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DF Direct Weekly talks Nintendo’s next-gen challenges and the big Xbox gaming outage
DF Direct Weekly talks Nintendo’s next-gen challenges and the big Xbox gaming outage
We’ve been talking/warning about it for a long time – usually in the context of game preservation – but the recent Xbox game outage has certainly justified our concerns. Online DRM, the need to have an active internet connection to verify that you’re permitted to play the games you own, has been a hot topic for some time now. There’ll come a point in the (hopefully) far-flung future that authentication servers won’t be available, making today’s games unplayable. What we didn’t quite expect was a gaming black-out in the here and now.
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