Following Sony’s crowd-pleasing announcement that its upcoming PS4 gaming console will not require the user to constantly be online, one might have hoped that Microsoft would ease up on that continually connected model for its Xbox One device. But no, the company is sticking to its guns, basically telling anyone concerned about this issue to kiss off.
It's strange how a company so disconnected with the rest of the world could be so profitable.
It's really just a matter of time. With both my computer-semi-literate boyfriend and computer illiterate bosses switching to new computers with Windows 8 pre-installed, both have made comments that they wish they had just got a mac. with the windows 8 phones severely under performing, this complete and utter blunder regarding the xbox, and the fact that they can't seem to open their eyes to what the public is looking for these days, they'll be that thing we looked back on with nostalgia in 10~15 years.
Given the options I've seriously been considering running Ubuntu instead of anything else. We'll see, still have Windows 7 which I have no problems with.
or test it out on an old/spare PC you have sitting around, like some of us do. Repartitioning the drive of your main personal machine can be a bit of an investment. Also worth looking in to: Linux Mint, technically the same as Ubuntu but with a different front end.
The onle reason for the online check in every 24 hours is so that you can install games from a disc, and never have to use the disc again. You could install games on 360 too, and it would run from the HDD, but the game still had to be in the drive to play for verification purposes. But since people demanded not having to do that, it needs to call in once every 24hrs to make sure your game wasn't installed on multiple consoles. It makes sense, but there had to have been a better way to handle that. It is a nice feature, not having to ever change discs and just run it from your console, but at the requirement of being an online only console for the most part it seems kind of a silly burden for that minor perk.