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Originally Posted by Obzen
You can always put the xbox on a power strip and turn it off. Then its dead and can't do anything.
It's totally stupid that you'd have to but its an option.
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The first part of your response ("It's totally stupid...") is why that shouldn't have to be the way to accomplish it. A person shouldn't have to pull the plug out of the outlet just to ensure that they're not being spied on. That's not even my biggest gripe.
the real biggest gripe is them telling me what I can and cannot do with something I paid good money for at a system level. If the developers want to do that, again, that's fine. I can choose not to buy their games. But when the system developers do it, it begins to severely limit your options. If the PS3/4 wasn't around and the game wasn't available on the Wii U, well then you're basically out of gaming all together.
That shouldn't be the case. Look at it like a DVD/blu ray player, the disc may require you to have an online connection to get access to some secondary, not related to the main content, but the DVD/blu ray player doesn't physically prevent you from watching the movie nor does it require you to download the movie to the console. You can also buy and trade/borrow/rent those discs to friends and the movie studio/dvd manufacturer don't get a cut. It's my property. I will do with it what I want.