are serious.

[Tony-DarkGrave]

What retards.

[Kunera]

At 7/10/13 08:07 PM, Jackho wrote: The only explanation I can think of is that this isnt xbox fanboys, but people who really want to see the xbox one bomb as hard as possible. I doubt microsoft are dumb enough to re-reverse their policies anyway, so no biggie.

That's my guess, too. It's probably people just fucking around, wanting this and for xbox fanboys to look as stupid as possible.

[Kunera]

Sorry about double posting, but I had to share one of the signatures on there:

"I love restrictions. I want always online DRM. I want the game rental business to become obsolete. I don't want to let my friends borrow games, because fuck them. All I care about is my god damn new age console that'll blow everything else out of the water! Fuck the PS4 and fuck those Sony guys for catering to fans who care about their gaming experience. Fuck PC, that shit is stupid. Steam? Fuck that shit. They never have sales or anything. It's not as affordable as buying my games from the XBL marketplace. I love Microsoft and their business practices will be the best forever. Fuck yes. Xbox."

I think my favorite sentence in that was "I don't want to let my friends borrow games, because fuck them."

[Sense-Offender]

People signing this because they want the system to fail must not realize that competition is a good thing.

[iMini]

There was in all fairness a lot of potential in an always online console, as microsoft mentioned you can take your games anywhere, you could loan your games to friends online, cloud computing to handle tasks too much for the Xbox One. I can see why some would want this back.

[Rampant]

At 7/11/13 12:37 PM, iMini wrote: There was in all fairness a lot of potential in an always online console, as microsoft mentioned you can take your games anywhere, you could loan your games to friends online, cloud computing to handle tasks too much for the Xbox One. I can see why some would want this back.

There was a lot of potential, but the limitations they put on it were completely stupid.

Always online? Sure, that could be useful, like downloading games or patches in the background while the console is hibernating. Crippling the console if you don't check in once every 24 hours? Dumb.

Share your games with friends? Awesome! Limited to sharing with one friend, period? Understandable from a publisher's viewpoint, but dumb from a consumer's standpoint.

Have all your games, even physical ones, stored on the Cloud, so you can download and play them from any console? Brilliant! Requiring mandatory installs to do so? Eh...

Bundled with Kinect? Could be cool, if they make games that use Kinect as a controller enhancement, not as the controller itself. (e.g. lean in real life, and your in-game character does the same -- could be used to peek around corners in FPS games, doge an RPG, that sort of thing.) Always-on, and must be attached to the console for it to work? ...facepalm.

Other than that, the only thing I really objected to was the potential for fees in used games. But even then, Microsoft said that was only something their console would enable, and that it would be up to the publishers, not something Microsoft would implement themselves.