By: Ankit Gupta

Ankit Gupta — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 04:30:00 +0000

In reply to Ian Crick. >Ian, Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I completely agree with you, 24 hours restrictions should be stretched to may be 15 days or a month. I am sure Microsoft would listen to this when Xbox One go live.

By: Ian Crick

Ian Crick — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 02:20:00 +0000

I have the original Xbox, PlayStations 1 & 2 and my PC’s and Even if I had the chance and money to purchase one of the new Xbox’s, I wouldn’t touch one with this type of stupid idea’s incorporated. My Xbox is years old and works just as good now, as when I purchased it, but what happens when MS’s servers go down or the decide to bring a new version out and stop support for the Xbox One. I think if you purchase a product it’s yours and you should not be told when and how often to connect it to the internet. I know quite a lot of people who take holidays and take their games consoles with them, but this would stop them. Software should check for updates and things, as and when you are connected to the internet and if this is one day or after 6 months, it’s your choice. To make sure a game is not an illegal copy it could check the internet when installed and the only other time it should check is when installing updates.

It might be me, but I think this is one massive mistake Microsoft is making and think they are either going to have to change this from 24hrs to weekly, monthly or just as and when there is an internet connection or lose quite a lot of sales.

In our house if the kids are causing problems I disconnect the internet from their rooms, to stop social networking and general internet access, but they still stay in their rooms playing games. If others are like me, the kids will riot.

Sorry for the rant, but I think this cloud and internet checking on your products all the time is now getting beyond a joke.

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