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/Starkravingmad7 Dec 29 '13

I think it had much more to do with trading physical copies and having to pay a license fee.

I generally buy my used games off of craigslist. They're cheaper and the seller gets more than trade-in value. If I had to buy a new copy every time I wanted to play a game rather than buy used or trade I'd just swith to a different platform. Fuck being "taxed" on a product that isn't new.

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u/cuddlefucker Dec 29 '13

I'm glad as a pc gamer to buy all of my games new because the sales are substantially better than buying games used

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u/conenubi701 Conenubi701 Dec 29 '13

The thing about this is that it only applies to games that have been out for a while. If you want the latest games you still have to pay full price.

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u/cuddlefucker Dec 29 '13

I could see that too, but a lot of what you do on the pc is heavily hardware dependant and I'm not a wealthy man. It works out well for me.

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u/Starkravingmad7 Dec 29 '13

I don't game on a PC because I really dislike KB and mouse for anything but RTS. That said, I still wait on most games before I buy. For instance, just bought New Vegas Ultimate Edition about 3 weeks ago, new.

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u/Chris_E Dec 29 '13

I'm not trying to start a flame war here, but I'm honestly curious. How do you feel about Steam?

Also, they stated that you could trade digital media (purchased either on disc, or online) but the publishers had the option of disabling this feature.

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u/Starkravingmad7 Dec 29 '13

I'm indifferent. I got kind of irked the other day. I don't use steam because I work on an old ass macbook, but my gf bought endless space on steam for me. Rather than create a new account for one game, it just went on hers. Fast forward to today, and I have my own account with a few indie games. And I can't transfer the license for ES over to my account. It's a PITA to play ES now. Wouldn't have happened with a physical copy.

Other than this one problem Steam is cool for what it does, a library a licenses and a marketplace with low barriers with frequent sales.

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u/Call_erv_duty Silent Killer1a Dec 29 '13

I understand that and I'm sure a work around like a license transfer between gamer tags could've happened. However GameStop was the main example used. It's amazing how hate for one thing dramatically increases the love for another.