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Want To Record Xbox One Gameplay? Get Ready To Pay

Posted by timothy on from the nobody-rides-for-free dept.

First time accepted submitter tocsy writes "Microsoft has seemingly not learned from their previous PR fiasco. According to the official site, some features as basic as recording and sharing gameplay videos will require a $60/year Xbox Live Gold account. PS4 owners will of course also have to pay for some online services, but recording and streaming will not be exclusive to Plus subscribers."

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  1. Nothing to see here by 0x15e · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is it really news that MS is requiring people to have a Gold account to use online features of an Xbox console? There's nothing going on here that wasn't already going on with the Xbox 360 ... except of course stirring up some more MS / Xbox One hate.

    1. Re:Nothing to see here by sl3xd · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I'd mod you up if I could.

      Xbox Live Gold is required for everything except downloading patches. It sounds like a fanboi who really knows nothing about the Xbox is proving his ignorance/making an ass of himeself.

      There's nothing new here; the Xbox Live Gold has been a thing since the original Xbox.

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  2. Re:Good luck with that by alen · · Score: 4, Insightful

    why would i buy this compared to paying for 5 years of x box live?

    some of you people are crazy. spend lots of money to bypass some feature that costs less than the workaround

  3. Re: Good luck with that by alen · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's called upselling

    Red hat and all the open source companies do it as well. And google

  4. Re:Microsoft? No MBASoft by OhANameWhatName · · Score: 3, Insightful
    I like the point you're making, it's very true. Not every 'saving' is really a saving.

    Would people abandon the console for a mobile device

    But this is so much more true. The 'gaming console' era is nearing the end of it's teather. People are sick of the pump and dump shoot by wire FPS rubbish which has been churned out for the last 10 years. Couple this with mobile gaming devices that are powerful enough and full of fun (if not graphtastic) cheap games using effective intuitive controls along with simple effective PC gaming that moves SSSOOOOO much faster that and you've got the death of the loungeroom gaming device.

    I don't think it's that the MS beancounters are necessarily killing the platform. But unfortunately, nobody is reviving the platform. There's little to encourage people to desire these expensive, inflexible and nonsensical devices in the face of so much change. The XBOX 1 market is essentially the XBOX 360 market, only smaller.

    Until the beancounters face up to the need for massive change, aint nothing gonna keep this dead duck breathing.

  5. Re: Good luck with that by Patch86 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I always thought the main point of HDCP was to prevent precious Hollywood movies leaking out of DVD land and on to Torrent. It only takes one determined hacker to render that purpose useless, even if you have (bonus!) managed to make millions of innocent users' lives more difficult in the process.

    But then that's the DRM story all over, isn't it.