Two major features of Microsoft’s next-generation console are dropped by the company. These are regular online authenticity checks required to play video games offline and restrictions on what players can do with games after purchase. Microsoft says, in an update issued Wednesday, the shift in Xbox One policy stems from consumer feedback. “While we believe that the majority of people will play games online and access the cloud for both games and entertainment, we will give consumers the choice of both physical and digital content,” Don Mattrick, president of Microsoft’s Interactive entertainment business, said in a statement. “We have listened and we have heard loud and clear from your feedback that you want the best of both worlds.”

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2. Two major features of Microsoft’s next-generation console are
dropped by the company. These are regular online authenticity checks
required to play video games offline and restrictions on what players
can do with games after purchase.
Microsoft says, in an update issued Wednesday, the shift in Xbox One
policy stems from consumer feedback.
“While we believe that the majority of people will play games online
and access the cloud for both games and entertainment, we will give
consumers the choice of both physical and digital content,”
Don Mattrick, president of Microsoft’s Interactive entertainment
business, said in a statement. “We have listened and we have heard
loud and clear from your feedback that you want the best of both
worlds.”
The Microsoft statement says no internet connection will be required
to play any Xbox One game. Also, avenues for trading, renting, lending
or selling purchased games will remain as they are today with the Xbox
360.

3. Microsoft outlined how its Xbox One would function when it launches
this November for $499; this move marks a full turn for Microsoft from
several weeks ago. In earlier statements, Microsoft said users would
have to check in online every 24 hours to play any games offline.
Microsoft also planned the inability to rent or lend games at launch as
limits to how games were used.
Sony, a well-known rival will be launching its PlayStation 4 this holiday,
the options provoked harsh criticism from them. Sony Computer
Entertainment of America President Jack Tretton emphatically
proclaimed during a press conference at last week’s Electronic
Entertainment Expo that the PS4 would not restrict games or require
routine online checks.
“You told us how much you loved the flexibility you have today with
games delivered on disc,” Mattrick said. “The ability to lend, share, and
resell these games at your discretion is of incredible importance to
you.”

4. Nonetheless, the Family option to share a games library with as many
as 10 other people for example will be shelved due to Microsoft’s
reversal of many features planned for Xbox One
Consumer feedback led to the changes, Marc Whitten, chief product
officer for Microsoft’s interactive entertainment business, said in a
telephone interview after the update was issued. “They tell us what
they love about what we are doing and when we are doing something
they don’t like, they tell us, too,” he said.
As it stood, some consumers saw the Xbox One as “a highly restricted
system,” said DFC Intelligence analyst David Cole. “The idea of online
connectivity is bad from a personal usage perspective. For example,
many potential consumers are mobile college students or young kids
being shuffled between parents. Having to always have their system
connected is a major pain.”