[QUOTE="captainzornan"]Too little too late. They didnt care at all about the outcry a month ago but now that they see its costing them hard cash in terms of preorder numbers they wanna get in our good graces. Microsoft just told us a week ago that if we dont want 24hr check ins the 360 is for us. So forget them and their smug arrogance. They basically told us tough poo a week ago and are now saying oops. Maybe they should be asking us to forgive them and apologizing and not putting out some garbage "thanking us" You needed E3 and millions of rants to tell you DRM and online checks were a bad idea. THe 300 people that bought bionic commando 3years ago would tell you how terrible drm is let alone what happened with simcity just this year!XboxGuy1537
How is it too late? The consoles don't come out for another 4-5 months. This was a smart business move by Microsoft. They listened to the consumer and are willing to change their policies. There is no reason to be complaining about this. This is good.
While Xbox One's policies wouldn't have affected me as an end user, the arrogant DRM policy was enough to have me decide not to get the Xbox One. Now that they've pulled a 180, I may pick up one after all. I'm a big fan of Halo and I like the direction the franchise is going. It's nice to know that I might actually get to play the next game. What Microsoft didn't get is that there are also people like me. I buy games and just add them to my library. A vast majority of my games were bought brand new however, should I ever want to either sell the game or give one away, the thought of that type of restriction makes me feel like I did back when I had a timeshare. That was not a good feeling. From a business perspective, Microsoft should have seen this one coming from a mile away. Sony is going to start charging for online play just like XBL yet no one would give it another thought given that they were able to capitalize on Microsoft's DRM fiasco. Shame on you Microsoft for not taking advantage of the changes coming to Sony's next console. You took an opportunity and changed it to a black eye.
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