While a persistent connection is not required, Xbox One is designed to verify if system, application or game updates are needed and to see if you have acquired new games, or resold, traded in, or given your game to a friend. Games that are designed to take advantage of the cloud may require a connection.

With Xbox One you can game offline for up to 24 hours on your primary console, or one hour if you are logged on to a separate console accessing your library. Offline gaming is not possible after these prescribed times until you re-establish a connection, but you can still watch live TV and enjoy Blu-ray and DVD movies.

Give your games to friends: Xbox One is designed so game publishers can enable you to give your disc-based games to your friends. There are no fees charged as part of these transfers. There are two requirements: you can only give them to people who have been on your friends list for at least 30 days and each game can only be given once.

Trade-in and resell your disc-based games: Today, some gamers choose to sell their old disc-based games back for cash and credit. We designed Xbox One so game publishers can enable you to trade in your games at participating retailers. Microsoft does not charge a platform fee to retailers, publishers, or consumers for enabling transfer of these games.

GG Microsoft.

GG Microsoft. You fucked up this generation. It is now back to Sony vs Nintendo.

Sony will now implement near identical used games measures. The issue is being forced by EA, Activision and Ubisoft, with MS caving to their demands, it only makes their position against Sony stronger (That's if Sony hasn't already caved and just haven't announced it yet.)

1.) People freaked out when the PS3 dropped backwards compatibility, it was and remains really stupid. I don't like having to move my huge-ass HDTV and fiddle around with a fuckload of cables to swap from playing Viewtiful Joe to Skullgirls. I think that holds true of most people.

2.) Wanting to be able to play regular offline games without having an internet connection is entitlement? LOL.

3.) Wanting to be able to take a physical game to a friend's house is entitlement? LOL.

2) You have an allotted time just like Steam. Plus what happens when someone buys an MMO and it doesn't have a single player mode? I remember when everyone who I told about an MMO I was playing thought I was an idiot for paying monthly for a game I just bought that required an online connection. It soon came to be accepted. Are people entitled to an offline mode in MMOs? If they want you to be online so they can improve your experience then I say let them try. I dunno about whether it's something I'm gonna but yet but I think there's definitely another side to what you're saying.

3) You can still take a physical game to a friend's house and play it. Being logged in is something you'd still need to do by taking a Live Arcade game to your friend's house on a USB stick. Or if you want to show your friend a game on Steam, you gotta be online and verify it. It's the same principle.