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19 Jun 2013, 4:43 pm

Misery wrote:

The fun part will come from watching what my various die-hard Xbox fan friends do when it releases. Will they avoid it? Or will they break down and buy one, despite so many complaints about the whole thing lately?

My friends are already resigning to the fact that they'll be collecting trophies instead of achievements.

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19 Jun 2013, 4:58 pm

BREAKING NEWS: According to IGN Microsoft will not do DRM or online. Link to the article can be found here: Xbox One Reversal

My thoughts:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V7QWknxeFc[/youtube]

PS Try to watch the WHOLE video.

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19 Jun 2013, 5:04 pm

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BREAKING NEWS: According to IGN Microsoft will not do DRM or online. Link to the article can be found here: Xbox One Reversal

But I...just posted...Hehe.^^;

Anyway, yes this is good news. Hopefully more good news will come forth.

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19 Jun 2013, 5:34 pm

RW665 wrote:

TheWadeSmellbringer wrote:

BREAKING NEWS: According to IGN Microsoft will not do DRM or online. Link to the article can be found here: Xbox One Reversal

But I...just posted...Hehe.^^;

Sorry man but on the bright side I can buy a Xbox One now and not feel guilty.

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19 Jun 2013, 5:42 pm

TheWadeSmellbringer wrote:

RW665 wrote:

TheWadeSmellbringer wrote:

BREAKING NEWS: According to IGN Microsoft will not do DRM or online. Link to the article can be found here: Xbox One Reversal

But I...just posted...Hehe.^^;

Sorry man but on the bright side I can buy a Xbox One now and not feel guilty.

It'alright, I was just joking around. Yes same. This kind of brightened up my day.

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19 Jun 2013, 5:59 pm

Well, it's a bold move by Microsoft, but it still requires Kinect. I'll still be buying a PS4, though.

Maybe they should rename it the Xbox 180 :lol:

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19 Jun 2013, 6:42 pm

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"After a one-time system set-up with a new Xbox One, you can play any disc based game without ever connecting online again," Microsoft wrote. "There is no 24 hour connection requirement and you can take your Xbox One anywhere you want and play your games, just like on Xbox 360."

I can hear their spokeperson in my head, slowly and deliberately muttering these words, their voice, wavering with the sound of defeat.

I like how they chose their wording to sound like "You guys helped to make XBox One even better than we could have imagined" instead of "You guys all threatened to put us out of business and now we are begrudgingly forced to revoke our DRM.........until we feel secure enough to take the risk of a mandatory firmware update a year or two down the road...please don't hate us, please please please come back"

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19 Jun 2013, 6:55 pm

TheWadeSmellbringer wrote:

BREAKING NEWS: According to IGN Microsoft will not do DRM or online. Link to the article can be found here: Xbox One Reversal

And here I thought this couldnt possibly get any more hilarious.

I was wrong.

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19 Jun 2013, 8:51 pm

Oh, Xbox One is so horrible - just horrible.
I'm still getting the PS4 - shifty behavior is still shifty behavior.

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19 Jun 2013, 9:24 pm

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I hope the xb1 tanks, but it may end up reaching cult system status for all the wrong reasons.

It could become a cult system that needs to be hacked to get the games to play on it when they shut off the servers, because it would be basically an elaborate Blu-Ray player, without the servers.

Which is just one more reason why I'm not a fan of the One. Since the dawn of console gaming, people have been able to enjoy games on their old systems long after the gen they are from ended. I mean, sure, some games that are heavily multiplayer based will not be the same once their servers are shut off, but single player games(and single player modes of games) have always worked just fine years down the road. As far as I'm concerned, game systems should not go bad like a piece of salmon, yet that's exactly what will happen with the One.

I like playing older games and I got a clone console that can play NES, SNES, Sega Genesis cartridges and use the original controllers from those systems for my birthday.

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19 Jun 2013, 10:58 pm

Not buying. I only own an Xbox 360 (though in no way am I a Microsoft fanboy), and the Xbox One honestly, on paper, looks like fail. Oh, and they're basically marketing toward what they think are gamers: upper-class single people who have one room dedicated to gaming and spend much of their day gaming. Not me, because most gamers aren't like that.

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20 Jun 2013, 1:56 am

Hansgrohe wrote:

Real gamers usually have a nice HDTV in their bedroom to play video games privately with nobody around most of the time. This is what I do with my PS3 and Nintendo Wii-U.

Very casual-gamers play in the living room with other people around watching while they're sitting far away from the screen. Those types often play video games just once-or-twice a week at the most for an hour or less.

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20 Jun 2013, 4:06 am

greengeek wrote:

Tross wrote:

greengeek wrote:

Tross wrote:

I hope the xb1 tanks, but it may end up reaching cult system status for all the wrong reasons.

It could become a cult system that needs to be hacked to get the games to play on it when they shut off the servers, because it would be basically an elaborate Blu-Ray player, without the servers.

I like playing older games and I got a clone console that can play NES, SNES, Sega Genesis cartridges and use the original controllers from those systems for my birthday.

Same here, definitely into retro consoles.

Bought a 7800 finally after wanting one for years, quite happy with it. Aside from the part where it grips the cartridges like a vice.

It just pushes me even further away from current consoles when I realize that the games on THERE can hold my attention, as well as provide me with enough challenge to keep my interest (easy games put me to sleep), but the games on today's consoles for the most part can do neither.

I will however continue to follow all Xbone related news, in case more hilarity happens.

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20 Jun 2013, 10:43 am

I think that with this victory over MS we need to go one step further. Getting MS to fire Don Mattrick for that whole "don't have online then buy a 360" stupidity. Seriously how brain dead of a businessman do you have to be to not look at sales data and realize most people already have a 360 and the large chunk of people who want to buy XB1 already own a 360.

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20 Jun 2013, 1:52 pm

LOLOLOLOL Microsoft.
They changed their entire policy on internet connection and used games.

"Since unveiling our plans for Xbox One, my team and I have heard directly from many of you, read your comments and listened to your feedback," Microsoft's Don Mattrick wrote. "I would like to take the opportunity today to thank you for your assistance in helping us to reshape the future of Xbox One. You told us how much you loved the flexibility you have today with games delivered on disc. The ability to lend, share, and resell these games at your discretion is of incredible importance to you. Also important to you is the freedom to play offline, for any length of time, anywhere in the world."

"We listened to our consumers" ROFL.

There has been hate on Xbox's new features for months. A week after E3 PS4 pre-orders massively outnumbered that of X1. That's when they decide to change their policy. The only reason they did is because they realized consumers wouldn't buy their piece of crap.

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20 Jun 2013, 8:01 pm

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Yup, and it's bloody hilarious.

I think "LOLOLOLOLOL" really does sum up the whole thing rather nicely

Even more hilarious though (and kind of pathetic) that people essentially had to SHRIEK this stuff at them for a couple of weeks for them to even remotely grasp it.... I mean, it should be obvious to anyone with more than half a braincell, right....?

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