Mircosoft, Xbox One, KI tournament fail.

[S3M]

Saw this on Polygon, said it all for Xbox One's DRM being removed. I know I've seen a few people complain about other games.

http://www.polygon.com/2013/12/18/5223200/killer-instinct-tournament-derailed-by-xbox-one-drm-check

The fun starts at 6:34 KI requires a online only connection or checks every X many hours it appears. News like this need to get more coverage as Eurogamer seem to be ignoring the issue.

[speedlolita]

This is hilarious.

Cannot believe there is such an oversight.

[Brad]

Ban this sick filth

[nakamura]

And you lot wonder why I'm not overly positive on modern gaming.

[Brad]

I share your concerns. However, Microsoft are not being allowed to dictate the direction of modern gaming luckily.

[Guts]

No sign of the One/Next-gen defence league? Come on Team Andromeda!

[fishbowlhead]

Oh dear

[Team Andromeda]

No sign of the One/Next-gen defence league? Come on Team Andromeda!

Couple of things : I don't own the game and I don't like the series at all. All I will say is that bugs and oversights have been a part of gaming since the dawn of time I really doubt it's the 1st time a fighting game has crashed be that online or offline or even in the Arcades Capcom CP3 system was prone to crashing after all, hence why they and Arcade dropped the system and I dare say KI in the Arcades had issues with bugs and Hard Drive crashes now and again

[capcom_suicide]

It's not all good on the blue side either. Even after all games are installed, you still can only play the game with the BR in the drive, which for remote play is a royal PITA.

But for Killer instinct, well yeah I guess it's DRM. I can't play my 360 Arcade games without internet connection, it's been like that since I swapped my third or forth RROD machine I think. No internet = no play.

[Profit]

It's not all good on the blue side either. Even after all games are installed, you still can only play the game with the BR in the drive, which for remote play is a royal PITA.

Surely that is to prevent rampant piracy.

[capcom_suicide]

Surely that is to prevent rampant piracy.

I would have thought you could have "Registered the game" and then "De-registered" before trade in personally. Digital watermarking or an activation code or something. I guess it would be tricky to maintain..

[fishbowlhead]

I would have thought you could have "Registered the game" and then "De-registered" before trade in personally. Digital watermarking or an activation code or something. I guess it would be tricky to maintain..

Does the drive remain spinning or does it simply spin the drive up, check the disk is legit then spin down?

[Family Fry]

Wait wait wait, hold on.
POLYGON are reporting this now?
Man. This story is beyond a joke.

[speedlolita]

Does the drive remain spinning or does it simply spin the drive up, check the disk is legit then spin down?

I assume as it was with PC games about 10 years ago. I don't think it spins the disc up, or it does it so little that you don't even notice.

Of course though, on PC you could just download a dodgy exe file and circumvent that most of the time.

[Brad]

I would have thought you could have "Registered the game" and then "De-registered" before trade in personally. Digital watermarking or an activation code or something. I guess it would be tricky to maintain..

MS were planning exactly this. Well, except YOU wouldn't be able to de-register, only special MS approved shops could do that and to be fair, that was the only problem with the system.