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Originally Posted by Obzen
Out of curiosity do you play with no Internet?
Also the publishers still have every right to block used sales of their games by requiring codes. Just because Sony isn't doing it at the system level doesn't mean it won't still happen.
You know your phone, computer, and you Camaro can spy on you. Not saying its right as its definitely not. Just sayin.
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Yes, where I live the internet isn't 100% on all the time. So I do a fair amount of gaming offline.
I have no problem with the DEVELOPERS limiting access. However, I take the stance that I am buying a game, not a license to play the game. I liken it to a car. When you buy the car, or phone, or hell almost any other product that isn't software, you can do whatever you want with it and the original manufacturer doesn't get a cut.
Can the argument be made that developer should get a cut of used game sales? yes. Is that the argument I'm making? No.
Yes, my phone and computer and camaro can "spy" on me...there's a difference though, I can set up my own safeguards and systems in place to protect myself from that. You can't do that with consoles. For example, I can limit what information is on my phone and power my phone off at night and it can't be turned on remotely, I can place a sticker over the camera lens and it won't affect the use of the phone. I can power my computer off and its no longer a danger, I can cover any integrated cameras and I can physically remove the integrated microphone with no damage to the computer. You do any of that on the XB1 and it basically becomes a brick.
The "low power use" mode could be used to find a way to remote power on and then you have a camera and microphone sitting in your living room/game room watching and there's no way to know if the system has been compromised.
Just look at the outrage over what the NSA is doing. Just because companies WANT to do it doesn't mean you should just let them.