Giant Bomb Reax! Xbox One DRM Revised

Proof that "internet rage" can actually change the world. Now about that Prism stuff...

It's so crazy to see Patrick have being credited on sites like Time for breaking this. Good job, Patrick.

Don't forget all the tech writers(except for those at Tested) that have consistently shit on 'whiny' consumers since this news broke out today.

Guys? Steam?

Guys! Steam!!!

Dave Lang! Watchugot to HIDE!? Patrick can I have your magnificent beard?

Reax? :P

God I love these guys.

Awesome job Scoops, but if what we see is more of this when you move to Chicago I'm a little hesitant. After all, we don't need the website to go down every week because of you. Also, I was very glad to see the majority of game journalists congratulating Patrick on Twitter after Microsoft made the announcement. The few who tried to pass off the "our story" line though...

awesome that Giantbomb and especially Patrick, were the first to report this complete 180 by Microsoft. I knew it would eventually come, but for it to come this fast makes it so much sweeter. Microsoft saw they were on an island by themselves, after Sony told the people they wouldn't limit like Microsoft was doing, Microsoft would've have to of been psycho to keep the DRM stuff. because Nintendo, no matter how small they are, was the first ones to keep it the same, and then Sony stays with the same policy, and with out this 180 they were looking to lose a ton of customers, so bravo Microsoft. #ShotsFired #TheWarIsOn

He also broke the story on West and Zampella getting fired from Infinity Ward.

Fucking nuts.

He's reported first on a couple stories, I believe. The Infinity Ward saga post MW2 being the most notable.

@donpixel: i liked the idea of being able to play games from different sources without disc's in the system , my pc can do it , and it doesn't have 24 hr drm . and being able to switch between games with a voice command was cool . they lost their only selling point for me !

i preordered just in case o.o

Congratz, Scoops, on finally breaking a story.

I was not expecting them to do this due to the fact of what Patrick said; there was infrastructure in place on Microsoft's end to support all of this and now that's all been thrown out the window.

Totally and completely blown away by this. No one is safe from the Interview Dumpster.

@heatdrive88 said:

Somebody 'shop this pic so that they're on fire.

BIG. PLAYS.

Badass Patrick. Badass. :D

Do you think that any company out there selling you games is doing it because it's "for the good of gamers". They ALL do it for the money. Companies don't run on hopes and dreams. They all are trying to sell you goods to put money in the companies pockets.

You heard it here first. I will bet that ~month or so from launch MS will announce a subsidized $299 XB1. It will be easy with MS stores going in every Best Buy.

Kinda weird that the guys clearly didn't even read the entire announcement since they were wondering if the digital sharing "family/friend" stuff was gone.. it clearly says at the bottom "These changes will impact some of the scenarios we previously announced for Xbox One. The sharing of games will work as it does today, you will simply share the disc. Downloaded titles cannot be shared or resold." So yea, everything they announced previously is gone, read the whole thing guys :X

Anyways, I agree that the timing of this announcement on the same day as Sony's big fuck up with bricking some PS3s can not be a coincidence. They were probably sitting on this waiting for a good chance to announce it and Sony handed it to them on a silver platter. Microsoft saw an opportunity to kick Sony in the balls and they took it, just like Sony did to them at E3. Shit is gettin downright crazy, both sides are fighting tooth and nail for this, no holds bar. As the customers, we can only benefit from this craziness.

Honestly, even if you ignored all the negative feedback they were getting, they had to do this I think, if you looked at what they were saying about the digital games sharing with the "family" stuff, where people could potentially abuse it and form "families" and take turns buying games and sharing them easily, it was looking like that could kill sales even more than used games did and I think publishers realized this and gave them even more shit behind the scenes.

Anyways, though I'm still on the PS4 side, cause Microsoft will probably find another way to try to fuck us or reimplement some of this stuff, this whole thing makes them look like a mess, ps4 has better indie support, ps4 is still 30-40% more powerful, and xbone is still $100 more, I look forward to the next bomb that gets dropped by either side. /popcorn

I don't know if I consider this as Microsoft "hitting back" as much as them bending over and taking it.

That is the xbox one premise fallacy.. both system can and will run Games without disc. Just buy them digitally.

Actually PS3 and 360 run games without disc as long as they are on their respective store. The whole always online thing, was DRM bullshit plain and simple.

canceled my xbox one pre order , the only thing i liked about the system was it didn't need disc's to play games , might as well save the 100$ and buy a ps4

Patrick, awesome job!

Don't forget Sony's PS3 conference, razielcuts. They had that same arrogance that Microsoft showed this year, having come off of the PS2. Sony is still the same company that would suggest you get a second job to afford their video game console. kentonclay hit the nail on the head. While goodwill is important to these companies, nothing is more important than our dollars.

As for their mentality behind these decisions, you could well be right. We shouldn't forget that this almost happened, and had likely been in the works for years between Microsoft and publishers.

This certainly doesn't 'undo everything Sony did'. Microsoft has still had a PR disaster and back tracking from it with their tails between their legs isn't a great look, but I suppose it was their only move at this point. Scoops comes through with the goods though, nice one man!

Awesome to see Patrick's story getting so much play today. #BigScoops

If this is like the US-American election, does Microsoft now run on a Democratic ticket? Or is Sony the democratic candidate with its liberal views. Does NoDRM mean small government or Consumer Financial Protection Bureau? Metaphors, metonyms, synechdoches, tropes, topoi, hypercorrections. War never changes.

Like Jeff was saying in the video, if this is how crazy things are now; what the hell is going to happen in the next few months leading up to launch?

Someone launches early?

New subsidized pricing models?

Sony throws the camera in there?

Free games in the bundles?

This is going to be a bloody struggle this holiday, and god bless them, everyone. :)

And Sony would stab you in the back if they thought it would ultimately help their bottom line.

If you're only going to deal with companies that truly have your best interest at heart, then you'll never buy anything ever again.

Holy shit balls ! nice work scoops

But what the hell does this mean for the "Cloud" stuff Xbox One games are supposed to use? Single player games are now excluded from those that can take advantage of whatever that was actually going to produce, just in case someone is playing offline. Or will there be an decrease in fidelity when offline gaming?

I'm basing these guesses all off the fact MS were really pushing what they can do with the "Cloud" at E3.

It's actually worse than that. Now you have people coming out saying, "I hope the whiners are happy" and seriously defending the old system. It's preposterous. It's just cool to go against the grain no matter what.

And the hilarious part? If you actually listen to the interviews Microsoft has given about this today, some of the cool features are still there, like the ability to download your games to any console. The only difference is that it's only for digital games now, which sounds fine to me. If you want the benefits of digital ownership, buy digital. I do it now with my PS3 and I can already download my games to other people's consoles. Right now. My old housemate and I used to share games and DLC because he left his PS3 at his mom's house since I already had one.

Bottom line is people are never happy.

(best Johnny Drama impression) Victory!

So, how soon will we see an increase in the cost of games from 60 to 70 dollars from 3rd party publishers? Next Gen day one or a couple years down the road? The people that buy and keep games will continue to pay for everyone else.

He will know be known as Patrick "Fucking" Klepek.

WE WON, MOTHER-EFFERS!

YEAH!!

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I KNOW ALL CAPS IS CONSIDERED UNCOUTH BUT I THINK THIS IS A PRETTY REASONABLE EXCEPTION!!!

@razielcuts: here here!!!

That is tremendous that Patrick was able to break this story, both for the site and for Patrick professionally. Awesome job, Scoops!

Great day for consumers!

Total Biscuit crashed the giant bomb site :) He told people about the ms drm thing while 10k people were watching the TGS... 10k more trying to load giant bomb at once :)

Pat is the man. Damn I'm gonna miss him in office. Glad GB is being put on the map in a major way! (Not that they weren't already there lol.)

Hot scoops.

Last week I decided to buy an Xbox One a year or two after launch. You know what's changed between now and last week? Nothing!

today makes me proud to be paying duder of this site

It'll be a real shame if everybody just says 'Okay Xbox, I'm back on board' and forgets the mentality that drove those decisions in the first place and the staunch hubris that Microsoft showed throughout E3, they are still that company. They didn't back down on this decision for 'the good of gamers', they made it because the money behind the lacking pre orders spoke.

"Your welcome, I'm out!!!" Patrick drops the mic, and leaves San Francisco.

Great job Patrick.

Oh MS you so dumb. I'm still more interested in a PS4 but at least if I ever decide to get a One I won't feel like I'm trading my soul. lol

I was saddened that when I finally read that Patrick was the first to break this story, that Giantbomb was down. I had to read it from a few other sources before I finally had a chance to read the original report. Great job reporting this.

At this time everyone is making a big deal about Microsoft flip-flopping in regards to their policy, but the truth is that in a few years time no one is going to look back on the policies suggested by either company this year as the "make it or break it" moment. While thousands of devoted hard-core gamers are clambering to write on every thread about their issues, the reality is that a system is more dependent on the response of the mass consumer. The hundreds of thousands of units that will move within the first week of each of their launches is primarily based on these mass consumers, and the voice of the die-hard fan only diminishes over time. Though it has been highly entertaining to watch this battle unfold, most of what we are hearing about now have little influence on the future of these systems.