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Originally Posted by Igottago
I find it interesting that online streaming music services haven't had a similar backlash. You need to be online to access your music collection (unless you download them for later listening). If your internet connection goes down, you can't access all the music you pay for. Interestingly enough this has prevented me from subscribing to these services, as I prefer to have all my music accessible regardless of online/internet availability.
The xbox one is hardly the first "always online" service and it definitely won't be the last. I think this is the future.
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That is the key though, even these online streaming services allow you to Sync the songs to your device for offline listening and they don't make you check back in online to access the songs.
People don't really have an issue with "always online" when it makes sense. The issue they have is that they can't even play an offline, single player game, without connecting every 24 hours.
Personally not a huge deal for me (I've already pre-ordered) but I can understand why this is such a bad PR story, especially when you combine it with all the used game restrictions.