{"id":10103,"date":"2022-05-10T11:44:33","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T10:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/microsofts-dodgy-drm-comes-into-the-limelight-and-no-ones-smiling\/"},"modified":"2022-05-10T11:44:33","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T10:44:33","slug":"microsofts-dodgy-drm-comes-into-the-limelight-and-no-ones-smiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/microsofts-dodgy-drm-comes-into-the-limelight-and-no-ones-smiling\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft&#8217;s dodgy DRM comes into the limelight, and no-one&#8217;s smiling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\nIf it feels like a long time since the disastrous reveal of the Xbox One, it&#8217;s because it really has been. Some nine years have passed since those tumultuous months leading up to the launch of Microsoft&#8217;s troubled console, when the mantra of <em>television, television, television<\/em> was followed up by some half-hearted concessions to games, and the slow pull into focus of a then novel and unsavoury approach to game ownership that were met with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/microsoft-kills-game-ownership-and-expects-us-to-smile\">an understandably fiery response<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFor most of those nine years it felt like Microsoft was making amends for those short but oh-so-damaging months; the official response to the outcry that met its grim stance on ownership was swift, but the overarching change in direction that seemed necessary at the time was always going to take so much longer.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe assured stewardship of Phil Spencer, the powerhouse that is the Series X, the more diminutive but just as appealing Series S and the success story that is Game Pass combined made it feel like Microsoft turned a corner, but a weekend of spotty service suggests elements of old issues still need to be resolved.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/microsofts-dodgy-drm-comes-into-the-limelight-and-no-ones-smiling\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source &#8211; eurogamer.net<\/p>\n<p>All content and images belong to their respected owners. 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