Submitted by Prcko 393d ago | news


Microsoft's Phil Spencer has shed some light on the severity of the Xbox One's online check-in, and it may not be as severe as many have feared. (Phil Spencer, Xbox One)

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Crazyglues  +   393d ago

This does not benefit consumers in any way..

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vishmarx  +   393d ago
its a stupid idea..
i could live with it but
its coupled withn too many others
NewMonday  +   393d ago

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JokesOnYou  +   393d ago

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JoySticksFTW  +   393d ago







"wait for the reveal" then



I guess now it's


I'm not saying act crazy, but stop giving free passes.

darkride66  +   393d ago



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darthv72  +   393d ago
it sounds like
a ping type of test.

bicfitness  +   393d ago
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And I have been here since 2005 as well.
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BattleTorn  +   393d ago


IOW, not tethering, but opening an app.
badz149  +   393d ago
"kilobytes, not megabytes"


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doctorstrange  +   393d ago
Hmm, but what about the half-cloud rendered games?
hazelamy  +   393d ago
which ones are they then?

yugovega  +   393d ago
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snake_eater  +   393d ago
Micro$oft being douchebags as always
DxTrixterz  +   393d ago

ApolloTheBoss  +   393d ago
Yeah that makes feel so much better.
aiBreeze  +   393d ago
Yeah that makes feel so much better /s

Protagonist  +   393d ago
What is the point with the check-in???
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giovonni  +   393d ago
It's to make sure your system hasn't be illegally modded or taking advantage of modded games. Many think its ms looking to start some sort of gaming holocust, but it's been implemented because people started to modded the 360 and burn 360 games, so a measure has to be taken to stop this kind of thing.
sjaakiejj  +   393d ago
Lol, except that the people at Microsoft know very well that this will be circumvented within the first few months the console is on sale.
Protagonist  +   393d ago
Thanx for the reply, because I honestly had no Idea, besides it being a hastle.
giovonni  +   393d ago
So I guess ms should just let hackers modders and people take advantge and have their way because the consumer feels a few seconds of an Internet check once a day is unfair? So if you were a business you wouldn't protect your investment?
zeal0us  +   393d ago
To be a hindrance to legitimate buyers.

The pirates and hackers somewhere down the line will figure out how to bypass it. Thus proving its just another useless method that doesn't do squat.
giovonni  +   393d ago
But whose legitimate ? There are more people that will take advantage of a situation then those who wouldn't. Ms has billions of customers. You think they are going to just leave their system open? There has to be measures to protect the investment. That's why there are penalties on all products we buy. Just because you brought it doesn't mean it's out right yours you can do whatever you want.

Man please, if I could get away without having to pay for product because the company was to dumb to set something in place I'm taking advantage. Lets cut the whole "din tah da dinnnnnn!" " Super loyal consumer man"act out. This is the reason why xboxone is using drm... Please share a better idea
zeal0us  +   393d ago

Legitimate buyers are the ones who go out and spend their hard earn money on a product. There isn't more people taking advantage of the situation then those who wouldn't. Piracy and modding on the 360 wasn't high and still isn't.
The DRM is in place more for profit than it is for security.

Ubisoft a years ago said that their games on the PC were getting pirated 93-95% of the time. This was while they had their always-online drm in place. A month or so later Ubisoft ditches the always online requirement. Now if their games were getting pirated 93-95% why on earth would they remove the always online drm? I willing bet piracy wasn't the problem but more of slow sales. Companies like Ubisoft are quick to using piracy and used games as a scapegoat.

If I could get away without having to pay for a product because the company was too dumb to set something in place, I would still go out and buy the product like I always have and will continue to do.

Also don't tell me to share better ideas when the company you're so willing to bend over for, can't do the same. The 360 has over 77million console sold worldwide. Microsoft said 40million have experience Xbox Live. So that leaves ~37million never getting on XBL.

So now Microsoft is leaving ~37million of its consumer base behind just because of what piracy, used games or some other poor excuse.
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BattleTorn  +   393d ago

It's so Microsoft can say to all their advertising constituents, and service providers, that their (always-online) users WILL see their invested-advertising.

Microsoft wants to be able to compare the equally community of Playstation, and say to the service providers (netflix, nfl, EA, ect) that Sony doesn't have a "compariable" community, cause a unknown portion of their units sold are hiddenn (offline), and not connected.
And then say, "but ours! Ours have to see your ads. They have to check-in - 100% of our units will see your services"

There ya have it, people - the truth.
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grassyknoll  +   393d ago
How about not at all?
Vip3r  +   393d ago
Still not the point MS.

Also, found this kinda funny.

BattleTorn  +   393d ago
Heh...... smh
Moonman  +   393d ago
Who seriously is pumped to buy this thing?
doctorstrange  +   393d ago
Steve Ballmer
from the beach  +   393d ago
I'm pumped - Dead Rising 3, Forza 5, Ryse, Killer Instinct. Day one.
zeal0us  +   393d ago
Consumers who don't know any better
Consumers who like to buy the latest tech
Hardcore fans who the next Halo, CoD and Gears or other MS exclusives and time exclusives titles
JeffGUNZ  +   393d ago
I will be buying it. I will also be buying the PS4. For me, the online requirements are nothing at all since I am always connected anyway. They did impress me with their lineup so I am eager to play those games. I am also eager to play the games I saw on the PS4. I'm in the situation where I can afford both so I will do what I did this gen. and get both consoles and get the best of what each has to offer.
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BattleTorn  +   393d ago
Believe it or not, I am. (getting both, take it easy on me)
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talocaca  +   393d ago
It worked wonders for Simcity and Assassins creed....so why not?
DxTrixterz  +   393d ago
This is what X1 exacly is.

mushroomwig  +   393d ago
A fellow Redditor.
DxTrixterz  +   393d ago
Nah I found that one in one of the ign comments.
franko  +   393d ago
It will need 0 (zero), cause i ain't getting that crap.
inf3cted1  +   393d ago
PS4 will need nothing
Godmars290  +   393d ago
No, its going to need online. Its going to be a better console with online.

But the difference is that the PS4 doesn't *absolutely* need online. Can function perfectly fine without it. When it does have access to online however, you its owner are rewarded for it and Sony gives you incentives for using it.

Online is not a sign that MS owns you.
Baka-akaB  +   393d ago
Who the hell expected it to be heavier ? A parole officer could be the neighbor , the ex-con still wont be happy about having to check in .
BlazeXXL  +   393d ago
This is a matter of principle for me. Fuck you MS.
hazelamy  +   393d ago
then where's the fucking benefit?
why does it even need that?

you're not actually getting anything by having your console connected.

there's no real benefit other than you giving people permission to use their own property.
that's not gonna be enough for background patching and updates is it?

no that's a fucking artificial requirement you twats invented.

hell, if there was any actual benefit to needing to be online, you'd need it all the time, not just every 24 hours.

take this console, turn it sideways and shove it up your arse, you and mattrick both.
NegativeCreepWA  +   393d ago
It allows for discless play, which connects to the seemless experience of multi tasking and playing multiple games at once. The console is built around a seemless experience.
LightofDarkness  +   393d ago
You just said a whole load of nothing. That's marketing babble, and it is as far removed from reality as much of the rest of the magical unicorn fantasy-land that is XBO's "cloud" promise.

It is a DRM measure. Nothing more. If you wanted to allow for discless play, you allow users to install to the HDD and that's it, just like the current 360 does, and PC games have allowed for decades.

The "cloud" movement is just software and service companies trying to own your data and have you pay for the privilege.
JeffGUNZ  +   393d ago
@ LightofDarkness.

That's not how it works at all. On the 360, you have to have the game in the disc drive even when it's downloaded to the hard drive. The Xboxone removes the requirement of having the disc in the drive and to do that, they need to have DRM. DRM is stopping one person from buying one game, installing it on their hard drive, and then giving it to his friends who do the same thing and the game keeps getting spread around for free. One $60 game turns into 100+ free games after that without DRM to prevent it. It's glaringly obvious MS will be drifting to digital downloads only sometime this generation if they are requiring a DRM connection at launch. I understand peoples complaints and I am not saying I agree or disagree, but that's the facts behind it and why they are doing it.
hazelamy  +   392d ago
who plays multiple games at once?

you mean like Halo on the tv while playing tetris on a gameboy, while also simultaneously playing Plants Vs Zombies on a tablet?

if you're doing that, you should probably contact the Guinness book of records people.

are you saying all this drm nonsense is so i don't have to swap discs?

are ms buying into the fat lazy american stereotype that much?

i'd rather get up and swap over the disc when i want to play another game, and also run the game from the disc.

and i'd also want to still be able to play my game when ms shut the servers off, whenever that will be.
kneon  +   393d ago
Without the mandatory check there would be nothing to prevent you from installing the game and handing the disk over to someone else to install on their machine.

All this pain just so we don't have get off our fat asses and waddle over to the console to insert a disk.
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Baka-akaB  +   393d ago
Why something prevented discless play on ps3/360 while offline ? nope .

I've yet to hear any advantage that arent "EA autolog" styles . mmo type of games ? they were always going to require online so ... where is my incentive for say FFXV or any solo game ?

It's there , people will deal with it , or not , but a benefit ? Nah , or they poorly explained it so far
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sjaakiejj  +   393d ago
What about the games that use "The Cloud"? Dead Rising 3, Forza 5, Halo 5.. Will we be able to play those with phone tethering? Will those only require kilobytes?
Igniter  +   393d ago
I really see this check in requirement to be a marketing strategy. MS is using this to guarantee developers that they can leverage the on line and cloud services because every Xbox One will be connected. To me this is avoiding the problem created with the 360 and its with/without HDD options.
I think MS will announce in a couple of months when everything is quiet that the requirement has been extended to 48 hours or more.
JeffGUNZ  +   393d ago
I see this as them getting their foot through the digital download door. The money it will save to distribute their games digitally would be significant. That's why MS is stating they are targeting people with internet. In 3-5 years I expect it to be a digital download only console.
dazzrazz  +   393d ago
kilobytes /bytes doesn't matter I aint gonna be checking in shit, time to switch !
TechnicianTed  +   393d ago
It could need Trilobites for all I care, I still don't like the idea MS.
komp  +   393d ago
lol... trilobites... :)
Sadist3  +   393d ago
Check ins don't affect me, because I have online at my house. I'm always online, so who cares? That's like saying I'm not going to subscribe to Netflix because I have to be online to watch it. People just sound stupid when they complain and cry about it.
FunAndGun  +   393d ago
So do a lot of people who are against this change. There is a bigger picture here that you might be too dim to grasp.
Coolmanrico  +   393d ago
Your whole statement is hilarious. First you talk about how the check in don't effect you because you're always online so Who cares? Well Basically everyone without a connection to the internet should care or people who want to still be able to play their games if or when they won't have a internet connection. Just because you have the privilege of being always online don't mean the rest of the world has it as well.
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Godmars290  +   393d ago


Please, please, let them be taught a lesson. Don't allow stupid consumers let them sell 100 million units in ten years. Don't let them sell ten million in ten years.
Baka-akaB  +   393d ago
Seems like everyone need a lesson in humility every third home console released .
coolmast3r  +   393d ago
It doesn't change the fact you need stable constant internet connection.
LOL at Microsoft, they can't stop excusing themselves...
Chrono  +   393d ago
PS4 does what Microdon't.
just-joe  +   393d ago
You need to not treat you customers like criminals.
swerve121  +   393d ago
Lets be honest most of the customers are white collar criminals. Just cause you dont get caught doesnt make you not be a criminal. Pirating is Stealing no matter how you look at it
just-joe  +   393d ago
No shit it's stealing, but guess what? Pirate will find a way around it, because they weren't gonna buy the game to begin with. The only people this effect are people who legitimately bought their game, so what's the point of having a system that doesn't even work right?
Gigaguy777  +   393d ago
So Dial-Up can check in? Wow, wasn't expecting that. That's pretty awesome.
ThyMagicSword  +   393d ago
I'm pumped to see the greytone (xbox One) fail day after day, honestly. Isn't this enough theatre now? If I wanna see These things, I can also go to the circus. Online everywhere... on toilet too. They merely deserve to end in shame...
unchartedxplorer  +   393d ago
I just saw the entire webpage covered in
PS4 ads. Lol
creized1  +   393d ago
LOL no one gives a flying F*ck if it is kilobytes or megabytes Microsoft! I aint gettin your console even if you gave it to me for free.
pabadamus1  +   393d ago
They just don't get it. No one cares how few bits or bytes it takes for X1 to phone home. The issue is that it does it at all. People with and without Internet access are taken aback by this elitist, arrogant and assuming stance. Why should we have to tether our phones to make this thing work if the Internet is not available? We should be moving towards a future where gaming is more accessible and even more inclusive. People of all economic, cultural, geograpical and infrastructural backgrounds should be able to play if they buy the console. I am not stupid and I do know what is coming. This will all change in the generations to follow as we are inevadably thrust into an always online environment. Msoft would like us to believe that they are vanguard in this initiative and that their efforts are altruistic and solely for our benefit, but their tactics are nothing more than a heavy handed attempt to destroy our rights as consumers. Hubris and success can be an intoxicating thing and right now Msoft is drunk.
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