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AlderaanDuran · 4184 days ago · link · · parent · post: Microsoft Exec: If You Don’t Want To Always Be Online, Keep Playing Xbox 360
The onle reason for the online check in every 24 hours is so that you can install games from a disc, and never have to use the disc again. You could install games on 360 too, and it would run from the HDD, but the game still had to be in the drive to play for verification purposes. But since people demanded not having to do that, it needs to call in once every 24hrs to make sure your game wasn't installed on multiple consoles. It makes sense, but there had to have been a better way to handle that. It is a nice feature, not having to ever change discs and just run it from your console, but at the requirement of being an online only console for the most part it seems kind of a silly burden for that minor perk.