Microsoft Engineer Explains DRM Reasoning

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It's all too vague but what I am seeing is that if you deactivate a game the problem comes from the eventual buyer, they still have to buy the game under Microsofts terms not the seller. So that was what I was going on about based on my understanding, I could be wrong too who the hell knows.

If you could just deactivate it and then sell it under your own terms I don't think the outlash would be as bad.

Yeah. I plan on getting one, won't be at launch since my time and money will be spent on the house we're getting in 2 weeks (knowing my wife we'll still be making it our own come November LOL). I see what they're trying to do this gen and if they'd just explained it better going in the backlash wouldn't be near as bad IMO. The fact of the matter is, if you wanna go with full installs, no disc required, there has to be some form of protection for the devs, otherwise what's stopping me and 5 friends from going $10/each on the latest game, I collect the money, buy the game, install on my box, then give the disc to the other 5 guys to install on their consoles? The devs just lost money from 5 sales in that case.

I do hope they drop the 24 hour checkin, at least for multiplayer, leave the SP alone...