Xbox One DRM backlash was unfair, suggests Molyneux

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The notion that Microsoft was trying to outright control the online habits of Xbox One gamers is unfair, according to 22 Cans founder Peter Molyneux.

Speaking with TechRadar, the former Microsoft studios head said, “It’s quite an unfair thought that Microsoft are trying to control our gaming, they’re trying to force us to be online all the time. [People] didn’t really think that through.”

Molyneux suggested that perhaps Microsoft was just doing what it felt it had to in order to create a strong long-term strategy, but added that a few mistakes gave the public an opening to unfairly savage the company.

“I know Microsoft,” he continued. “I know they were only doing things because they thought they were long-reaching and long-thinking. But the world we live in now is that we have to realise, especially if you’re a big corporation, if you make one step wrong, the world will leap on you, and unfairly, very unfairly, they will judge you.”

“Like everything else in our world, when something turns slightly bad it goes very bad and you have to make big correctional steps to get yourself back on track.”

He concluded, “Microsoft did the reversal and we should have all turned round and said ‘fantastic, you’ve really listened to what we’re said’. But you have to over-correct to get back on line.”

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Source: http://www.vg247.com/2013/08/12/xbox-one-drm-backlash-was-unfair-suggests-molyneux/

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United501Posted:

I completely agree. The DMR would not have affected me in anyway. And most of the people that complained about it probably wouldn't have been affected either. Without a doubt in the next 6-7 years or whenever the next generation of consoles come out after these, everything will be online whether people like it or not. Would have been nice to get a head start on what it would have been like.

CHPPosted:

i actually like DRM, it would have made some things easier and advanced gaming i think.

TollPosted:

This is what I have been saying! Microsoft did some things we didn't like. But they listened to what we had to say and did what they could to make us happy! I am fine with stuff now! They fixed my biggest problem of getting on Live every 24 hours!

GossipPosted:

I dont think Microsoft should've changed it.

TidePosted:

It needed to be changed, and I'm glad it did.

Vex-Posted:

DRM was stupid but I don't think it was unfair.

LWRPosted:

I've never heard of 22 cans or Peter Molyneux before

JigeePosted:

It's for the best they changed it. People may not realize it, but with DRM you don't own a single game you pay for, you are paying for the license to play that game.

YinPosted:

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zredstarv2 Do any of you actually know what DRM is? Many of you don't care if DRM exist or believe it makes the gaming community stronger. DRM basically means you do not not own your content, you are given the privilege to use their content. If your account gets suspended for 1 week, 2 weeks, a month, or forever all well. If console gets per-ma banned all well. what if you move to a new house, and it takes 6 weeks for the only internet provider to extend their bandwidth all well. what if you cannot play your new game that does not support PVP and the servers are messed up all well. What if some ddoser floods your router and literally breaks it all well. What if Your second house out in the country can not get internet ever all well. What if some pissed off hackers crack into an online gaming community and leak information forcing the company to unplug their servers for several weeks all well. What if someone steals your email and recovers your account all well. All of these things have happened to me in my 9 years of online gaming. Some of you have experienced the same or worse. Thank god none of these company's supported DRM, well except for one company:(. I don't live in a third world country, we don't have earthquakes or hurricanes, I'm not a traveler or solider. I live in Dallas-Fort Worth the four largest metroplex in the United States, and sh** happens. I should a least be able to play my games offline in peace while I wait for my internet to come online. I get pissed off when people actually stand up for these evil corporations. Microsoft may have changed their policy's to make gamer's happy, but I do not trust them because they can change their policy's anytime they wan't to. Molyneux, Microsoft deserved every once of backlash.
you obviously havent heard of steam online gaming should i got on just go somewhere


I've heard of Steam. Just as zredstarv2 put (which was one of the best descriptions I have ever heard about DRM), you own none of those games. You pay to use the license to play the games, but you own none of them. Until they create laws that protect the consumer for these types of things, I will forever disagree with DRM. Valve can cancel your Steam subscription for any reason they want and you will have zero say so in the matter, which you would lose your games as well. That is a major problem (whether or not Valve will or has ever done that matters not.)


Except the only reason they would ever cancel your subscription is if break the rules. So modding,boosting, and hacking. I know this is what this website is founded on so I doubt most people on here will agree. If you do any of those things then you deserve to lose your stuff.


It's the fact they have the power to do so without reimbursing you and without any legal issues. And no, I don't deserve to lose my games if I mod or cheat. I deserve to lose my online privileges, but not my games. That would be like Hasbro wanting their board game back if I am caught cheating. If I pay for a game, I should have every right to play it when and where I want. I also have every right to mod the game since I own it (and I hate modding.) It's taken those mods online that is unacceptable.

MPAAPosted:

There was nothing unfair about the backlash, at all. What is unfair however, is all the fools who fall for the DRM gift-wrapped.

DRM in a nutshell, does away with your first sale rights and turns anything you buy into phone-home rentware. Nothing good about that AT ALL.


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