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A group of fans have launched a petition requesting Microsoft restore the Xbox One to its originally intended state, reports IGN. The petition was organized on Change.org – an online platform for users to enact social change – and has already accumulated some 15,000 signatures at the time of this writing.

The organizer, David Fontenot, began the campaign just over three weeks ago in the wake of Microsoft’s reversal on its announced policies regarding DRM and the Xbox One’s ‘always online’ state. In what’s got to be the most literal application of the phrase, “you can’t please everyone,” Fontenot describes his reasoning for the petition.

This was to be the future of entertainment. 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.

He closes the plea by stating, “We want this back. It can’t be all or nothing, there must be a compromise.” The petition is currently just shy of the remaining 10,000 signatures needed, though what happens then, is up to Microsoft.

Source: Change.org via IGN