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Digital Foundry: Hands-on with Xbox One
Poland and Portugal not supported at Xbox One launch, importing near ruled out
Microsoft kills game ownership and expects us to smile
Which is fine and dandy, I don't like daily validations either.
However, in a download-only model, what's stopping the user from purchasing a ton of games on his account, get a second console and log his account / download his games and then give it away to a friend, instructing him to not connect it to the net ever again? Reply +1
How do you propose a download-only license model would work, if not by constantly validating ownership? If you have no disc to bring to a friend's house, isn't it convenient to log in XBL from his Xbone and access your games right there? Reply 0
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@PenguinJim
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Whether we like it or not (I, for one, do not) the industry is moving towards a download-only model. What Microsoft is doing right now is no worse than having such a model.
Do you honestly believe that we would purchase & download a game and not have our account validated constantly afterwards? That there would not be similar restrictions?
This whole mess could easily be avoided if the checked the drive for the disk existence, before validating ownership through the account, Why don't they do that? Because they are prepared for a disk-less future.
Once the available bandwidth and streaming technology has evolved to the required level, we will only access and play our games library directly from the publisher's servers (or the, sic, "cloud")), having only temporary data stored to our device. How's is this different?
Sure, people will vote with their wallets and the Xbone (hate that name, feels that it desperately needs an "r" at the end) will either fail spectacularly or not, but this is a glimpse of the future and we'd better be prepared for it. Reply -4
Microsoft moots IllumiRoom with next Xbox
Tomb Raider: Underworld retrospective
I promise I'll get through it after the reboot one :rolleyes: Reply 0
Assassin's Creed 3 patch kills save-wipe bug, readies your game for Tyranny
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the tower defense game was in Revelations, not Brotherhood... Reply +3
The Walking Dead dev offers season pass to those with 4GB Xbox 360 issues
Once again, EG forum to the rescue... Reply +11
Games of 2012: Halo 4
If you cannot appreciate other people's preferences and choices, I'm afraid the joke's on you, my friend... Reply +32
Enormous Xbox Marketplace sale starts next week
Judging by past end-of-year sales, it's probably not exclusive to gold subs. Reply +1
Dark Souls 2 officially announced
Xbox set-top box out before Christmas 2013, according to a new report
After 70 days awaiting trial, jailed ArmA 3 devs refused bail
As a fellow Greek, I couldn't have said it better myself.
To the two developers and their families and friends, you all have my sympathy and I truly hope this gets resolved as soon as possible.
To the rest of you, who make insulting, sweeping generalizations about us Greeks, just remember that what goes around comes around. Greece is only one of the P.I.G.S. (as so cleverly put by the media) and I honestly don't see many EU economies (like Great Britain's or France's) strong enough to hold the crisis flood once it's loose, so austerity could be knocking on your door next... Reply +6
Zone of the Enders HD Collection launches in the UK next month
Be warned: you may have to play through Dark Souls again to access the Artorias of the Abyss DLC
So, I guess, NG+ *feels* easier, but it probably has more to do with the fact that the player is more powerful, better equipped and reasonably careful against certain enemies. Reply 0
Lost Humanity 16: Size Doesn't Matter
/gets coat Reply +1
Lost Humanity 15: Booth Babes
I'm here all week, folks. :cool: Reply -5
Mass Effect Trilogy Edition won't have a FemShep cover
Sony: Wii U tech "something Vita and PS3 can do quite easily"
Revisiting Black Mesa
ArmA dev confirms: staff arrested, accused of spying by Greek authorities
I don't know about the specific installations in question, but, in general, such warnings do exist in military and aircraft bases here in Greece. Reply +16