All of the above. Validating your game keys aren't in use elsewhere, as well as checking for, downloading, and installing updates. You don't need to turn the machine on, log in, or anything. When "off", the machine is in a "connected-standby" mode, and can do intermittent low-power things like these internet…
AustinGuy2
AustinGuy2
I don't care about used games. I've never bought one, and never sold a game back. For me, that's a complete non-issue.
Gaming PCs (I have a nominal one, not a super-high-end one) are VERY expensive.
If this article isn't the very definition of being a "Drama Queen", I don't know what is.
The mean just one input... no switching inputs. TV, Xbox games, DVD/Blueray, all on the same TV input.
You don't need to play daily. Or even turn the Xbox One on. There's a background check that you won't even notice.
YOU aren't listening. This isn't an issue. If they take the servers off line, they'll simply push out an OS patch that stops the 24-hour call-home. Jesus. Get it through your thick skull. You're absolutely outraged over your IMAGINARY scenario that MAYBE MIGHT BUT PROBABLY WONT happen some 10-15 years from now. …
I'm not saying YOU can patch it, I'm saying that if MS is taking down the servers, they'll simply issue a patch to remove the 24-hour call home before doing so. There is ample precedent for this. But seriously, this is Microsoft. The chances of them taking down the servers during the nominal lifetime or even years…
Well, be grown up enough to at least admit you don't KNOW it doesn't have value. None of the things you predict will necessarily happen of course. All it would take is a simple patch to allow the games to be played without connection should MS ever take down the servers (and seriously, what is the chance of that? …
Clearly those people won't be buying an Xbox One.
Well no, it doesn't seem like a "horror show" now... that's just ridiculous hyperbole that seems to be concentrated mostly on this site. Jesus, get a little perspective.
You don't think moving to the Steam model will also allow Steam's pricing model to come to consoles? Really?
Oh good grief. 'Cause nobody can disagree with you without being paid to, right? You might want to adjust your tin-foil hat there, bub.
I don't get paid a thing. I do not now and have never worked for Microsoft. But if you can't fathom someone looking at all these histrionic over-reactions and just shaking their heads, then maybe you're the issue... anit-fanboys, haters, whatever you want to call it. Obsessive pre-judgmental jumping-to-conclusion…
Nope. Just a casual Xbox 360 gamer who is kind of annoyed and disgusted by the over-the-top hysteria over what actually amounts to very little change, especially given all the other benefits. Whatever.
Yeah, I'm just not seeing the anti-consumer aspect at all. I'm not seeing any inconvenience or even change to the way I work at all. My Xbox sits where it has always sat since the day I bought it: connected to my TV, my sound system, and the internet. Nothing will change for me.
You might need to adjust your tin-hat a bit.
I'm trying to think of how this will impact me negatively. And I can't come up with a single thing.
Well sure. But don't you think that if console games move to the Steam model, the pricing will follow? Rather than all games being $60 regardless of whether there's 8 hours of game play or 80? The current console model results in so much loss to publishers/developers (they get a zero percent cut of used game sales,…