GameStop 'applauds Microsoft' for Xbox One DRM revision
Microsoft today announced the complete withdrawal of the Xbox One's controversial restrictions on used games and the requirement of an internet connection for license checks once every 24 hours.
"GameStop welcomes today's announcement from Microsoft about changes in functionality for its next-generation console, the Xbox One," said a GameStop rep in an official statement to Polygon in response to the announcement.
"This is great news for gamers and we applaud Microsoft for understanding consumers and the importance of the pre-owned market," they added.
The console's previously proposed DRM measures would have restricted the sale of used games between gamers, and would allegedly have saw Microsoft and publishers take a cut of profits made from used game sales at retail. This would have had huge implications for major organizations like GameStop, which rely heavily on profits from the used games market.
But GameStop had said in May that it would commit to support of Xbox One despite used game policy concerns. "I think what is important to note is that all three of the console companies that have launched have now come back and they say, 'I realise the value of the buy-sell-trade model,' and they have built that into their new consoles moving forward," said GameStop president Tony Bartel at the time.
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SeanR917Posted:
Id applause them as well becuase they were getting smashed by ps4 know i think xbox will take the lead again :)
PlusnetPosted:
slapshot101 What would GameStop's comments be now if they change it back?
They probably wouldn't care.
LichPosted:
Monster-Munch They can change it back.
If they did that would make things look bad at Microsoft.
Fuzzeh_XPosted:
MicroSonyPCYea and no one wanted to buy a PS3 because of that price that excuse is SO invalid.wokThisIs50 This is great news! I am so happy now. Microsoft is probably getting there customers back!
They will win back a fair few, but xbox still has too many flaws, price is crazy, they took away shared games libary, and microsoft just keeps releasing good news, but then spoiling it with bad news, where as ps4 are not.
PS3 was $600 when it came out, stop acting like $500 is an outrageous price, especially when it comes with more things than a PS4
TylerPosted:
PS4 is still winning in my mind over the Xbox one, I think the Xbox one still has time to regain itself, but they lost a lot of their fanbase with the no game sharing announcement and people have already pre-ordered the PS4 instead.
MicroSonyPCPosted:
wokThisIs50 This is great news! I am so happy now. Microsoft is probably getting there customers back!
They will win back a fair few, but xbox still has too many flaws, price is crazy, they took away shared games libary, and microsoft just keeps releasing good news, but then spoiling it with bad news, where as ps4 are not.
PS3 was $600 when it came out, stop acting like $500 is an outrageous price, especially when it comes with more things than a PS4
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