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Xbox 180: Microsoft Fully Reverses Xbox One's DRM Policies
- veidr 13y agoI think this story is more interesting than 7 points and 0 comments. (Not the Wired article, but the underlying story.) It was a collossal fuckup for Microsoft -- but only because Sony made the right moves. If Sony also tried to impose daily internet-check DRM on its users, and decided to bar them from being able to loan or rent games, then there would have been a ton of grumbling, but it wouldn't matter. But since Sony decided to weaponize this issue and announce they were doing none of this stuff, and aggressively mock MS for it, they scored what appear to be real hard body blows against MS, and came out of it looking great. Even though MS has now reversed all its controversial and objectively user-hostile ideas, a lot of the tarnish wills stick to it and the next-gen Xbox. (Disclaimer: I'm not a gamer, I just think this has been a really interesting business story.)