Xbox engineer reveals Microsoft?s true intentions with DRM on the Xbox One

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Xbox engineer reveals Microsoft's true intentions with DRM on the Xbox One - VR-Zone

The thing is we suck at telling the story. The whole point of the DRM switch from disc based to cloud based is to kill disc swapping, scratched discs, bringing discs to friends house, trade-ins for **** value with nothign going back to developers, and high game costs. If you want games cheaper then 59.99, you have to limit used games somehow. Steam?s model requires a limited used game model...

Everyone and their mother complains about how gamestop ****s them on their trade ins, getting 5$ for their used games. We come in trying to find a way to take money out of gamestop, and put some in developers and get you possibly cheaper games and everyone bitches at MS. Well, if you want the @#$@ing from Gamestop, go play PS4...

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.... I'm not surprised.

 

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But it's quite logic they will have more money so they can put their prices down and then they will sell more games and have even more profit with lower prices than now