Xbox One games will need to check in online, possibly once a day

I think I'll simply upgrade my PC !!!

So what if i don't turn my Xbox on for a day or my internet is down for a day or more? What then? It hasn't checked in for 24 hours or more!

"Gamers can calm down; we’ve got you surrounded". Always online and unclear secondhand or I guess second account fee policy. What about different user accounts on a shared by all xbox one? is every account owner required to pay a fee when he tries to play a game on the HDD registered to a family member account. I guess Micro$oft is stupid enough to dictate that. Micro$oft is the next tyrant.

"Gamers can calm down; we've got you covered."

You don't a damn thing "covered" MS. Fvck, you guys suck so much lately...

How could Microsoft turn their backs on their armed forces customers, with their intermittent internet required policy? Really! how the hell am i supposed to enjoy my off time when Im out at sea?
Edit (4 minutes)

"For single-player games that don't require connectivity to Xbox Live, you should be able to play those without interruption should your Internet connection go down."

But when asked how long players can go between having to check in online with a single-player game, Harrison said, "I believe it's 24 hours."

What kind of bullshit double talk is this? So glad I'm getting a PS4. I can't believe Microsoft would literally go out of their way to make the experience of owning a console so painful.

Those check ins is a rampage decision..

weve got you covered. no you dont.

I don't understand how MS hasn't figured this stuff out already, this is obviously one of the things that people are worrying over they should be able to give a definitive answer on it day one, none of this "I believe so" nonsense.

Its amazing how alot of you didnt read the entire article.

Who knew XONE had hotel service also.

Lol: "designed to be expanded and extended by the Internet". Expanded? Extended? How is making the machine kill itself if it loses its internet connection an extension or expansion?

Imagine if a doctor took a healthy person and operated so that they needed life-support to survive. Is that what MS means by "expanded" and "extended"?

"There have been reports of a specific time period--those were discussions of potential scenarios, but we have not confirmed any details today, nor will we be."

MS are testing the market research waters as long as backlash remains strong they wont implement any of these scenarios at launch but that's not to say they wont 6 months after when people have invested. T&C's lol

By requiring that the console "check in" every 24 hours they have pretty much told every gamer in the military that they don't matter. Out on deployment for up to 9 months and you have an expensive paperweight after the first day, yup that sounds like it's worth a good chunk of money. If Sony comes out with something even remotely similar I will be staying with the current generation of consoles and my PC.

Okay, this is nothing but junk

don't buy it people

Okay, I understand that you need online verification to install your games in order to prevent piracy. But why, in the name of God, does the X-Box One need to verify your game AFTER you've already linked it to your account? Am I reading this wrong?

So if we want to play the system we have to check in to the internet to play even single player games, at least that's what I took from it. But the only thing I say is WHY? You didn't even explain why that's supposedly required. I guess the bigger issue is just the fact that you need internet. That will lose them quite a few sales.

Yep. People who buy this console are going to be reamed hard.

+Internet required to play games.

+Carry a game over to a friends place to play? Gotta pay a fee when you get there. And pay another fee to play it again on your home console.

=This console is looking crappier every time I read about it.

FUCKING LIARS.... so basically its fucking always online and all the rumors are fucking true.

Why am I getting the feeling that MS is hiding something important from us in regard with the 2nd-hand / used games and gamers will not like it very much!? The Internet check-in at regular basis is essentially a form of always-on requirement to me. I hope I am wrong, but things certainly don't look good here. Sigh..., videogaming is more and more complicated and restrictive.

WTH MS, my god. I hope sony announces some similar garbage so I can be completely firm in switching to PC and never look back.

WTH ? Do I have to get every single Xbox 1 game out of the closet every 24 hrs and run it for a second just so I don't lose ownership of it and saved content and so on ? WTH is this ? I don't understand !

All right Microsoft, you've convinced me not to get your console. Happy now?

Case in point, if you don't have an internet connection, you will probably, in some way, be screwed with this console. I may just wait and go with Sony. If Microsoft had more console exclusives, they could probably pull something like this off. No halo, Gears of War, or even a decent franchise? I think Microsoft is going to regret giving the edge to Sony .

So what is the deal with the 24 hour period? That seems like a pretty lame compromise between always online, and never online. Does this mean that your single player game becomes unplayable if you don't check for updates every 24 hours, or you lose your game progress? What the hell? There seems to be something shady going on here, just not sure what exactly.

i have always been a console gamer, not a pc gaamer, i think the 360 would be my last TV console. both ps4 and xbox 1 seem to have kinect like features, i love gaming but i enjoy my privacy more.

This console is starting to remind me of how I felt when Def Jam: Icon was coming out a while ago...

Every time I saw a preview of that game, I felt worse and worse about it. And of course when the game finally came out, it was so bad that it got its studio closed, and deservedly so, IMO.

The xbox one here is on the same track unfortunately. I feel worse and worse about it with every article I read. So far, the ONLY thing that I've seen that I like is Forza 5, and I'm even skeptical about that because it's supposed to be a day one launch title, and those never turn out as good as they could have been. This thing just keeps going down hill. At this rate, it may not matter what they announce at E3, because by then, it may already be buried.

**** you Microsoft. Play this shit by yourself. Actually where is my old PS2? Seems like I still did not complete even a half of RPGs from that console. And looks like I didn't even need money, internet and in-game gold to play it. HD? Camera? Online service? Share? **** you Microsoft.

yes gamers ! you can play your games ! But you will play them how WE tell you to play them! mwa hahaha

is their any good news about this console

"No, you don't always have to be connected," he said. "Gamers can calm down; we've got you covered."

It's already be stated. Everyone calm your hormones down.

Seems like M$ is confused about what a constant connection is or maybe it was just Harrison. lol

"We got you covered"??

Covered in what, microsoft dung?!
One thing is that they implement this idiotic system, but that they actually have the balls to go out and claim that their box doesn´t require you to always be connected?! it´s an outright lie! It does require you to be connected, ALL the time. And don´t anyone come here and tell me that this isn´t always-on, because it is. It just allowes some room for momentary losses of signal.

LMFAO,Xbox is just asking to come in Last Place lol.

ok...so what if i go out of town for a week. would someone have to go into my house just to turn on the console so it can function when i get back? wtf

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! guess im switching over to PS4

Are they serious? "For single-player games that don't require connectivity to Xbox Live" So why the hell do we need to be connected online for something that you stated doesn't need to be online?