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Always Online while at home. But what about when we do HERBIE 2? How can we do offline strategery? What about traveling?

Just look at the past couple weeks where people have had problems connecting to XBL. At least now you can still play. Next year, you won't even be able to do that.

Or those times when a game is patched to remove an exploit or patched to increase the difficulty on something? You can't play it pre-patch anymore.

or worse yet... what about patches that break the game? I can think of a few that deleted save files... no more getting the news out and playing offline until it's fixed.

Which is not exactly what he said, and completely conflicting Major Nelson's statement of anyone on first machine, you on all machines.

Adam Sessler's question was if the game was tied only to that machine, and you had to play to play on a second. Not if anyone on said machine could play it.

Don't know why anyone trusts Major Nelson anyway, he was one of the ones stating when the HDMI 360 was rumored that "we wouldn't do that to our installed base" which...

as it turned out and a week after I bought a replacement 360 turned out to be complete bullshit.

He specifically asked Hardware or Profile, and it was stated Profile. Anyone can play it in your household on your profile. But not anyone on your hardware.

http://www.polygon.com/2013/5/22/4354646/xbox-live-gold-memberships-apply-to-both-xbox-one-and-360

Account and profile have new meanings now. I am curious what the multiple devices will work in this scenario.

For the TL:DR crowd, all Live Accounts will be family plans, with each gamertag a profile. DRM is attached to account.

Interstetting. I wonder how difficult it will be to merge accounts then going forward for those of us with multi-gold households.

Would it be possible for Toddy, Mummy, Hobbs, and the Green ninja all live in the same household?

As long as the wives and daughters were excluded... Yes.

...interesting Futiles... and yeah wondering as well, especially since Win8 logons are tied to your MS account as well...

Well, with the new lexicography, Win8 are tied to you MS account and your Live Profile. Which is then associated to a LIVE account.