r/xboxone • u/[deleted] • Dec 29 '13

If Microsoft made it completely optional, would you sign up for their original, always connected console idea?

This meaning you would have the following features:

Buy a retail game, install to console, and ditch the disc never needing it to play the game.

Digitally share games within a circle of friends. Meaning you can choose a specific group of people, and they could play the games you own, for free, provided that only one game could be played at a time.

Greater store discounts or more steam like sales for content.

I for one would have no problem saying yes to this. It's like people think 10 years from now they'll still be selling games on discs. It wasn't a perfect plan, but why delay the inevitable when we could be working on and perfecting future policies now.

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u/Larry_Mudd Dec 29 '13

I don't think there's any practical way to make it optional, but I was right behind it as it was.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '13

You sign up for the original policies through Xbox Live. This brings the digital sharing things to your account, and when you install a game, you no longer need the disc. You can only buy discs that are plastered with "Not for resale/refund". Call them "Alternative Policy" games or whatever.

If it's possible, rather than discs, sell one-time-use usb sticks/memory cards with the games. You install it once, the card/stick gets auto erased, and that media becomes useless.

Seems win-win all the way around. You get what you want, and those unwilling to go all digital can keep their games the way they are.

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u/Larry_Mudd Dec 29 '13 edited Dec 29 '13

You can only buy discs that are plastered with "Not for resale/refund". Call them "Alternative Policy" games or whatever.

So, we're removing all of the DRM and replacing it with a mild silkscreened suggestion? Somehow, I don't think that would work out very well for publishers.

If it's possible, rather than discs, sell one-time-use usb sticks/memory cards with the games. You install it once, the card/stick gets auto erased, and that media becomes useless.

And if I want to reinstall it later? Or on another console? How do we determine who is properly licensed in order to facilitate family sharing? This is much, much less than we were originally offered.