Microsoft's Xbox One.
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At least one Microsoft employee — or somebody posing as one — is none too happy with the company’s about-face on the Xbox One.
In an anonymous Pastebin post on Thursday, a self-dubbed “heartbroken MS employee” vented on Microsoft’s decision to remove at least two of the more controversial features in the Xbox One. On Wednesday, Microsoft announced that it would jettison the requirement that the Xbox One connect to the Internet. The company also said it would loosen the restrictions on used game sales.
In response, the Pastebin poster tried to highlight the vision behind the Xbox One to explain why getting rid of those features lessens the impact of the upcoming new console.
Touting the social benefits of a connected Xbox One, the poster pointed to Family Sharing as one cool, new feature. Family Sharing would have allowed an Xbox One user to share their online Xbox One titles with another person anywhere in the world. But rather than the full game, the shared version would be a demo of the full game designed to expire after a certain amoun… [Read more]
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