After the news yesterday regarding the removal of DRM, today the House of Redmond wanted to disclose some details about it. Microsoft had stated in the press release that the return to the "classic model" would have involved the loss of some of the things advertised in the past, these include the digital sharing and sharing. Then you will not be able to share with nine other users put into our friends list its library of games.

As he wanted to offer us Microsoft, each player would be able to share your collection with friends: in the sense that being at home we could play games with a friend of ours and this would agree with nine friends to buy different titles by playing a round.

After protests from fans, Microsoft wanted meet cancelling definitively these new features.

In conclusion, the sharing of games will work as happens today, sharing the disk, and instead downloaded titles will not be shared or resold.

Also the VP of Xbox Live, Marc Whitten wanted to intervene by declaring that there are some things that will not be able to offer due to the change in our policy on DRM and one of these was " bring my games with me "; We must bring the disc to us if we would like to share it with someone.  Also installing games on hard drive will remain necessary even if we keep the disc in the drive in order to play.

However there is to focus on one thing: If we recall the old consoles such as the Xbox, to start a game it was enough to put the physical media in the machine to start and start playing. By accessing the Dashboard you can control few functions such as the data on the memory card and any other setting. Moving on to the Xbox 360, with the inserted disc we could handle many more things like group chat, multiplayer games, downloads in the background, try the demo versions of the games, watch a trailer, purchase securities in digital delivery and much more. All this marked various breakthroughs in transition from one generation to the next. However, the obligation was always to have the disc inside the console, or a multiplayer game, for example, could not be arranged.

With Xbox One, on the other hand, Microsoft offered us the possibility to easily arrange many other things including multiplayer matches for a specific game already installed or shared but is no longer present "physically" in the console. We could buy a game, install it, tie it to our Xbox Live account and even then throw the disc. Now, however, the various operations are relevant only to the disk that we have in the console.

This will however not for games purchased digitally which can be played on any console obviously by connecting with your profile.

Microsoft concludes, therefore, that we can do with Xbox One exactly what we did with the Xbox 360.

We are sure that there is only one usual fear towards "the novelty"?

Reflection:

It is true that " those who leave the old road to the new sa what leaves do not know what is ..." It is clear that if you take a new road we do not know with certainty what we encounter, but the solution that this saying suggests, not to abandon the old streets, would prevent any progress.

Certainly no steps backward, but at this point how many steps forward?