Sometimes I bring my disk from my XBox to a friends house, and play the game on their XBox. With this new "XBox One" console, I will be completely unable to do this. I'll have to tote my xbox around. Of course they will be calling it "buying a game" even though users don't own it in any sense of the word. This progression will eventually lead to "Press 'A' to spend 0.01 cents to leap over this special exclusive objective for an exclusive serotonin release."
I will be going out of my way to make sure I do not buy anything produced by Microsoft ever again, operating systems, consoles, software, etc. We are losing control of our computers. These computers will become a part of us one day, we must preserve our ownership of the metal on up through the software to the right to own and use the software itself. This is important.
I fear the day when we are all just extensions of the mothership, when the system decides you are out of line, the human slaves are simply a "thin client", they just press a button, and your entire life folds up and disappears, and resources are administered to another area. Buyers are losing their RIGHTS here. It's boiling a frog slowly. Soon we won't be able to own anything.
Or you could presumably log in to your Live account on their XBox, play the game while you're visiting, and then log out? Has the added advantage of continuing to save achievements to your account, giving access to savegames if you want them, etc.
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Sometimes I bring my disk from my XBox to a friends house, and play the game on their XBox. With this new "XBox One" console, I will be completely unable to do this. I'll have to tote my xbox around. Of course they will be calling it "buying a game" even though users don't own it in any sense of the word. This progression will eventually lead to "Press 'A' to spend 0.01 cents to leap over this special exclusive objective for an exclusive serotonin release."
I will be going out of my way to make sure I do not buy anything produced by Microsoft ever again, operating systems, consoles, software, etc. We are losing control of our computers. These computers will become a part of us one day, we must preserve our ownership of the metal on up through the software to the right to own and use the software itself. This is important.
I fear the day when we are all just extensions of the mothership, when the system decides you are out of line, the human slaves are simply a "thin client", they just press a button, and your entire life folds up and disappears, and resources are administered to another area. Buyers are losing their RIGHTS here. It's boiling a frog slowly. Soon we won't be able to own anything.
Or you could presumably log in to your Live account on their XBox, play the game while you're visiting, and then log out? Has the added advantage of continuing to save achievements to your account, giving access to savegames if you want them, etc.
Your last paragraph is especially funny. Are you on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn, by any chance?