Petition wants Microsoft to bring back Xbox One's DRM

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A petition on Change.org wants Microsoft to bring back the original DRM policies for the Xbox One, saying to "give us back the Xbox One we were promised at E3". The petition cites how the original policies would have made the Xbox One's game store and library like "Steam for Xbox", but "consumers were uninformed" which eventually lead to the DRM policies being reversed.

"This was to be the future of entertainment. A new wave of gaming where you could buy games digitally, then trade, share or sell those digital licenses. Essentially, it was Steam for Xbox. But consumers were uninformed, and railed against it, and it was taken away because Sony took advantage of consumers uncertainty.

We want this back. It can't be all or nothing, there must be a compromise."

This petition follows Microsoft's reversal of their original DRM policies for the Xbox One. Controversially, the Xbox One originally needed to connect to the internet every 24 hours to verify that multiple users weren't accessing the one copy of a game; games that would have been permanently linked to your account, stored on your console or in the cloud, and shareable with up to 10 other people.

Following Sony's announcement that the PS4 wouldn't have always-online or game sharing restrictions at E3, and a public outcry from "uninformed" members of the public, Microsoft reversed these policies. This means that the console essentially operates the same as the Xbox 360, where games are not linked to your account and still require the physical disc to play.

Currently the petition has around 6,000 supporters out of a needed 7,500.

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Source: http://www.neowin.net/news/petitions-wants-microsoft-to-bring-back-xbox-ones-drm

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DopestDope_EvaPosted:

i personally never had a problem with it, but the fact your cant see your games (which i never really did) annoyed me. i wish M$ would make a decision and stick with it.

HoytVolkerPosted:

ps4 will takeover xbox if this happens lol

DummazzPosted:

KarmaRambo
F2_Karrma
KarmaRambo
F2_Karrma
2014
bigchukka
2014
bigchukka Anyone that signs this has issues.
It's not living in the past wanting no DRM.
The Negatives out weigh the positives.

You want loads of restrictions so you can have a digital library "not moving of the couch"


I'm pretty sure I don't have 'issues', I am willing to accept the future. "If you do not accept the future you will be left behind" -Sean Parker


They can do the digital library without DRM and other restrictions. It's just a simple feature it's NOT the future. If you believe a online library is the future your living in the past.

-bigchukka


I shall quote again, "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you will have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in the future." -Steve Jobs

No wonder he isn't here today


That is by far the worst comment I have ever seen on this website.
I used to think the fanboys attacking eachother were bad.

Are you really going to mock someone who is dead? You most likely own one of the devices that Steve Jobs' company created.
You should be ashamed of yourself, I'm 15 years old and know better than that.
Don't try and act like some angsty kid who's angry at the world and is so controversial. Disrespecting dead people is wrong, regardless of who it is.

Jesus don't blow up at me were not in Boston XD


You're like one of those kids on CoD that scream profanities when they die, but when they kill someone tell them that they are terrible.
There's a difference between being funny and being downright disrespectful. How would you feel if a family member or friend was at Boston that day? Think before you type, keyboard warrior.


I thought I was the only person who actually thought the ideas for the DRM were cool because to me it felt like Steam... and the future of gaming.
I didn't understand why people didn't want the future to happen. If people would have allowed the DRM policy to take place the future would come faster...

But now basically anyone who is technically savvy gets the crappy end of the stick. Were left with modern crap... Embrace the future guys, if you didn't like futuristic things and modern was good enough for you, you shouldnt have complained and instead just got the PS4. But instead you ruin it for the rest of the population of gamers.


F.Y.I.
I'm not a fanboy, I just know that Microsoft has always strived for futurism such as the start of xbox live on the Xbox Original... I feel like that everyone forgets how crappy and clunky the PSN is currently.
Coming from someone who started from the PS1, Nintendo 64, and SNES.(Sadly I missed the NES generation).
To the PS2.
To the Xbox.
To the Xbox 360.
And will be the Xbox One.
When I see that the Playstation has something worth buying again I will buy it. By the way I used to love Sony and Nintendo. Each platform brought me a different character that I love....

Whether it be Banjo Kazooie, Mario Kart 64, and Goldeneye; to Spyro, Crash Bandicoot, and Legacy of Kain(Soul Reaver that is); to currently my favorite Master Chief and Marcus Fenix...

So as my conclusion lets remember where we started and how we used to pick a console it was based off of which games and the experience and thats how it should be still.

Now who else is craving for a new Master Chief(would still love more Halo games don't get me wrong) and Marcus Fenix. So lets stop fighting and demand that their be no more exclusives.

AyrPosted:

F2_Karrma
KarmaRambo
F2_Karrma
KarmaRambo
F2_Karrma
2014
bigchukka
2014
bigchukka Anyone that signs this has issues.
It's not living in the past wanting no DRM.
The Negatives out weigh the positives.

You want loads of restrictions so you can have a digital library "not moving of the couch"


I'm pretty sure I don't have 'issues', I am willing to accept the future. "If you do not accept the future you will be left behind" -Sean Parker


They can do the digital library without DRM and other restrictions. It's just a simple feature it's NOT the future. If you believe a online library is the future your living in the past.

-bigchukka


I shall quote again, "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you will have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in the future." -Steve Jobs

No wonder he isn't here today


That is by far the worst comment I have ever seen on this website.
I used to think the fanboys attacking eachother were bad.

Are you really going to mock someone who is dead? You most likely own one of the devices that Steve Jobs' company created.
You should be ashamed of yourself, I'm 15 years old and know better than that.
Don't try and act like some angsty kid who's angry at the world and is so controversial. Disrespecting dead people is wrong, regardless of who it is.

Jesus don't blow up at me were not in Boston XD


You're like one of those kids on CoD that scream profanities when they die, but when they kill someone tell them that they are terrible.
There's a difference between being funny and being downright disrespectful. How would you feel if a family member or friend was at Boston that day? Think before you type, keyboard warrior.


I just have a different taste in humor than you nothing wrong with that


Everyone enjoys dark humour sometimes, you're just trying to be edgy online.

OmittingCoderPosted:

F2_Karrma
KarmaRambo
F2_Karrma
KarmaRambo
F2_Karrma
2014
bigchukka
2014
bigchukka Anyone that signs this has issues.
It's not living in the past wanting no DRM.
The Negatives out weigh the positives.

You want loads of restrictions so you can have a digital library "not moving of the couch"


I'm pretty sure I don't have 'issues', I am willing to accept the future. "If you do not accept the future you will be left behind" -Sean Parker


They can do the digital library without DRM and other restrictions. It's just a simple feature it's NOT the future. If you believe a online library is the future your living in the past.

-bigchukka


I shall quote again, "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you will have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in the future." -Steve Jobs

No wonder he isn't here today


That is by far the worst comment I have ever seen on this website.
I used to think the fanboys attacking eachother were bad.

Are you really going to mock someone who is dead? You most likely own one of the devices that Steve Jobs' company created.
You should be ashamed of yourself, I'm 15 years old and know better than that.
Don't try and act like some angsty kid who's angry at the world and is so controversial. Disrespecting dead people is wrong, regardless of who it is.

Jesus don't blow up at me were not in Boston XD


You're like one of those kids on CoD that scream profanities when they die, but when they kill someone tell them that they are terrible.
There's a difference between being funny and being downright disrespectful. How would you feel if a family member or friend was at Boston that day? Think before you type, keyboard warrior.


I just have a different taste in humor than you nothing wrong with that

I gotta admit. That Boston one was good.

EqualisePosted:

Yeah why would you want the xbox one to get worse by bringing back the DRM

2014Posted:

lG34Rl_K1LL3R This is shocking i bet it's all the fatty's wanting this so they only gotta go to shops for food oh wait theyre that lazy they probably get shopping delivery...
Honestly the DRM policies ruined the Xbox One that's why they reversed them dom mattrick Fk'd up big time then he pu**ied out and moved to zynga . Then microsoft fixed it all and they made mega great changes and now you fatty's out there are gonna try reck it for others because of ur lazy ass. Get on a tredmill mate :) .

-K1LL3R


I'm not a 'fatty' I'm skinny and I signed this. Also, your post is almost impossible to read get Windows 8 and some spellcheckers :)

F2_KarrmaPosted:

KarmaRambo
F2_Karrma
KarmaRambo
F2_Karrma
2014
bigchukka
2014
bigchukka Anyone that signs this has issues.
It's not living in the past wanting no DRM.
The Negatives out weigh the positives.

You want loads of restrictions so you can have a digital library "not moving of the couch"


I'm pretty sure I don't have 'issues', I am willing to accept the future. "If you do not accept the future you will be left behind" -Sean Parker


They can do the digital library without DRM and other restrictions. It's just a simple feature it's NOT the future. If you believe a online library is the future your living in the past.

-bigchukka


I shall quote again, "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you will have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in the future." -Steve Jobs

No wonder he isn't here today


That is by far the worst comment I have ever seen on this website.
I used to think the fanboys attacking eachother were bad.

Are you really going to mock someone who is dead? You most likely own one of the devices that Steve Jobs' company created.
You should be ashamed of yourself, I'm 15 years old and know better than that.
Don't try and act like some angsty kid who's angry at the world and is so controversial. Disrespecting dead people is wrong, regardless of who it is.

Jesus don't blow up at me were not in Boston XD


You're like one of those kids on CoD that scream profanities when they die, but when they kill someone tell them that they are terrible.
There's a difference between being funny and being downright disrespectful. How would you feel if a family member or friend was at Boston that day? Think before you type, keyboard warrior.


I just have a different taste in humor than you nothing wrong with that

AyrPosted:

F2_Karrma
KarmaRambo
F2_Karrma
2014
bigchukka
2014
bigchukka Anyone that signs this has issues.
It's not living in the past wanting no DRM.
The Negatives out weigh the positives.

You want loads of restrictions so you can have a digital library "not moving of the couch"


I'm pretty sure I don't have 'issues', I am willing to accept the future. "If you do not accept the future you will be left behind" -Sean Parker


They can do the digital library without DRM and other restrictions. It's just a simple feature it's NOT the future. If you believe a online library is the future your living in the past.

-bigchukka


I shall quote again, "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you will have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in the future." -Steve Jobs

No wonder he isn't here today


That is by far the worst comment I have ever seen on this website.
I used to think the fanboys attacking eachother were bad.

Are you really going to mock someone who is dead? You most likely own one of the devices that Steve Jobs' company created.
You should be ashamed of yourself, I'm 15 years old and know better than that.
Don't try and act like some angsty kid who's angry at the world and is so controversial. Disrespecting dead people is wrong, regardless of who it is.

Jesus don't blow up at me were not in Boston XD


You're like one of those kids on CoD that scream profanities when they die, but when they kill someone tell them that they are terrible.
There's a difference between being funny and being downright disrespectful. How would you feel if a family member or friend was at Boston that day? Think before you type, keyboard warrior.

lG34Rl_K1LL3RPosted:

This is shocking i bet it's all the fatty's wanting this so they only gotta go to shops for food oh wait theyre that lazy they probably get shopping delivery...
Honestly the DRM policies ruined the Xbox One that's why they reversed them dom mattrick Fk'd up big time then he pu**ied out and moved to zynga . Then microsoft fixed it all and they made mega great changes and now you fatty's out there are gonna try reck it for others because of ur lazy ass. Get on a tredmill mate :) .

-K1LL3R


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