Fans of Microsoft's Xbox One have started an online petition to try and get the company to re-reverse its policies on game sharing following the backlash the next generation console received after its official unveiling at this year's E3.
In a petition on change.org, organizer David Fontenot asks Microsoft to "give us back the Xbox One we were promised at E3.
"This was to be the future of entertainment," the petition says. "A new wave of gaming where you could buy games digitally, then trade, share or sell those digital licenses. Essentially, it was Steam for Xbox. But consumers were uninformed, and railed against it, and it was taken away because Sony took advantage of consumers uncertainty. We want this back. It can't be all or nothing, there must be a compromise."
The policies that the petition creator is talking about are the Xbox One's requirements that included having to check in ever 24 hours and restrictions for lending used games and more. At its E3 press event, Microsoft kept a lot of specifics about the Xbox One secret and focused on games and the Kinect's new motion control features. When it finally unveiled its restriction policies, gamers were not thrilled. As mentioned in the petition, Sony took that opportunity to capitalize on user's reactions and highlight its lack of restrictions, allowing Sony to win a huge PR victory.
Those among the current 20,286 who have sign the petition feel the company has backpedaled too much and that the restrictions were a benchmark for the future of gaming. Meanwhile, critics still think the Xbox One's reversal of its restriction policies was the best PR move it could have made.
Tell us what you think. Should the Xbox One have reversed its policies and offered less innovation but more convenience or should it stick to its guns and set the tone for the future of gaming? Tell us in the comments below.
