My point being that you can't use the disc as a "licence dongle".
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My point being that you can't use the disc as a "licence dongle".
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Why not?
Game has to either contact the servers every 24 hours or have the disc in the drive.
If you sold the game then you wouldn't have the disc in the drive?
Game has to either contact the servers every 24 hours or have the disc in the drive.
If you sold the game then you wouldn't have the disc in the drive?
Like you said, either.
Say I install the game and have my XBox connected to the net. If the disc can act as a "licence dongle" wheat's stopping me giving the game to someone and them always using the disc to play?
We would both have full access to the game.
Say I install the game and have my XBox connected to the net. If the disc can act as a "licence dongle" wheat's stopping me giving the game to someone and them always using the disc to play?
We would both have full access to the game.
Link?
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Oh I see what you mean now. Well they could have the game require online check for installation (noting that you already have it activated on your account and stopping your friend installing it)
As far as I can see it there is no way to have a digital library without some level of online requirement (outside of some messy archaic phone system perhaps)
As far as I can see it there is no way to have a digital library without some level of online requirement (outside of some messy archaic phone system perhaps)
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I just can't see it, to do everything they've said in that link would mean getting rid of all the benefits they've talked about :/
Their PR has been TERRIBLE so I can't see them suddenly having even a slight bit of common sense.
Anyone heard of Giant Bomb before? Reliable?
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This is the Windows 8 start button all over again 
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Giant Bomb is a big site so I'd be surprised if they were just making it up. It's whether their source is reliable.
Also being reported here
http://www.whathifi.com/news/microsoft-to-back-track-on-xbox-one-games-drm-and-always-online
http://www.whathifi.com/news/microsoft-to-back-track-on-xbox-one-games-drm-and-always-online
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