Kotaku: Xbox 720 online required to start up and play games!?

[Black_Jesus]

What's wrong with being online while playing single player?

Whats the point??

 

[ahomeplateslugger]

microsoft has been looking bad this gen so far

 

[GoldenGlove]

Whats the point??

To interact with my friend's list and see what games they're playing... I might want to play some matches of something with them when I'm done with the game I'm on.

Just basic communication stuff. Sony is implementing that share feature so people can stream their gameplay with their friends while it's going on too.

People on Xbox Live play campaigns and chat with friends in party chat all the time.

I just don't see the point of going out of your way to logout of PSN or XBox Live while playing a single player game.

 

[TH29]

I can't believe some of you all are defending this. On principle alone it is horrible. Like Loose said what positives are there for this. I can't think of any for why a system should always have to be connected just for you to access your games. How does requiring you to always be online enhance the user experience in the least bit...smh.

 

[Mowgli]

People gonna praise microsoft if they backdown off the DRM but secretly microsoft will hate you and will find a way to get that loss back.

 

[Khalil's_Black_Excellence]

To interact with my friend's list and see what games they're playing... I might want to play some matches of something with them when I'm done with the game I'm on.

Just basic communication stuff. Sony is implementing that share feature so people can stream their gameplay with their friends while it's going on too.

People on Xbox Live play campaigns and chat with friends in party chat all the time.

I just don't see the point of going out of your way to logout of PSN or XBox Live while playing a single player game.

All well and good. But likewise, I don't see the point in forcing folks to be online just to play offline games either. Nor the point of anyone even loosely defending or making light of it when there's practically no positives, yet a slew of potential negatives.

 

[MightyHealthy]

 

[Romell]

Very shortsighted of them to just assume everyone has a good internet connection or connection at all to require it. This especially sucks for a lot of people if that means Xbox live continues not being free.

 

[Hip-Hop-Bulls]

neogaf got me dying

 

[GoldenGlove]

All well and good. But likewise, I don't see the point in forcing folks to be online just to play offline games either. Nor the point of anyone even loosely defending or making light of it when there's practically no positives, yet a slew of potential negatives.

They're doing it to in order to make it harder to play bootlegs on their console.

And I'm not really defending it, I'm just not blowing the shyt out of proportion when I know mostly everybody in this thread probably wasn't going to buy an Xbox regardless of what they did, and the potential "slew" of negatives wouldn't effect them anyway.

I don't like it because of it's implications on the used game market... you know something that actually matters to me. Not playing a game offline when I practically never EVER do that.

 

[winb83]

I can't believe some of you all are defending this. On principle alone it is horrible. Like Loose said what positives are there for this. I can't think of any for why a system should always have to be connected just for you to access your games. How does requiring you to always be online enhance the user experience in the least bit...smh.

its a disgusting practice for the consumer but i see a reason from a business standpoint to do it.

i'm not going to refuse to purchase this because it has a standard i exceed that other people can't meet.

this isn't Microsoft's first anti-consumer act. the company has a history of doing such things. several months ago i had to call a damn hotline to move my copy of Windows 8 from my old computer to my new build and enter some long ass code to let them allow me to do it.

 

[Khalil's_Black_Excellence]

All well and good. But likewise, I don't see the point in forcing folks to be online just to play offline games either. Nor the point of anyone even loosely defending or making light of it when there's practically no positives, yet a slew of potential negatives.

They're doing it to in order to make it harder to play bootlegs on their console.

And I'm not really defending it, I'm just not blowing the shyt out of proportion when I know mostly everybody in this thread probably wasn't going to buy an Xbox regardless of what they did, and the potential "slew" of negatives wouldn't effect them anyway.

I don't like it because of it's implications on the used game market... you know something that actually matters to me. Not playing a game offline when I practically never EVER do that.

I hear you. The used game market doesn't directly affect me as much ATM, but I can see the negatives just the same. All in all, either or are pretty shytty practices. Just the tip of the ice berg in the grande scheme of things.

 

[Hip-Hop-Bulls]

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[marcuz]

I can't believe some of you all are defending this. On principle alone it is horrible. Like Loose said what positives are there for this. I can't think of any for why a system should always have to be connected just for you to access your games. How does requiring you to always be online enhance the user experience in the least bit...smh.

being paranoid myself, i gotta problem with a system that has a camera facing you along with an internet connection that's always online. that shyt doesn't even sound right to me.

 

[marcuz]

Very shortsighted of them to just assume everyone has a good internet connection or connection at all to require it. This especially sucks for a lot of people if that means Xbox live continues not being free.

i feel bad for my struggle brehs who might not be able to pay their internet bill on time

dudes getting they internet shut off for delinquent payment, thinking they'll just play some video games in the mean time.