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Apple's ecosystem is not closed. You can buy digital music from other places and the files can be used on an iPhone/iPad/etc etc. Places such as Amazon and whatnot. I don't think their music files have DRM.
 
Will the xbox one recover in time? that's the question after all the negativity the console received from its DRM, always online, can't rent, can't lend, region locked BS .

from this stunt it'll be no doubt the PS4 WILL outsell the Xbox One during their Launch, but will the xbox recover? and if it doesn't recover? what'll happen to xbox? mostly nothing .. however what Microsoft should do is Plan their next step to recover from this.. More exclusives maybe? who knows
 
that's a lot of laughing. Not a shock that Mattrick got fired, Adam Orth did, for his tweets he made.
 
This is going to make for an interesting read one day.

How one of the main person behind the Xbox One just months before the console release leaves.
 
Will the xbox one recover in time? that's the question after all the negativity the console received from its DRM, always online, can't rent, can't lend, region locked BS .

from this stunt it'll be no doubt the PS4 WILL outsell the Xbox One during their Launch, but will the xbox recover? and if it doesn't recover? what'll happen to xbox? mostly nothing .. however what Microsoft should do is Plan their next step to recover from this.. More exclusives maybe? who knows

I think they shouldn't have given in to people, they could have taken the best parts of their original plan and changed the parts that people didn't like. So if they had kept the ability to play games without the disc along with the family plan and then add back in the ability to play offline forever and share and sell games then I think it would have been a much better solution.
 
I think they shouldn't have given in to people, they could have taken the best parts of their original plan and changed the parts that people didn't like. So if they had kept the ability to play games without the disc along with the family plan and then add back in the ability to play offline forever and share and sell games then I think it would have been a much better solution.

We are definitely on the same page there. I really belive that the future of gaming is going to be digital only, with no used games.
 
It definitely will, but I think there should be no online requirement ever for things that don't actually need it. The 24-hour checkin thing was just stupid because they could have verified ownership easily by requiring the disc in the drive for offline play. Then it would have been an incentive to connect online because then you could play without having to switch discs.
 
FYI, "Defense Grid: The Awakening" is available for free download. I downloaded Fable III last month although I doubt I'll ever play it. I guess M$ is trying to catch up to Sony with the free downloads. :lol
 
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Microsoft may extend its Games With Gold program beyond Xbox One's launch, director of programming Larry Hryb has suggested.

Responding to Reddit users disappointed by yesterday's choice of free game, Hryb explained that he was "sorry about the disappointment.

"Not sure how people started to assume that [Halo 3] and [Assassin's Creed 2] were coming in July. I thought it was pretty clear in the briefing, but I guess not that clear."

But when asked whether the service could be extended beyond November, Hryb replied: "Anything is possible. We'll see how the program goes."

Games With Gold was launched to compete against Sony's PlayStation Plus program. However, the initiative was only due to last until Xbox One's release this November.

Microsoft announced yesterday that Defense Grid: The Awakening would be free to all Xbox LIVE Gold users this month, following last month's free copy of Fable 3.
 
I think they shouldn't have given in to people, they could have taken the best parts of their original plan and changed the parts that people didn't like. So if they had kept the ability to play games without the disc along with the family plan and then add back in the ability to play offline forever and share and sell games then I think it would have been a much better solution.

The family plan might not have been all that it was made out to be. According to that supposed Microsoft employee who blogged about the features of the Xbox One, the "family plan" was just a timed trial for trying out games you didn't own. In other words, you'd be able to play the game for about an hour or so, before you're prompted to a checkout page to purchase the full game.

The concept souds very much like the timed trials offered offers by PS Plus (except without sharing features).
 
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The family plan might not have been all that its made out to be. According to that supposed Microsoft employee who blogged about the features of the Xbox One, the "family plan" was just a timed trial for trying out games you didn't own. In other words, you'd be able to play the game for about an hour or so, before you're prompted to a checkout page to purchase the full game.

The concept souds very much like the timed trials offered offers by PS Plus (except without sharing features).

I remember hearing about that. Its a demo. Nothing more. They never sold it like that though.
 
I remember hearing about that. Its a demo. Nothing more. They never sold it like that though.

MS just didn't do a good job of selling this console at E3. If they were more forthcoming about things, they wouldn't have received a lot of the back lash thay did.
 
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MS just didn't do a good job of selling this console at E3. If they were more forthcoming about things, they wouldn't have received a lot of the back lash that did.

True. They couldnt have handled this whole thing any worse if they tried.
 
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