Roaming. Microsoft stated that with the (now dead model) if I went to someone's house with an X1, I could login with my gamertag and have fully access to all of my games immediately to play there.
I still don't think the change came because they care for their customers, it's because they saw the massive crater where their profits would be.
If anything, this shows that voting with your wallet can actually work. Hopefully it's not too late for them.
And why wouldn't that still work?
Doesn't change anything for me though. I don't want a kinect, period. If they offer me the console sans kinect, at the price point of the PS4, I buy it. Plain and simple
As of now, I still am going PS4 only
i personally would much rather have that so i can continue to redbox games and sell em on craigslist/fs if i so choose to.
Why does "no resale" matter to you? The previous system MS proposed also had "no resale." The fact that they've reintroduced resale for one group of consumers and you're bummed that it might not include you... that's just odd. Everything else; downloading games, running discless, that all seems like it should be relatively hassle-free and convenient for you.
He has to bring the discs! Wahhhh.
And why wouldn't that still work?
I think you misunderstood my post. The previously announced system has the 'inconveniences' of no resale and online requirements. These weren't things that bothered me, and I was willing to give them up. Now, however, I am forced to disc swap or use bandwidth to download every game. I currently don't have a bandwidth cap, but Comcast may reinstate it. And @250gb a month, I will have to watch what how many games I download and possibly alter my streaming habits. I average over 500gb a month currently, but I do a lot of broadcasting a stream, watching streams, watching Netflix, and downloading games that release. If 5 PC games come out and 5 Xbox Games, that is quite a lot of data I have to download.
With the previous method, this was alleviated at the expense of things not mattering to me. My internet is stable and I don't resell games. This also punishes people with slower connections and absurd datacaps (like in AUS and the EU) and forces them to have to use the discs as we currently do, which is archaic coming from PCs.
Roaming. Microsoft stated that with the (now dead model) if I went to someone's house with an X1, I could login with my gamertag and have fully access to all of my games immediately to play there.
W/o the required internet, the Kinect is really a non issue. Maybe the price will be, but...
Except I was planning on doing digital distribution for everything. No discs to bring with. Instead of having my cake and eating it too, I now have to pick.
They can't do that if it is available offline, then two people could be playing at once. That was the original point of this whole check in every 24 hours thing.
At least someone gets it.
With them having already stated every Kinect feature and functionality can be turned off, there is really no reason to bitch about it other than it increasing the price of the console. But, I'm sure some people will still find a way.
I get it, it's just that you can do the exact same thing if you buy it on Live, or you have to bring the discs if you buy physical.
Roaming. Microsoft stated that with the (now dead model) if I went to someone's house with an X1, I could login with my gamertag and have fully access to all of my games immediately to play there.
Full access to all of your games after they were downloaded to the new Xbox. Which takes, what, a couple hours? If your friends had DSL, you could walk to the moon and back in the time it would take to download a game.
I'm fairly certain you will not be able to do that. If they have an offline mode then multiple people could be playing it in multiple places at once which is why the 24 hour check existed in the first place.
You act like the price difference of $100 is like nothing. I wipe my ass with $100 bills after I drive my Ferrari but I'm not going to give another $100 to MS that I don't have to
Yep, I am. That is the single reason I modded my 360. That was a feature I was looking forward to and they are removing it because a bunch of troglodytes cry about change.
And also, baby smacker - Comcast doesn't have that 250 GB cap currently. It's been suspended for the last 6 months plus so that is a non issue that you are making an issue
They suspended it longer than 6 months ago, but are testing a new datacap of whatever in certain areas currently. If you think the datacap is going away for good, you're a moron. And a lot of EU and AUS have much lower datacaps. So, this isn't a non issue for quite a lot of people.
AND I love how I am called out for "making a non issue and issue" about datacaps that are happening but no haters get called out for the "omg what if Xbox Live shuts off in 8 years?"... yeah.
Wait, so EVERY xbox one game needs to be authenticated with a server in order to play? Even if you don't copy it to the HDD? Why? That's not good. Not good at all, especially if you want to gift it to someone from a different country or if you don't have internet access. I had no idea but, if true, this sucks.
So your only reason is a lame "OMG I NEED TO GET MY LAZY ASS UP OFF THE COUCH AND PUT A 1OZ DISC IN THE TRAY!!!!"
Sucks to be you I guess.
At least now if I keep my console and decide...hey I wanna go back and play Killer Instinct, I can without it saying "server error"