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Microsoft Rolls Back Xbox One DRM Policy

The new policy kills family game sharing and would work as it does on the Xbox 360.

 

After attracting a lot of criticism about the DRM policy announced with the Xbox One at E3, Microsoft has finally announced a roll back to the policy. Under the rules, the Xbox One required internet connectivity at least once in 24 hours, and some restrictions had been made on sharing of used games. While gamers have been weighing this against the Xbox One when compared to the Sony PS4, this roll back brings with it some bad news too. Some of the cool new features will now be removed from the next gen console.

With this new announcement, internet connection is required only once during the initial setup. You can play the games (disc-based and single player) for as long as you want, and you can share them as you do with the Xbox 360. But the downer is that downloaded games cannot be shared or resold. Even the 10 person "family" game share has been killed, along with the linking of your Xbox Live account for both digitally downloaded and disc based games.

IGN also reports that with these policy changes, the Day One update for the console has to be downloaded for everyone to take advantage of these changes.  

Microsoft Rolls Back Xbox One DRM Policy


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