Chip N Chance
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Can someone answer me this? With most of the DRM stuff gone now, can i still install games to my hard drive and play without authenticating it with a physical disk?
ICECOLD!!
I guess it was like: "yeah you bought all those 3rd party E3 exclusive showings just for nothing"
Why would an Xbox One OS dev on Reddit talking about trashed features through ambiguous, overarching statements have any reason to mislead me?
Can someone answer me this? With most of the DRM stuff gone now, can i still install games to my hard drive and play without authenticating it with a physical disk?
I don't buy the "family plan" answer. At all.
He says he won't say anything that may identify him, but then says he cannot talk about anything regarding the family plan-that-was-to-be.
Why? How could that possibly identify him if the plan was a robust, fully developed feature that certainly everyone would know about? Why would Major Nelson promise a blog post that never came while they 180'd? How come the actual details never surfaced afterwards, other than saying "it was full games! We promise!"?
I. Don't. Buy. It.
Can someone answer me this? With most of the DRM stuff gone now, can i still install games to my hard drive without authenticating it with a physical disk?
It's the same wording the used all along "full games". Yeah, those are the full games and not demos. Yet you still can only play them 1 hour.
Can someone answer me this? With most of the DRM stuff gone now, can i still install games to my hard drive and play without authenticating it with a physical disk?
Oh man. Are you actually suggesting DRM means cheaper prices? Your scenario happens today, without DRM. The benefit now? We are not locked into that disk purchase indefinitely and the disk will work regardless of authentication servers provided the game itself does not require internet like an MMO, MP, etc. The game will persist without DRM and check-ins.Some benefits were really handy if you ask me.
Buy cheapest physical copy if digital is more expensive.
Link it to your account and throw away the disk.
Im mostly a pc gamer maybe that is why i have preferences digital > physical.
Hell i lost most of my previous disk and casettes anyway im way to clumsy and loose disks easy.
Can someone answer me this? With most of the DRM stuff gone now, can i still install games to my hard drive and play without authenticating it with a physical disk?
Again with this.
I don't buy the "family plan" answer. At all.
He says he won't say anything that may identify him, but then says he cannot talk about anything regarding the family plan-that-was-to-be.
Why? How could that possibly identify him if the plan was a robust, fully developed feature that certainly everyone would know about? Why would Major Nelson promise a blog post that never came while they 180'd? How come the actual details never surfaced afterwards, other than saying "it was full games! We promise!"?
I. Don't. Buy. It.
It's probably something that would begin only with Microsoft Studios titles, followed by third parties later. The very fact they said it wouldn't be available at launch suggests it's a little more than just demos, doesn't it? Anyone can download a demo.
I don't buy the "family plan" answer. At all.
He says he won't say anything that may identify him, but then says he cannot talk about anything regarding the family plan-that-was-to-be.
I have no idea why Kinect 2 adds so much cost. I'm really confused by that. The Kinect 1 cost breakdown wasn't really all that much. Maybe he's figuring in the development costs not just the build costs?
X1 would be much less without the Kinect?
Take in out then and give us a cheaper option then for fucks sake.
It's probably something that would begin only with Microsoft Studios titles, followed by third parties later. The very fact they said it wouldn't be available at launch suggests it's a little more than just demos, doesn't it? Anyone can download a demo.
Could you link to any demonstrations of those benefits or concrete promises?Yea, and there were benefits. Benefits that we no longer have. I don't care what anyone says.
I was joking. Obviously it's not 'full games' full games like some people apparently still want to believe.
The family plan answer is the number one reason why i don't think this AMA is truly "unofficial" at all. Most of the answers are pleasant enough, though totally not risky, and there isn't anything that sheds any unfavorable light on microsoft at all through the process. this is pretty unusual- even the best employee has SOME constructive criticism for his boss.
the family plan answer specifically says nothing about one of their most controversial features other than the party line. "it was full games, we promise." but nothing else relevant.
I like the AMA, it's a much better PR effort than what's come before ("we have an offline console. it's called the Xbox360." "specs don't matter." etc) but still is very much the company lines in different packaging.
Not when a demo is a random section of a game and the sharing was most likely the exact first hour of a title.
Ha also said he wouldn't break any NDA.
At the moment, I don't think there are many reasons to believe in the 1-hour restriction. We only got a single, shady "source"
A source who's been right about practically everything he's posted since appearing on GAF. He's easily as legitimate as this Reddit guy.
Why would an Xbox One OS dev on Reddit talking about trashed features through ambiguous, overarching statements have any reason to mislead me?
Thanks to everyone who replied to my question. I do believe it was a feature pre DRM Reversal. Damn man, I really wanted that to be the case. I should state that i was all for the DRM stuff, but now i'm bummed.
Maybe its just dependent on your life style. My internet has gone out for more then 24 hours probably once in the past 9 or so years. And i like owning physical copies.
Thanks to everyone who replied to my question. I do believe it was a feature pre DRM Reversal. Damn man, I really wanted that to be the case. I should state that i was all for the DRM stuff, but now i'm bummed.
Maybe its just dependent on your life style. My internet has gone out for more then 24 hours probably once in the past 9 or so years. And i like owning physical copies.
All you are going to get at this point is this: http://tinyurl.com/kcc9zj6I wish Sony would comment on the noise level of the PS4.
Why would MS still be spinning the DRM stuff? I mean, the battle is pretty much over and most people don't care anymore.
On the other hand the spec stuff people still care about.
Why would MS still be spinning the DRM stuff? I mean, the battle is pretty much over and most people don't care anymore.
On the other hand the spec stuff people still care about.
Again with this.
For some reason this made me more hyped for Kinect One.
And now I'm left wondering what could have been if they focused on building a powerful system like Sony instead of including Kinext.
The only source I know is a pastebin message. Has it been confirmed by someone on Gaf ?
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The account on Reddit also mentioned that the reason he is posting an AMA is to remind people that the people that work at Microsoft are human and that they aren't all evil.simple. Right now their biggest problem isn't the PS4, or the launch price, it's that core gamers who were paying attention in venues like Reddit, NeoGAF, or similar forums perceive microsoft as having tried to force some extremely noxious policies on gamers.
Right now the PS4 is currently preferred something like 80-20 among the core among any poll you choose to look at, and this is why.
Getting those potential customers back starts with spinning DRM as not a soulless, cynical money grab in which microsoft assumed we were all thieves, but instead a friendly policy that would have allowed us to share games among ourselves without restrictions! who doesn't love that? and it was full games, we promise! but you'll never see it because you didn't give us a chance to explain it!
[Ryse reminded me of darksiders II.
And now I'm left wondering what could have been if they focused on building a powerful system like Sony instead of including Kinext.
If he is one guy in a team of 1000 (don't buy that) working on the OS, why would he have information on the cost of producing both the APU and the kinect sensor?
I like how he mentioned that the console was designed to have Kinect ubiquitous to the platform. That developers have this assurance means we should finally be seeing some more interesting use of the device.
The account on Reddit also mentioned that the reason he is posting an AMA is to remind people that the people that work at Microsoft are human and that they aren't all evil.