Xbox One 24 Hour Check DRM Returns?
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show how much bad feeling M$ have mustered, thet the majority jump to the "24 hr DRM is back" conclusion
While I'm aware of secondary consoles and the like, I'm yet to see a game stop in the midst of a game and check. And I date back to before the license transfer days, where Microsoft was all "sorry your console was a defective piece of crap, but yuo have to stay connected to the internet to use your stuff now!"Andy Shandy said:
Despite this situation not being nearly as bad as everyone is making it out to be, I bet Microsoft's PR department is kicking themselves right about now. They screwed up so bad back at E3 that every time something even hiccups on the system now it will be blown out of proportion all over the internet. I wonder how long it will be before there is some kind of official statement about this?
I imagine that most of these games were designed with the 24 hour check-in and the general console DRM in mind. I wouldn't be surprised if a few early titles have some slight issues. It's somewhat understandable that development studios may not have had a quick fix to remove all the DRM since they designed the software based on what they were told the console would have.
I'm going PS4 this time around but I'd like to give MS some benefit of the doubt here.
I'm going PS4 this time around but I'd like to give MS some benefit of the doubt here.
Seems more like a bug than anything intentional, but it's worrying that such a thing is still on the system.
And that is exactly the problem of it all. It might not be a 24-Hour check-in as they had originally planned on, but the fact that they said they were going to patch out all of that..and yet the console can still essentially do it if the game is "coded that way" is troubling. Its like Microsoft saying "No, see we took it out, but the game makers are using it!". Its not so much whether Microsoft makes it mandatory or not, its rather that the console still has the functionality to do it. Plus, its the proverbial hangnail for that whole "game sharing" they announced at E3.Genocidicles said:
Its the same reason i dont like EA's Origin, when that came out, it was essentially spyware with a EULA that basicly allowed them legally to scan your whole computer for your dog pics, porn and whatever else. They revised the EULA and stated that Origin wont do that anymore, but i doubt the program isnt capable of it anymore, so like the Xbone, its one flipped switch away from having all that shit back essentially.
I'm still pretty sure this bug isn't related to the 24 hour rated DRM and is instead the normal downloading digital games on a friends console DRM that we've established above probably exists on the PS3 and PS4 too.A-D. said:
But if we assume it was, when Microsoft said they were going to patch it out, I never thought they meant they were physically going to remove the code, because I assumed it was going to be a giant messy thing interlinking lots of different systems. I always figured they were going to right a new piece of code that automatically tricks the Xbox into thinking the check has been made. I don't see why that would be a problem.
*Also when we're saying it's a bug, we're not saying that something in Killer Instinct is making it happen (at least I don't think so), we're saying the operating system is bugging out. So I don't think it's necessarily the case that a game developer could 'accidentally' trigger it