Xbox One Microsoft may remove XBOX live restriction for Netflix.

[sammed92]

Hello Xbox users!

Those who are fan of Netflix and spend hundreds of hours on netflix on Xbox, you might be hating to have Xbox live to watch netflix. Potentially, Microsoft is breaking down the paywall requirement for the Netflix app on the Xbox One.

Cheers!

 

[Abqu]

And everyone in the world shouted, "It's about time". I don't know why this restriction was ever in place to begin with, especially with Xbox marketed as an entertainment device and not just a gaming console.

 

[sc_shark]

why thats great it reaches beyond netflix.

apps like, hulu plus, amazon, (not on xbl)pandora and other apps should be released as well..

it makes sense to have interest/control on apps that are microsoft.. nfl, microsoft music,movies, skype,wwe since they are holding the rights to the apps and providing the support.

but the next hurdle in this battle will be one that stems from microsoft washing its hands of those apps. the support itself.. remember the issues netflix was havng with the xb1 for a month or so.. it ended up being a netcode glitch/error on microsofts end. now its going to take netflix to figure it out and show microsoft the issue and how it needs to be fixed.. its not going to be microsoft saying oh we have an issue lets fix it.

i am not against it bundled in with xblive or under the pay wall. most everything we do on xb1/360 requires live at this point.. and microsoft does a killer job on servers,network stability and general support. the last thing i want them to do is washing their hands from the big apps and not supporting them as much.. because really its not their baby they ae not making a dime of it and i wouldnt feel bad if they dont trouble shoot it for the owner..
this would also translate to new apps.. microsoft has a killer team of smart people.. when an app hits you want stability and the ability to troubleshoot.. the developers at microsoft know the system and how it works and can figure out issues.. so apps like time warner cable and others mght want the support but since you have ot pay for it microsoft may say we wont support it past allowing it on the system..

 

[FosterTXT]

Another Microsoft rip off we don't have to deal with. Slowly but surely the users will weed out all the unfairness Microsoft forces on it's customers. Microsoft always does this. They see who will buy in to there scams at launch and slowly adapt for everyone else who sees there practices as unfair.

 

[sc_shark]

Another Microsoft rip off we don't have to deal with. Slowly but surely the users will weed out all the unfairness Microsoft forces on it's customers. Microsoft always does this. They see who will buy in to there scams at launch and slowly adapt for everyone else who sees there practices as unfair.

honestly whats the difference if you get netflix and such for free... you still need live for xblive downloads and multiplayer gaming.. and i would rather pay microsoft for server/stability that actually works than rely on publishers to give us good/great servers..

look at bf4 and all the issues.. the rubberbanding was a netowrk/server issue on ea's part nothing was on microsofts. ea updated to faster servers and now the game runs good. if ea had launched on microsoft servers the issue would have been gone from the start..

you can get live for 30-40 bux on amazon/ebay for 12 months thats like 5-10bux a month which is nothing.. i piss away that amount.